Don't feel so bad about the delay of Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2; it's for the best. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemont said in an investors conference call yesterday that it's "a question of polish."
"The team was asking that they couldn't be with the level of quality on all the maps and all the game for the end of the year," he says, "so they had asked for more time to be able to come with a better product, for both games."
Based on my personal experience with both games, I'd say that Red Steel 2 could probably benefit from more time in the oven. The ideas were there, but that "polish" Guillemont speaks of certainly was not. Conviction, on the other hand, looked about as polished as it could get; the game even leads the way as GamePro's cover story on hot fall games.
But of course, little polished slices of game are difficult to judge, and not indicative of the product as a whole. Guillemont confirms those suspicions.
"The quality of the games is there for what you've been able to see at E3, but we were not able to have that same quality on the full game of those two products," he explains.
No worries, we're patient. We can wait, right?
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8:00 AM on 07.28.2009
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Anyway I'm all for polish but I can't shake the feeling that MW 2 had more to do with this delay( and all the delays for that matter) than polish issues.
I'd like to be able to devote 100% of my attention to Splinter Cell.
Also, damn Polish taking our jobs!
I'm all about quality (hey, its what I do), but I'm just finding it very hard to believe that the industry is making a none-too-subtle paradigm shift to "its released when its ready".
If so, fantastic. Buut I think the industry's business side is showing.
Who knows, at this rate we might not have ANYTHING to buy this fall!
...No.
..Surely not.
...They wouldn't.
..Never.
As for the £55 price tag on MW2, well, MW2 can get away with that because it's MW2. I don't think other games will.
I still say Modern Warfare is striking fear in everyone. Except for Valve cause L4D2 is still releasing a week after.
It'll be April or early summer before we see Sam Fisher again. He'll be a last generation toon by then. Good riddance.
What worries me is whether the delay is because they actually are so devoted to the game that they want it to be as absolutely great as they can make it... or the delay is because Modern Warfare 2 coming out, and they just sit on RS2 and do nothing to improve upon it.