Snarboo Posted August 9, 2006 PC Gamer UK, via Joystiq, is reporting that EA is currently developing System Shock 3. The team that made the Godfather and From Russia with Love are behind it. This is an obvious attempt at milking the dessicated udders of the System Shock franchise and is pretty terrible news to boot. When the game ends up sucking and sells poorly, rather then blame themselves for the travesty, they will instead blame it on the franchise and bury it. Frankly, I would rather have the first two games with no chance of a sequal than have this game see the light of day. 0 Share this post Link to post
leileilol Posted August 9, 2006 oh jesus, ea making the new system shock... this will be quite bad if you ask me. They won't capture the same atmosphere and depth the second game had no doubt. /me waits for BioShock 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted August 9, 2006 Damn, and I thought this was about Altered Beast. 0 Share this post Link to post
darknation Posted August 9, 2006 maybe ea just picked up the 'spritual sequel' bio-shock that the original developers are making. edit: or maybe not. boo. 0 Share this post Link to post
Craigs Posted August 9, 2006 I thought that everyone knew by now, that EA games doesn't give two shits about making good video games. For God's sake, their logo has better graphics then ALL of the James Bond games they've made. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linguica Posted August 9, 2006 After QA testing From Russia With Love for months, the chances of me caring about SS3 are slim to nil. 0 Share this post Link to post
Captain Red Posted August 10, 2006 maybe they'll re-release the first 2 games source codes as a promo! 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted August 10, 2006 What is it about the third game in a series failing to meet the standards, feeling and general goodness of the first two? It seems to happen time and time again - from the first games I played way-back-when to right now. :( Of course, EA and a team of different developers won't help in this case. 0 Share this post Link to post
Gokuma Posted August 10, 2006 Job said:Damn, and I thought this was about Altered Beast. That would be if the topic was "Wise fwom war gwave..." Captain Red said:maybe they'll re-release the first 2 games source codes as a promo! People want the source code from the original C&C and Red Alert 1. EA has simply stated that their policy is they do not release source code (even if they only bought it and didn't have a damn thing to do with writing it). People have worked on and are working on free open source versions though. Only one I tried so far: http://www.freecnc.org/ Its msg board with people posting links to other projects: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=6874 Such as http://sourceforge.net/projects/javafreecnc and http://arrakis.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?OpenRTS 0 Share this post Link to post
kristus Posted August 10, 2006 leileilol said:oh jesus, ea making the new system shock... this will be quite bad if you ask me. They won't capture the same atmosphere and depth the second game had no doubt. /me waits for BioShock Quoted for truth! 0 Share this post Link to post