Reportedly found on a Wii test kit discovered at an e-waste recycling center
Man, talk about a find.
The reason for it being canned so late seems to be mostly on internal higher up conflict within Lucasarts, whose leadership became bean counters. https://www.eurogamer.net/free-radical-vs-the-monsters
And then we went from talking to people who were passionate about making games to talking to psychopaths who insisted on having an unpleasant lawyer in the room." (David Doak on the change within Lucasarts after Jim Ward left)
“LucasArts hadn’t paid us for six months,” says Norgate “and were refusing to pass a milestone so we would limp along until the money finally ran out. They knew what they were doing, and six months of free work to pass on to Rebellion wasn’t to be sniffed at.”
A scientist in Goldeneye was called Doak. The scientists were named after the creative team, I wonder if it ks the same guy.
Now I dont know where I got te factoid though
Yep, David Doak gave us GoldenEye, TimeSplitters, and apparently this lost relic too!
Who did Perfect Dark?
Martin Hollis, but Doak was co-designer. https://www.mobygames.com/game/4034/perfect-dark/credits/n64/
(Also it’s crazy how short credits were back then. I left a Ubisoft credit scroll going a few years ago and I swear it took 45 minutes.)
Tbf, the early games industry was notoriously bad at crediting people
Look at the link at the top of this comment thread, great read and tells you how small the teams were back then
15 for Timesplitters 1, around 30 for Timesplitters 2, according to Steve Ellis and Lee Ray on that Eurogamer piece.
holy shit no fucking shot. fully playable battlefront 3???
Fully playable build, but it’s probably not a complete or finished game
Still better than the new EA ones which aren’t finished and aren’t playable.
I despise how long EA BF2 takes to load a simple coop mode (any mode really).
The intro cut scenes that are not skippable. Many more complaints but that stood out the most for me since I liked playing solo with bots.
