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Rest In Peace, Bizarre Creations
Michael McWhertor — On Friday, February 18, the studio behind video game greats like Project Gotham Racing and Geometry Wars will close its doors forever. The Activision-owned studio has no buyer and its most recent game, James Bond 007: Blood Stone, will be its last.
As already announced by Activision, Bizarre Creations will end its 15-year-long life as a video game developer after being recommended for closure. Develop has a lengthy obituary on the developer of games like The Club, Fur Fighters and last year's superpowered racer Blur, along with a few comments from unnamed Activision and Bizarre staffers.
There's seemingly little bad blood between the owner and its soon-to-be-shuttered studio. One commenter in the Develop story, purportedly from an ex-Bizarre staffer, who places blame on the studio itself. "We had no idea what to do and we ended up doing the wrong thing for nearly 4 years," an alleged staffer writes.
"The problem was that we made Blur; real cars in realistic cities with power ups," they write. "Who were we selling that game to? Marketing had no chance, we didn't even know how to sell it or who it was aimed at."
"Then we made Bond, which was destined to be average from the start when we aimed to 'make it like Uncharted 2, but in half the time and with James Bond in it'." [/quote]
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Soon, Activision will close down all their studios except Blizzard and the ones that produce Call of Duty games.
Holy fuck, that sucks. I love Project Gotham Racing, and Geometry Wars is a classic.
I liked Blur. :frown:
Geometry wars was fun as hell, that's a shame.
Wow they made Project Gotham Racing?
Played that shit so fucking much as a kid. :smith:
That's really sad news for those guys, Geometry Wars was fantastic and Project Gotham Racing was a classic. :saddowns:
i remember how great cod 4 was when it came out, but thinking back on it now, games before that I used to play without having any type of reward or "get to the next level/prestige" type of thing
now after cod it seems I can barely play a game without having some sort of progression system
They're not that mad about it?
And this?
[QUOTE]"The problem was that we made Blur; real cars in realistic cities with power ups," they write. "Who were we selling that game to? Marketing had no chance, we didn't even know how to sell it or who it was aimed at."
"Then we made Bond, which was destined to be average from the start when we aimed to 'make it like Uncharted 2, but in half the time and with James Bond in it'."[/QUOTE]
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Hopefully they find new jobs soon. That is, if they're not just being moved over to some other section of Activision.
I'm certain the members of this talented team will not have trouble finding work.
activision blizzard has really raped gaming pretty hard. They have shut down an insane number of studios.
I'm actually terrified of what next gen will look like.
PGR was one of the few actually challenging racing games, goodnight sweet prince.
[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;28057175]I'm actually terrified of what next gen will look like.[/QUOTE]
What call of duty game would you like to purchase today, sir?
Fuck man. Project Gotham was an incredible game.
Next they'll make a console and it's soul purpose will be to only play CoD games.
I really liked Geometry Wars :smith:
EDIT: At least we still have a really cool Geometry Wars clone, [url=http://gridwars.marune.de/]GridWars 2[/url]... :unsmith:
More Geometry Wars clones [url=http://indygamer.blogspot.com/2006/08/geometry-wars-clones.html#gw2][U]here[/U][/url] ;D
Rest in peace sweet prince
PGR4 was and still is one of my favorite games
Call of Warcraft: World of Duty
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;28057622]I really liked Geometry Wars :smith:
EDIT: At least we still have a really cool Geometry Wars clone, [url=http://gridwars.marune.de/]GridWars 2[/url]... :unsmith:
More Geometry Wars clones [url=http://indygamer.blogspot.com/2006/08/geometry-wars-clones.html#gw2][U]here[/U][/url] ;D[/QUOTE]
The music on that one is not nearly as good as the original
[QUOTE=Jorori;28065807]The music on that one is not nearly as good as the original[/QUOTE]
Yeah I know... they're not like the original game.
It'd be awesome if they could somehow release the source code!
Kotick Needs to be Stopped!
[QUOTE=Source;28066623]Kotick Needs to be Stopped![/QUOTE]
no shit
Valve should totally buy the studio off Activision!
:frown:
What a bizzare turn of events.
[QUOTE=Dashiel;28066887]What a bizzare turn of events.[/QUOTE]
If you were intending to make a pun, it was terrible.
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