Codemasters grabs SEGA Racing Studio Comments by Robert Purchese

Welcome to the collective. Good news for the talent in SRS. I wonder if the admin crew are as lucky?

Smart move of Codemasters there.

I dont know what to laugh at first ;)

Sweet! good for those poor empoyees at least!

so they brought back their old freinds?

heh :)

Good stuff.

Now get Sumo Digital making an all formats Daytona USA 2009.

Great news. Sega Rally was brilliant!

Fantastic news, was gutted when I learnt that SEGA was dropping them, the fools...

Nice... good for the guys.

Wonder what they'll do with the Colin McRae franchise.

After Sega shut the studio down I was thinking how Sony should have re-hired them all and got them to work on bringing a new Rollcage and/or Speed Freaks to the PS3. Anyway, good news for them and a smart move by Codies.

PLEASE CODEMASTERS, LET THEM MAKE A PROPER SIM - NOT ANOTHER ARCADE RACER

This should be the very definition of ironic.

It's like the big bubble in The Prisoner.

I am not a number - I'm a free man.

Roll on DiRT 2 with deformable terrain! Now, please!

Sad news turns into glad. Great stuff.

Good to hear those devs got employment. Sega rally, although not my cup of tea, was very competent.

+1 for the McRae comment. Bring back proper rally games!

Since his death, will there even be any more McRae games? I suppose it depends how many games he had signed up to endorse, and whether his family will want to continue to licence his name out now.

Great, Codemasters, probably the only major company left that still uses the PC destroying Starforce protection :(

Not too pleased about this myself actually.

Really really used to like Codies, but their recent stuff has either been complete shit (Turning Point, Jericho, Emergency Mayhem), or disappointing US pandered watered down and derivative bollocks (DiRT, and GRID looks like it's going the same way).

To be honest, a lot of their publisher only stuff (the stuff not developed in-house) seem to have been of such low quality purely because of pressuring the dev teams to get it out, despite the games clearly not being finished. This is not a good sign, and has been a pretty consistent Codies tactic recently. In fact, I find it hard to understand how Ubi and the likes have been getting such a bad press and you all seem to love Codies, when Codies are just as bad if not worse.

I can't see how this is good news at all, as I loved Sega Rally and Outrun 2, and don't wish to see such talent spoiled.

Yep - Sega Rally was excellent - but the people involved obviously didn't know how to present an arcade racer.

It's like an old Amiga game in terms of presentation - sparse and hollow. Makes a big difference.

Love the racing, though.

Outrun 2 was (converted) by Sumo Digital.

.... which was then named Sega Racing Studio.

I think anyway. I know Sumo did the Outrun 2 port, and I'm pretty sure I read somewhere the same guys also worked on Sega Rally.

Sumo Digital and the SEGA Racing Studio are two seperate developers. Sumo ported Outrun 2 and Outrun 2006, whilst SRS developed SEGA Rally (Revo).

Well if you cant beat them buy them.

it seems to work for EA!

heh.
just so you know, theres a healthy amount of ex-Codies devs at Sega racing studio... so its more like rehiring old employees :)
I'm a former Codie artist myself :)

dizzy racing, come on!