via TXB- According to Chris Plummer, executive producer at the EA Los Angeles studio where the game is being developed, the title has been in the works for close to three years. To verify the idea of a C&C shooter would fly, the designers first put together a "low fidelity" test version of the game with crude character models, which also enabled them to test out gameplay concepts and balance the squad-based format. The game is using Unreal Engine 3 as its foundation.
It's always unfortunate when great projects are put on hold or cancelled, and when digging through the batch of discarded ideas, one can find some real gaming gems in the cancelled games list. MyGaming look at the top 5 cancelled games that should've been made.
Eight Days' premise sounded interesting! But all the per-rendered videos did look a little generic.
From Strategyinformer.com: "Return of the Dawn is a TS 2 C&C1 (Tiberian Dawn) total conversion, aiming to combine the fun gameplay of the original with the more advanced features and graphical capabilities of the Tiberian Sun engine. Version 2.8 is now available.http://static.strategyinformer.com/r/screenshots/00335392.jpg"
Edge writes: "When Electronic Arts canceled the Command & Conquer-themed shooter Tiberium, some praised the company's hard line on quality.
But Mike Hickey with Janco Partners questions how an admitted low-quality game got so far into development.
"Continued lack of management execution and/or product quality damages new management's credibility and dampens our excitement for the Company's shares," Hickey said in a Tuesday research note."
