October 4th, 2007 by astrotriforce
One of the most anticipated racers for the Xbox 360 is coming out this week, and that of course is Project Gotham Racing 4 by Bizarre Creations (which btw, Project Gotham Racing 5 has already been announced). But while that title has certainly gotten a lot of publicity, Bizarre has actually been hard at work on another game and, for once, is not a racing game. It hasn’t gotten much attention, and one reason is no doubt the lack of videos and trailers of the game online and the fact that it’s not hitting the US until February of 2008. But the game actually looks pretty fun, if I do say so myself.
The Club is being published by Sega and is a third-person shooter that mixes elements of action shooters with combo and point-based combat. The game centers around a shadowy underground blood-sport controlled by a wealthy and influential elite group of faceless individuals who place their bets on who will survive in a gladiatorial-style combat organization called The Club.
The game will feature eight playable characters each of which play differently depending on their individual stats of speed, strength, and stamina attributes. Some of the characters shown so far include an escaped Russian prisoner named Dragov, a former New York cop named Renwick, a gambler with life-threatening debts named Finn, an extreme sports junkie named Seager, and a mysterious character whose face was almost completely hidden under a hood.
The multiplayer portion features over nine multiplayer modes where up to 15 players can battle each other online. But it also supports 4-players offline via split-screen. The Club also has an online leaderboard for comparing scores.
For much more information on the title check out some gameplay footage and this interview with the developers below. (more…)
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September 27th, 2007 by supadupagama
Activision announced that it has acquired U.K.-based video game developer Bizarre Creations, one of the world’s leaders in racing games, a $1.4 billion market that is the fourth most popular video game genre and represents more than 10% of the total video game market worldwide.
This acquisition represents the latest step in Activision’s ongoing strategy to enter new genres. Last year, Activision entered the music rhythm genre through its acquisition of RedOctane’s Guitar Hero franchise, which is one of the fastest growing franchises in the video game industry.
With more than 10 years’ experience in the racing genre, Bizarre Creations is the developer of the innovative multi-million unit franchise Project Gotham Racing, a critically-acclaimed series for the Xbox and Xbox 360. The Project Gotham Racing franchise currently has an average game rating of 89%, according to GameRankings.com and has sold more than 4.5 million units in North America and Europe, according to The NPD Group, Charttrack and Gfk.
Bizarre Creations is currently finishing development on the third-person action game, The Club, for SEGA, which is due to be released early 2008. They are also the creators of the top-selling arcade game series Geometry Wars on Xbox Live Arcade.
Bizarre Creations and its games have won numerous industry awards including: Best Racing Game for Project Gotham Racing 2 from the prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA); the Industry Grand Prix Award from Develop; MCV’s UK Development Team 2006 award; Best Racing/Driving Game from IGN; Game of the Year from OXM and Gamespy for Project Gotham Racing 3; and IGN’s Best XBLA Game for Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved.
As far as I’m aware Project Gotham Racing 5 will still be published by Microsoft, seeing as they have the rights to the Xbox-exclusive franchise developed by Bizarre Creations.
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September 26th, 2007 by supadupagama
Project Gotham Racing 4 isn’t released on Xbox 360 until October 2nd in America and October 12th in Europe, but developer Bizarre Creations already comments how they will improve Project Gotham Racing 5.
Project Gotham Racing 4 lead designer Ged Talbert mentions about the inevitable racer sequel that: “Obviously Gotham 4’s about to come out and we’re really happy with it, but behind the scenes we’ve already started ripping our game to pieces. We know where we failed in certain areas; for instance we wanted more trackside damage, more particles and smoke effects, a bigger damage system - and all of these things are being stripped out in a post-mortem. Next time it’s more on the detail. That’s what we think; we think the devil’s in the detail. Anyone can make a good looking game but the top games blow you away by being super-realistic, adding things that you didn’t expect and surprising you.
I personally believe there’s a lot we can do by taking our vehicles we’ve already got and putting them into different, more interesting environments. It doesn’t always mean outside of the city, it just means getting lets say more elevation - somewhere we can finally do big jumps. That’s what we’re looking for in the next game; going to deserts - that kind of stuff. Seeing how they affect the gameplay, see if we can get Kudos working there as well. We could bring cruisers in, we could bring ATV-type bikes in. None of these are definite, but there’s are whole world of things for us to do,” quotes CVG in an interview.
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