Turning Point dev hits back at poor review scores

The CEO of Spark Unlimited, the developer behind upcoming FPS Turning Point: Fall of Liberty, has hit back at criticism from game reviewers, saying it is a "high concept idea" and isn't targeted at the "core gamer".

Speaking in an interview with VideoGamer.com at a preview event for Spark's new mythological FPS Legendary, CEO Craig Allen said the team did it's best to execute "with the time and money we had".

[PirateThom]

I hate it when devs get up themselves. I played the demo, the game does suck and bad reviews are warranted, the nonsense about "time and money" doesn't cut it. If your team can't make a good game, they can't make a good game.

[Captain Tuttle]

Bah, you're shooting Nazis with bad controls. The game deserves it's mediocre scores. Sorry buddy.

[BeaArthur]

I thought the demo wasn't bad, I mean I was never going to buy it but it seemed functional and all. But this game has been getting killed by reviewers. I was going to rent it but I probably won't even do that now.

[THWIP]

...for your next game (Legendary: The Box), I suggest you secure MORE "time and money", so as not to repeat your lackluster effort. :o

[THWIP]

Some people are so f@cking pathetic...clicking "disagree" on every post, of posters they generally don't like. Hope you don't mind looking like complete tools, for disagreeing with perfectly rational statements. :o

[NPerez]

I disagree with questioning one's right to disagree at their own discretion. Does that seem rational enough to you?

[mighty_douche]

Make all the excuses you want.

Make a crap game, expect crap scores.

[Bolts]

This game freaking sucks.

[Robanov]

I didn't even have the patience to play through the demo of this. With games like COD4 and Halo 3 available there really is no excuse to release a game this bad.

[Havince]

was like an early PS2 game

[DARK WITNESS]

this is what i have never understood...

so you don't have the time and money to make it a great game...
solution, just make whatever you can with the money you got and hope for the best.

We ( the gamers ) will buy it anyway cos we are stupid and don't know better.

unfortunately i am not a dev, so i don't know how this works, but i would think it logical to just take the money and resources and put them towards a project that may get you better results....

I really hope not a single person buys this game.... maybe he will think twice before giving such a bad excuse.

[Mike134nl]

lol I also played the demo but in all means there are a plethora of other war shooting games, which ar far better than this on. I liked the concept, but the demo totally ruined it for me esspecially since the intro demod the bad story.

I mean common how could they not see this large of a army of planes and blimps comminc, blimps aren't that fast. So what would I be doing on a scycraper when I know a large army is invading america.

[princejb134]

if the develepors knew the game wasnt as good as they expected it to be, why not delay it to make it better?am i wrong for saying this
isnt this what other develepors do these days; delay the game to make it more interesting and playable

[Blademask]

The unreal engine isn't the GOD of game dev.

[ceedubya9]

There were hints in there that seemed as though the game could have been descent, but overall it was just bad. i didn't even bother to finish it, and deleted it from my harddrive with the quickness. Its like they took all the good ideas from Call of Duty, Metal of Honor, and Wolfenstein and just completely screwed it up into this game with horrible results.

[Truplaya]

the demo was terrible. The shooting and movement were so bad i had to go play COD4 to ease my worry that all games had gone bad.

The game was soo bad that i cant find one good point. Controls were terrible, graphics were like an early PS2 game and the story is sooo un interesting. I mean WW2 in New York - who gives a....

[sandip787]

lol the reviews are 100% spot on - good concept, badly executed. poor controls, bland graphics (i say bland because im bored of the unreal engine.), no oomph to it at all. so sorry about this mr dev, your game smells a bit like poo.

[Lumbo]

Things to be learned by the devs:
If you make a bargain production value level game, don't try to sell it to us at full price, cause gamers buy games from their LIMITED BUDGET.

[titntin]

What 'high concept' is he talking about?

Its an FPS - a hopelessly overcrowded market, and you want some kudos in that genre, you've got to do it good. They didn't. The weapons are simply not fun, and the controls don't feel good.

[Marty8370]

A crap game deserves crap game reviews scores.

[Salvadore]

Developer cannot just enter an overcrowded genre by take a little bit of everything and just mixing it into a solid shooter.

[PSWe60]

This game never really caught my attention, is it really that bad?

[sak500]

Lucky you dint suffer the abuse. I still have nightmares and prob have developed PTSD.

[sak500]

Dev: Is this game revolutionary, is it doing play mechanics I've never seen before, is it driving new technology?" it was never meant to do those things.

Me: Go make games for atari 2600 then.

One of the worst games of 2008 if not 2007. Last year hour of victory got that award i believe and this year this POS. Man the freaking enemies poped up and down from behind cover like the shooting range targets instead of some animation. I emptied one clip into its face and he stood there. FFS it shud get 3-4 max....Out of 100.

[Asurastrike]

Is anyone else reminded of Lair?

[t-0_ot-]

THWIP - "I suggest you secure MORE "time and money", so as not to repeat your lackluster effort. :o" Let's see you make a game in a certain amount of time with a certain amount of money..

[THWIP]

"Let's see you make a game in a certain amount of time with a certain amount of money.."

You really got me there. ???? Was there a POINT in that comment, or do you only know how to post rhetoric? After all, if I did have an unspecified amount of money, and an unspecified amount of time...I could certainly make SOME kind of game. My point was, if this dev is going to blame those two factors on his game sucking...then those OBVIOUSLY need to be the two factors he concentrates on with the next project. Capiche?

[highps3]

They tried to make another BF and why? We already have BF...

Game overall has solid graphics and gameplay isnt bad its just nothing we have seen a million times over... Plus no one cares. It never got the hype status of say Killzone 2 or Halo or Bioshock...

But then again reviewers suck as well so who knows whats good anymore. I didnt care for it and i loved bf. Played demo on my 360.

[t-0_ot-]

Sure.