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"The other great thing about Rare!"

The other thing that is great about Rare besides the fact that they make great games, is that they are based here in the UK! This means the we get their great games earlier than the rest of the world! Poor Japan had to wait over a year before Perfect Dark was released over there! & then they didnt even like it that much! Their should be more companies based over here so that we can get our games quicker instead of waiting months after the USA has had them!

The other thing that is great about Rare besides the fact that they make great games, is that they are based here in the UK! This means the we get their great games earlier than the rest of the world! Poor Japan had to wait over a year before Perfect Dark was released over there! & then they didnt even like it that much! Their should be more companies based over here so that we can get our games quicker instead of waiting months after the USA has had them!

Our survey says EH ER.

WRONG America got their hands on Conker and Banjo months before us, it was also likely at the time that Conker wouldn't even get a UK release.

True, but we still get them quicker than most other companies games! The only reason Conker might not of been introduced over here is because of the 'adult' content that the Americans moaned about! And there is more chance of it being released over here because it is made by a British company (with British humor)

There are quite a lot of developers in the UK, but most of the mass markets are over seas, so most games get released there. Also, to make a game for something like the N64, you have to send a copy of your game off to someone like Nintendo who then put it on millions of carts for you. Therefor the game usually ends up getting finished over seas, so the game then gets released there first!

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Perfect dark was out in teh US about 2 months before the UK

I was so suprised though, when I found out that Japan didn't even have it whilst I was actually playing on it!

The main reason we dont get games till after the other contries isnt because of the produuction of them! Thats why they sometimes do a worldwide release of something! Its the fact until resently we havent had a Nintendo of Europe! Instead we have had 'Game' distrobuting the games!

The other reason is because they have to translate the language! Again it isnt english that is the problem, bbecause places like australia get games with english on them (just not French & german)! One good thing is though you can get import english PAL (so they work on our machines) games before they get released over here from Australia, but not many companies do it for a good price! It would be good if SR started doin it! Hopeful this problem wont be so bad now that there is a NOE like NOA!

There's quite a few games that don't get released in Japan for ages after we get them. There not really into first person shooters as much as the west. They tend to like their RPG's, their Luv-em-ups, and their horse riding simulators!

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It didnt go down too well in Japan, Perfect Dark that is!!
For some reason they dont like FPS's - Strange seeing as some of the best games are FPS's!!

These are exciting times - Seeing what rare can produce for the GC!!
Star Fox Adventures looks absolutely amazing!!