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Color Treyarch unimpressed over The Bourne Conspiracy photo

Treyarch's Garrett Young has revealed how his team check out the latest release demos, and has confessed that The Bourne Conspiracy left him feeling a little flat. 

"The Bourne game... we did download the demo, we did look at it, like we do anything that's new and coming out," explained Young. "Turok we played and other things that are new, we played GTA although that's not really in our space. But ... yeah ... not super impressed with [Bourne] ... it's always tough though when you make a game and you don't have the lead character from the movie."

Treyarch is currently working on its own movie license, Quantum of Solace, which Young is producing. He's also not alone with the Bourne Conspiracy disappointment, as our very own Mr. Burch gave the game an embarrassing 3.0. I don't think the inclusion of the leader character would have helped, however.


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randombullseye's Avatar
randombullseye at 08/13/2008 09:45
Because the lead character being carried over makes a bad game fun?

DrNutt's Avatar
DrNutt at 08/13/2008 09:56
I don't think that the inclusion of Matt Damon's likeness would have made the game more fun, but it was certainly distracting to see the same exact scenes from the Bourne movies with some no name dude. I couldn't help but think, "that's not Jason Bourne."
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lojus at 08/13/2008 10:00
I preferred having the unfamiliar protagonist instead of a badly rendered likeness and voice of an actor which would've otherwise drove up development costs.

But I also liked this game for what a was, a easy to finish rental.
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taterchimp at 08/13/2008 10:02
Instead of using time to make the in game likeness remarkable, I would prefer if they made it, um...good?
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Emrah at 08/13/2008 10:22
The Bourne game was better than stranglehold (just played both Demos), it seemed to be full of action and the finishing moves looked cool. Why the comparison? I dunno, maybe the action sequences were something I expected from John Woo but didn't find..
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Midknight at 08/13/2008 10:26
Not ashamed to say that I really enjoyed the demo. So much so, I played it a whole 3 times.

I can wait a year till the game becomes super bargain bin material however (5 for £25 in some Blockbuster and Gamestation stores in the UK was one such recent promotion)

Always nice to add a game to the collection.
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Jon2309 at 08/13/2008 12:25
Well, since you're doing a movie tie-in too, I'm going to find it hilarious if it sucks.

Although both fortunately and unfortunately, it looks good so far. So I can't take the piss at this stage.
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TrailerParkJesus at 08/13/2008 12:54
Why is he even commenting on someone else's game? Just work on your own damn projects.
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Spooky Electric at 08/13/2008 13:05
Hahaha, Treyarch.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar
Kyousuke Nanbu at 08/14/2008 00:35
They didn't get Matt Damon because Damon wanted the game to be like Myst. And no I'm not joking, he was dead-set on that.

Treyarch's a joke anyway.
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