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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 - Comment posted on 08/13/2008 09:45
randombullseye
Because the lead character being carried over makes a bad game fun?

DrNutt's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2008 09:56
DrNutt
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."
lojus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2008 10:00
lojus
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.
taterchimp's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2008 10:02
taterchimp
Instead of using time to make the in game likeness remarkable, I would prefer if they made it, um...good?
Emrah's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2008 10:22
Emrah
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..
Midknight's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2008 10:26
Midknight
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.
Jon2309's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2008 12:25
Jon2309
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.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2008 12:54
TrailerParkJesus
Why is he even commenting on someone else's game? Just work on your own damn projects.
Spooky Electric's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/13/2008 13:05
Spooky Electric
Hahaha, Treyarch.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/14/2008 00:35
Kyousuke Nanbu
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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