In 2008 Activision and Vivendi merged. The above mentioned project was cancelled for several reasons. They said the game looked great but needed to turn into somethign else. They expressed their decision with the fact they already had the James Bond Franchise and stated several other decision points based around the IP and the games potential returns.
As Radical restructured we helped with the Scarface2 project for several weeks before that project was also cancelled. Here are a few wip art assets I made for Scarface2.
Really great franchise and its a pity gamers anticipations had gone away as well as all the hard work of you developers. Many thanks anyhow for the story. Pinning my hopes the project may still come alive out of dead sometimes. At least i do hope Bourne will come to videogames soon again.
ReplyDeleteBy the way Prototype was really awesome - thank you for the efforts!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comments gamepartru.
ReplyDeleteHaha, I like the "Wicked" poster in the background of the third pic. That light pass/blockout looks really cool too.
ReplyDeleteSwoop, do projects like these get canceled often? I'd have to assume that that gets pretty frustrating at times, in my opinion at least.
Thanks Insipidus, Team Firearm was solid. In my personal experience, I have 12 published titles and 3 cancelled games. Yes it is part of the industry and Yes It can be very frustrating. Especially if you like your game and you've dedicated a year of your life pushing to make it as awesome as possible.
ReplyDelete"They said the game looked great but needed to turn into something else. "
ReplyDeletewhat is it with studio mentality. they were hired to do a bourne game.
bourne is espionage. so what if they had james bond. you can have a market on the spy genre people! crazy what execs and marketing people will choose to do. james bond and jason bourne are both excellent properties. you don't throw one away for the other. the bourne franchise on it's own is huge. sales of books over the years is massive. gamers want things like this.
Too bad, this would have been a great IP and the graphics look great.
multiplayer, even better
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the bourne series are great and so is this amazing game from graphics,environments its just a cool game,i have to say the developers did a great job ,I have a nice suggestion what not try to find other publishers like EA,UBISOFT or any cool publisher that will get this beautiful game come out to the world and everyone enjoy it,thanks a lot for the developers :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the positive comments 6R3ND3L and jouini! It's quite disappointing to work hard on a good game for a year and have a studio merger cancel the project. The positive feedback and comments helps to soothe the pain.
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