At the Game Developers Conference today, studio head of Surreal Software Alan Patmore spoke with 1UP about his upcoming open-world action game, This is Vegas, which is slated for release late this year.
On whether the world needs another open-world action game: "I think there's the perception that there's a lot of open-world games out there, and really there aren't. We've got GTA, which I'm really looking forward to playing. But people I know want to play open-world games. So really, you only have a handful of franchises out there. We're also totally different. We're not thug-based, and we're not crime-based. We have a unique take on open-world. I think there's a high demand for open-world games, and as a game designer, open-world is something that is creating its own genre, but the genre hasn't really been explored. It's as if we were in the first-person-shooter genre, and they were all Doom. There's a lot of room to explore...different mechanics, different gameplay, different tones."
The games industry can be a cruel mistress. Here are 5 games we would like to see resurrected for current platforms
Console Monster writes: "Following the reveal of a major game, social-networking websites are buzzing with excitement, as gamers spend weeks, months, sometimes even years waiting for screenshots, interviews, teaser trailers and gameplay videos to trickle into the public before the game’s highly anticipated launch.
Unfortunately, not all video games that are announced see the light of day, despite months of rumours and speculation. Console Monster looks at ten video games that were cruelly taken away from us."
A Perfect Dark sequel (after PDZ).
Kameo 2 (but I always saw Kameo as similar to Starfox Adventures in style myself).
Conker's Other Bad Fur Day (Original Xbox had a remake of the original game and Xbox One now has the Project Spark adventure instead).
Donkey Kong Racing (as Rare were bought by Microsoft).
GameZone writes, "When looking forward, it’s hard to not also look back and imagine what some games would be like if they came out today. What about the ones that never came out at all? While the chances of any of the following games going back into development are slim-to-none, it’s exciting to consider how much better or more practical they would be today."
As soon as I read the title the first game that came to my mind was Starcraft: Ghosts.
"An AI partner hadn’t really been done right by that point"
lol sure, a little game from 2004 called Half-Life 2 says hi.