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The other recent slippage announcement is Singularity – Raven’s first “new IP”

Wait, wait… What? Did I just slip into an alternate universe where Heretic/Hexen never happened? Gah! I hate when that happens…

So yeah, I think the backlash is solely on account of its popularity even towards tweens (As if Valve’s or Infinity Ward’s games were spared).

I didn’t really want to bring it up in the free-roam article above, but even as a PC-only site; I think ODST should be worth keeping an eye on to see how it handles its sandbox exploration.

Such an odd insult.

But in addition to their generally admirable level of polish, Bungie put a lot of innovative stuff in there, almost all of it positive, and much of it has since been appropriated by other games going forward. I’m currently playing Far Cry 2, and I have to admit that both the weapon system and the vehicle feel very Halo-esque. If your take was “meh, nothing to write home about”, then you weren’t paying any attention to the game design.

Fiscal year 2010 starts on 1st November 2009 for Take Two, still well in time for Christmas if they want that. They might just be ‘massaging’ the games into next years financials by releasing them a week later.

A few years later, it re-surfaced as KuF: The Crusaders an Xbox game that kinda played like a hybrid of Dynasty Warriors, the battles from the Total War series, and with more than a dash of Warhammer Fantasy in terms of theme. It was good. It was also ungodly hard, as you often had to micromanage your own personal melee (you only directly control your main character), as well as odering around 5-6 regiments of troops at once.

It also had the funniest, weirdest bit of censorship ever, if anyone wants to hear it.

It then surfaced again a year later as a straight update/prequel – KuF: Heroes. Even harder, more units, better graphics, etc. All good stuff.

A couple of years pass, and they apparently begin work on a new KuF, but in the meantime, they (I think a third-party studio were involved in some major way) produce a spinoff to keep the money coming in on the 360. KuF: Circle of Doom is born, and while it got bad reviews in general, it was a fun enough Diablo-esque (tons o’ loot, random maps, etc) dungeon crawl with friends.

KuF2 has been in the works for ages though, and I notice one of the screenshots shows you controlling no less than 12 regiments. That’s gonna be complicated if you’re also running around as your general as well.

It’s really nice to see a major studio has the wherewithal to push back dates and deliver better quality then give in to whatever marketing or competition has driven so many other titles to release really crappy code just to make a date. *cough ARMA*