James Cope is the producer of Crackdown 2 up at Ruffian. And James had an admission to make to SPOnG in an interview published today. Ruffian made a mistake with the end of Crackdown.
"Yeah...," he tells SPOnG, "We shot ourselves in the foot at the end of Crackdown, and if you're familiar with the ending of the game you'll know why. We set up a scenario at the end where the Agency no longer made any sense. Revisiting it when we had the opportunity to do so made us realise that was a mistake. We've had to think very hard about how we corrected that."
Lessons have, however, been learned, as James tells us, "Where the Crackdown franchise is going now is different to where we thought it would be when we made the first game, and the thing is we now have a good understanding of what people liked so much about it. When we finished Crackdown we went through the turmoil of worrying about whether players would love it or if they would think it's deeply flawed."
Read the full interview here.
"Yeah...," he tells SPOnG, "We shot ourselves in the foot at the end of Crackdown, and if you're familiar with the ending of the game you'll know why. We set up a scenario at the end where the Agency no longer made any sense. Revisiting it when we had the opportunity to do so made us realise that was a mistake. We've had to think very hard about how we corrected that."
Lessons have, however, been learned, as James tells us, "Where the Crackdown franchise is going now is different to where we thought it would be when we made the first game, and the thing is we now have a good understanding of what people liked so much about it. When we finished Crackdown we went through the turmoil of worrying about whether players would love it or if they would think it's deeply flawed."
Read the full interview here.
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