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Revitalised US publisher Interplay has re-opened its internal development studio in an attempt to rekindle some of its old magic.
It can do it because its revenues were up 872 per cent on last year, according to a financial statement by boss Herve Caen - although he accepts it is largely from selling the Fallout property to Bethesda for a rumoured USD 5.75 million.
The result is that we may see the likes of Earthworm Jim, MDK, Clayfighters, Freespace, Kingpin, Sacrifice and more reworked to stoke the fast-burning money oven.
It will need all it can get, too, as it has ambitious plans to create a Fallout MMO requiring a minimum financing of around USD 30 million. A tall task, then, but one Caen has previously said he is busy securing funding to overcome.
Meanwhile Bethesda continues work on Fallout 3 for PC, PS3 and 360, a game tipped by many to be as successful if not more so than acclaimed RPG Oblivion.
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schachmatt
15/11/07 @ 13:17
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Well, Sacrifice, Messiah and MDK were all made by Shiny Entertainment, which went the hard way of designing great, original games.
I wouldn't doubt Interplay in the state it's in would try to cash in on horrible sequels if those games would have been good sellers, which they weren't. |
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It's sad to see the likes of interplay and blackisle out of business. They where (together with Bethesda and bioware) the only ones who could truly call themselves masters of RPG. Others can only dream of the quality that they delivered.
I hope interplay can succeed in their revival. Would pay good money to play the next Earthworm Jim, MDK, or Freespace. |
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reality_cheque
15/11/07 @ 13:36
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I would like more good games please, I don't care which IPs they use for them.
Although Descent would be nice. |
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monkie_king
15/11/07 @ 14:31
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as far as MDK goes, the team who created that perfect little marvel left and formed Planet Moon, who've subsequently done other left-field stuff like Giants and Armed and Dangerous. Then the PSP After Burner game. And now a Wii trivia game. Oh well.
Shiny went completely down the dumper after MDK and Messiah too, culminating in that godawful Matrix game. |
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monkie_king
15/11/07 @ 16:14
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Titus published the middling-to-good Crazy Cars series on the Amiga, right? And the eponymous Titus the Fox.
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Just to echo all the desperate voices ... please, please, give us Freespace 3. And do it right. With the ion cannons. Especially with the ion cannons.
NB - I'm not even sure they were called ion cannons, as I've just remembered that's what they're called in Homeworld. The huge pretty laser beams that the huge pretty capital ships fire at each other and that fry you instantly if you fly into them. |
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schachmatt
15/11/07 @ 16:59
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"Shiny went completely down the dumper after MDK and Messiah too, culminating in that godawful Matrix game."
They just made what the public wanted and were much more successful with that. Can't really blame them when even here dumbed-down, derivative work gets so much praise. "They did a top down LOTR RPG on the PC years ago, but only released the first two parts." Those were totally great games, with a lot of freedom in the framework of the story. It foreshadowed a lot of what Fallout made great. |
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