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EA and Starbreeze doing Bourne game News

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News by Robert Purchese

2 February, 2009

EA has acquired the exclusive videogame rights to the works of author Robert Ludlum, and is working with Swedish developer Starbreeze (The Darkness, Chronicles of Riddick) on a Jason Bourne title.

The developer and publisher began working together last February on codename "Project RedLime", which was billed as "an incredibly innovative take on a classic [EA] property".

That will be a second and entirely separate game for EA, Starbreeze told Eurogamer this afternoon, but offered no further information on either project.

Ludlum Entertainment re-acquired the Bourne rights from Sierra Entertainment last year, after the latter produced an uninspiring videogame adaptation in the summer.

Incidentally, the Hollywood films The Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum are only loosely based on the books. Ludlum wrote quite a lot of other thrillers before his death in 2001, too.

Starbreeze is currently hard at work on delivering The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena for Atari, which launches here this March.

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DFawkes
02/02/09 @ 13:03
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Do The Darkness 2 first. Do it.
the_dudefather
02/02/09 @ 13:09
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JAAAAAAAAAACKKKIEEEEEEEEE

anyway, should be good, loved the darkness and Riddick so it will be interesting to see what they can do for another IP
DFawkes
02/02/09 @ 13:13
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Or, instead of another IP, The Darkness.
Olemak
02/02/09 @ 13:20
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Oh. Bummer.

I was hoping that project RedLime would turn out to be System Shock 3.
DFawkes
02/02/09 @ 13:30
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Or The Darkness 2.

Though System Shock 3 would be sweet. I'd take that, or The Darkness 2.
The_Inquisitor
02/02/09 @ 13:55
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I'm thinking it may have a touch of Mirrors Edge to it, which would be fantastic.
metalangel
02/02/09 @ 14:02
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MATT DAMON!
Artemus
02/02/09 @ 14:32
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Wow could actually be quite good with Starbreeze behind it.
PearOfAnguish
02/02/09 @ 14:39
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"I was hoping that project RedLime would turn out to be System Shock 3."

It still could be. EA is silly for sitting on System Shock for so long, especially with all the hype over Bioshock.
Quint2020
02/02/09 @ 14:48
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God I hope EA don't buy Starbreeze, absolutely fantastic developer.

They NEED to get working on the Darkness 2, this time I want the full Darkness armour from the comics for the violent dismemberment of baddies.
Terpenoid
02/02/09 @ 15:01
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This is not Redlime. It's a different project. RedLime has still not been announced.
riz23
02/02/09 @ 15:11
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Bourne > Bond. Fact. I guess any Bourne game would have the fists of Riddick in it?
DFawkes
02/02/09 @ 15:25
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Bourne > Bond, but The Darkness > Bourne. In a dark room, at least.
space ace
02/02/09 @ 15:38
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bourne from darkness?
DFawkes
02/02/09 @ 15:46
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Bravo, sir.
Dezm0nd
02/02/09 @ 16:55
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Starbreeze could make a good System Shock game or more excitingly, a Syndicate game.

But i'd be well happy with The Darkness 2 ;)
the_mtfr
02/02/09 @ 18:35
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The Darkness 2 please... or... EA is digging some old good IP after they bought and bankrupted Bullfrog? Magic Carpet or Hi-Octane would rock (so would Syndicate or Dungeon Keeper but Starbreeze maybe doesn't do strategies).

Anyway I wish Starbreeze stays away from EA... the beauty and the beast.
Freek
02/02/09 @ 21:00
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System Shock 3 was what Dead Space started out as, so it's probably going to be Syndicate.
Dark, action, shooty title, would seem a perfect fitt.
Olemak
03/02/09 @ 07:25
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Terpenoid: "This is not Redlime. It's a different project. RedLime has still not been announced. "

Ah, right. I sorta got confused there, sorry. So good news then, it could stil be SS3 :)

I'm thinking that StarBreeze is the perfect developer for System Shock, as their excellent engine does both stealth, shooting and "gameplay diversity" (there was A LOT going on in the originals, seems like Statbreezes can cope with that level of complexity.

Plus, they're actually good at making games - unlike quite most of the license-based developers i n the business.

Played the Bourne demo when in came out, hated it - because I don't like QTE's. It had some fun bits, absolutely, like hte Jeff Imada style hyper violence, but the QTE just killed the fun for me. And the driving was laughable. I know Starbreeze will steer clear of such pitfalls, so there's a good chance that this game will be worth playing. Maybe. I don't really do licence games much.

Will the release of this game coincide with the fourth film? They're still making a fourth film, right?
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03/02/09 @ 10:52
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I hope they don't do Syndicate. I trust Starbreeze but I don't want another shooterized version just like Fallout 3 was for Fallout 2. Actually a shooter version of Syndicate would be Deus Ex wouldn't it?

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