Microsoft has seen for itself that building a new studio with experienced developers is not easy. We are talking about an ambitious team The Initiativewhich he founded in Santa Monica in 2018 with the support of a technology giant Darrell Gallagher. His goal is to return to the famous brand Perfect Dark. However, the development of the near-future secret agent thriller is quite complicated, and despite the 2020 announcement, it won’t be released for two years at the earliest, if not longer.
Apparently, the project is located at an early stage of development. Great demands are to be placed on him. Microsoft’s vision is for the spy shooter originally created by Rare for the Nintendo 64 to return in the best possible form and it amazed everyone with its top-notch visuals, gameplay and story. She is often referred to as Fr AAAA title (current big games are referred to as AAA) a it is compared to hits like Game of Thrones, James Bond or Mission Impossible.
These big ambitions have caused a number of problems over the years. Over the years, the management had to throw out a few concepts and rework a lot. The impact of the pandemic, which ultimately resulted in the cancellation of cooperation with by the external study Certain Affinity. The Halo co-creators helped out with Perfect Dark until early 2021, but former employees in an interview with IGN they talk about a lack of accountability, poor communication and low morale, which led to a breakup shortly after a fairly polished proof of concept was finally put together.
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At the same time, Drew Murray left The Initiative to join Insomniac Games as lead designer. That should have started it an avalanche of layoffs. 35 senior developers were expected to leave in 2021 alone, and at least another 12 last year. Former employees who were there say about half the team has left, and at its worst, the number of employees was expected to drop to 30.
Fortunately, neither The Initiative nor Microsoft have given up. And probably Gallagher used his good contacts and thanks to him he succeeded establish cooperation with the Crystal Dynamics studio. The creators of Tomb Raider were supposed to realize the original vision of The Initiative. This should be going well now and both teams should be on the right track after minor disagreements. However, it seems that most of the responsibility rests on the shoulders of Crystal Dynamics. Development runs in Unreal Engine 5 and it is said that the possibility of releasing Perfect Dark episodicly is on the table.
Perfect Dark is described by former employees as a game with experimental movement, an emphasis on story, spy gangs, stealth and gunfights.
Darrell Gallagher was studio head of Crystal Dynamics for seven years (at the time of the Tomb Raider series reboot), then oversaw the development of Square Enix’s western games, and was also a senior vice president at Activision, where he oversaw Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare – Remastered, Destiny 2 or Crash Bandicoot: N. Sane Trilogy.
2023-07-01 11:01:02
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