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An interesting find on the gamespot website seems to suggest that Brat design actually had a better version of Breed, yet that wasn’t the version that ended up in the shops. The article in full:
“Once billed as a potential Halo rival, BREED has received almost universally dismal reviews since it was released last week. According to the GameSpot review, the main sticking points with the game are its "flimsy writing, atrocious voice acting, generic enemies and settings." However, one of the game's animators is reportedly claiming the game's problems are not the fault of the developer. In a series of posts on the CDV forums, someone claiming to be Brat Designs' Billy "Bli" Allison claimed that "we (Brat) finished BREED, but the released version wasn't the one we had finished." The person then leveled a series of charges against CDV, claiming the publisher re-wrote and re-recorded the dialogue, "'brightened' up" subtle lighting, ruined textures, changed level scripts, and shipped a build of the game several generations behind the one submitted by Brat. The poster even claimed that CDV is holding back a patch submitted by Brat "several weeks ago" which fixed many of the game's technical issues. When confronted with the laundry list of allegations, CDV's American reps forwarded GameSpot's requests for comment to the publisher's German headquarters--who never responded. Attempts to contact UK-based Brat were also unsuccessful.”
While it is a rumour, it would explain why after countless delays the game just didn’t seem to improve, as you’d expect it to. Of course this could just be Brat putting the blame on someone because they don’t want to admit they made a cocck-up of the game. Either way it doesn’t change the fact the game currently sitting on the shelves isn’t worth the CD it’s printed on, be it the fault of Brat of someone else who didn’t know what they where doing.
“Once billed as a potential Halo rival, BREED has received almost universally dismal reviews since it was released last week. According to the GameSpot review, the main sticking points with the game are its "flimsy writing, atrocious voice acting, generic enemies and settings." However, one of the game's animators is reportedly claiming the game's problems are not the fault of the developer. In a series of posts on the CDV forums, someone claiming to be Brat Designs' Billy "Bli" Allison claimed that "we (Brat) finished BREED, but the released version wasn't the one we had finished." The person then leveled a series of charges against CDV, claiming the publisher re-wrote and re-recorded the dialogue, "'brightened' up" subtle lighting, ruined textures, changed level scripts, and shipped a build of the game several generations behind the one submitted by Brat. The poster even claimed that CDV is holding back a patch submitted by Brat "several weeks ago" which fixed many of the game's technical issues. When confronted with the laundry list of allegations, CDV's American reps forwarded GameSpot's requests for comment to the publisher's German headquarters--who never responded. Attempts to contact UK-based Brat were also unsuccessful.”
While it is a rumour, it would explain why after countless delays the game just didn’t seem to improve, as you’d expect it to. Of course this could just be Brat putting the blame on someone because they don’t want to admit they made a cocck-up of the game. Either way it doesn’t change the fact the game currently sitting on the shelves isn’t worth the CD it’s printed on, be it the fault of Brat of someone else who didn’t know what they where doing.
Presedenté Nash wrote:
> Your mothers weren't supposed to be crap, but they were.
> A lá Bang.
Didn’t mum jokes die out a few years ago? Still, I suppose they’re good if you have nothing funny to say :-)
> Your mothers weren't supposed to be crap, but they were.
> A lá Bang.
Didn’t mum jokes die out a few years ago? Still, I suppose they’re good if you have nothing funny to say :-)
Yeah well, what ever rings your bell I guess.
Your mothers weren't supposed to be crap, but they were.
A lá Bang.
A lá Bang.
I'd imagine that to be rather good, actually.
Althugh the graphics drivers for Linux are about as good as watching a rodent walk into a computer fan.
Well, Unreal Tourney can run on most modern computers at full settings; it even has support for linux, so... er, woww!
tee hee I bought mine based purely on speculation and all that hype that dates back to when it first made an E3 appearance.(Note to self: ALWAYS wait for a review)
I was quite impressed by the fact that I could run everything at full whack at the highest resolution supported by my monitor, and everything on screen remained really fluid, on my mid range graphics card.
Halfway into the first level (after many attempts based on having to remember where the baddies where) I decided to call it a day.I dug up my receipt and promptly returned it.Embarrasingly enough I'd sung its praises in this very forum, the day before.
I was quite impressed by the fact that I could run everything at full whack at the highest resolution supported by my monitor, and everything on screen remained really fluid, on my mid range graphics card.
Halfway into the first level (after many attempts based on having to remember where the baddies where) I decided to call it a day.I dug up my receipt and promptly returned it.Embarrasingly enough I'd sung its praises in this very forum, the day before.
An interesting find on the gamespot website seems to suggest that Brat design actually had a better version of Breed, yet that wasn’t the version that ended up in the shops. The article in full:
“Once billed as a potential Halo rival, BREED has received almost universally dismal reviews since it was released last week. According to the GameSpot review, the main sticking points with the game are its "flimsy writing, atrocious voice acting, generic enemies and settings." However, one of the game's animators is reportedly claiming the game's problems are not the fault of the developer. In a series of posts on the CDV forums, someone claiming to be Brat Designs' Billy "Bli" Allison claimed that "we (Brat) finished BREED, but the released version wasn't the one we had finished." The person then leveled a series of charges against CDV, claiming the publisher re-wrote and re-recorded the dialogue, "'brightened' up" subtle lighting, ruined textures, changed level scripts, and shipped a build of the game several generations behind the one submitted by Brat. The poster even claimed that CDV is holding back a patch submitted by Brat "several weeks ago" which fixed many of the game's technical issues. When confronted with the laundry list of allegations, CDV's American reps forwarded GameSpot's requests for comment to the publisher's German headquarters--who never responded. Attempts to contact UK-based Brat were also unsuccessful.”
While it is a rumour, it would explain why after countless delays the game just didn’t seem to improve, as you’d expect it to. Of course this could just be Brat putting the blame on someone because they don’t want to admit they made a cocck-up of the game. Either way it doesn’t change the fact the game currently sitting on the shelves isn’t worth the CD it’s printed on, be it the fault of Brat of someone else who didn’t know what they where doing.
“Once billed as a potential Halo rival, BREED has received almost universally dismal reviews since it was released last week. According to the GameSpot review, the main sticking points with the game are its "flimsy writing, atrocious voice acting, generic enemies and settings." However, one of the game's animators is reportedly claiming the game's problems are not the fault of the developer. In a series of posts on the CDV forums, someone claiming to be Brat Designs' Billy "Bli" Allison claimed that "we (Brat) finished BREED, but the released version wasn't the one we had finished." The person then leveled a series of charges against CDV, claiming the publisher re-wrote and re-recorded the dialogue, "'brightened' up" subtle lighting, ruined textures, changed level scripts, and shipped a build of the game several generations behind the one submitted by Brat. The poster even claimed that CDV is holding back a patch submitted by Brat "several weeks ago" which fixed many of the game's technical issues. When confronted with the laundry list of allegations, CDV's American reps forwarded GameSpot's requests for comment to the publisher's German headquarters--who never responded. Attempts to contact UK-based Brat were also unsuccessful.”
While it is a rumour, it would explain why after countless delays the game just didn’t seem to improve, as you’d expect it to. Of course this could just be Brat putting the blame on someone because they don’t want to admit they made a cocck-up of the game. Either way it doesn’t change the fact the game currently sitting on the shelves isn’t worth the CD it’s printed on, be it the fault of Brat of someone else who didn’t know what they where doing.