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"Bit of News about Rare"

Info from Rare employee

Perfect Dark 2 has been canned from XBOX 1 and is going over to XBOX 2.

Sabre Man Stamped has been canned from XBOX 1 and may not even be made for XBOX 2.

Kameo looks like its not going to be finished and may be canned.

Ghoulies has just been launched, sales are not to good and it should have been canned.


Full topic can be found here (don't laugh too hard, what have they done ?)

http://www.fatbabies.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4302

How can Conker be a first person shooter when the game is in third person?

Hmmm?

And that's just the multiplayer. That was always a TPS.

Conker certainly seems to have taken a much more FPS stlye route, in the expansion of its multi for LIVE. Wouldn't a whole new single player game and new LIVE stuff be better....?

AfroJoe wrote:
> I think Banjo is now pretty much dead.

What makes you say that... could be a damn good GBA title.

> And Conker has been converted to "FPS".

Erm no it hasn't.

One of the purported employees wrote in the forum that Kameo had been canned, after 2 years of work on it.

That's if it ever comes out..

Note it's not even listed as in development on the Rare site, while Wulf, Kameo etc. still are.

PDZ is going to use a cel shaded/anime look, apparently...

I think Banjo is now pretty much dead.

And Conker has been converted to "FPS".

So what you're saying is that Rare went crap because they sacked all their employees and got a bunch of Uni graduates? Yep, that makes sense to me.
I was aware that only about half the people who made Perfect Dark made Goldeneye, which explains a lot, and the people who left Goldeneye made Timesplitters 1 and 2, which also explains a lot.
I'm just most concerned about their classic platformers, like Banjo and Conker. What will become of them?

Yep.. the ex-employees sound very happy:

"The Rare way though is simply to replace them [ex-employees] with 21 year olds straight from Uni that think, like I did, that working stupid hours for Rare is a dream in itself. The dream wears fine pretty quick."

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Conker shall rock muchly.

Well, we would have said that a number of years ago.

Yet look at the state Rare are in now. And the employee that made all the statements in the original post was also quoted to have said "Conker, why are we releasing it? Why?"

Implying something about the game? Maybe it's not a patch on what it promised?

Maybe I'm just cynical, but Rare really do look in a state.