Another Big Budget Bomb

[ECM]

So long, Red Faction:

THQ has pulled the plug on its Red Faction franchise following poor sales of RF: Armageddon.

Speaking at an investor call today, CEO Brian Farrell confirmed that "we do not intend to carry forward with that franchise in any meaningful way."

He added that the development team at Volition has been moved onto Guillermo del Toro's inSane survival horror project.

I enjoyed the second one and I liked the demolition aspect of Guerrilla, but the way the stories kept leaning more and more towards, essentially, terrorist role-playing, the more rapidly my interest waned.

[elchevalier]

How much they spend in those games? Also, i like del Toro, but as a movie maker, not as a game maker. How much he's going to be involved? Again, if the guy is going to be involved in the actual gameplay, what results are we going to get? Games that might look very good, but play very lousy.

[ECM]

Well, the 'upside' to these directors getting involved in games is that, generally, they are *nowhere* near as involved as you might think. Generally, they create the framework (setting, characters, etc.) but don't really handle the gameplay, per se.

[feilong80]

The big error with the last RF game is that they went away from the previous formula and went into something that resembled a corridor shooter, iirc.