Activision Shuts Down Radical Entertainment

"We made you make a sequel to a game that was luke-warm-ly recieved. The sequel didn't sell as well as we wanted it to. You are now going to cease to exist and we will not allow you to create further IPs."
 
I think prototype ultimately had a sequel in it but from what I've read(I haven't had time to play it) Activision doesn't seem to know how to produce anything but expansions. That or they fear the financial risk of making a true sequel. Something big and or a large change in direction. This seems like it's done the opposite and crushed them because even I as a massive prototype fan saw the gameplay trailers and thought well this is just HL:Blue shift or Fear: Perseus Mandate. Same game different perspective. Theres nothing wrong with that it's just not something you'd shill for $60.

EA and Activision are still trying to publish games like it's a physical commodity and have no idea how to weigh it as art and the gamer perception.

This is surprising in light of THQ's near imminent complete collapse from the same willful ignorance.

I don't want these publishers to go away. The money they can pour into gaming means the skies the limit, but it's like that idiot Vegas Tycoon who dumped 10 million into Newt Gingrich without bothering to learn anything about him otherwise he would have seen it was a complete waste of money due to his political stigma.

The point is Actvision didn't do the leg work before dumping time and money into this game and as usual the only people that got hurt were the people at the bottom of the pyramid.
 
Well I think that these studios aren't losing their touch suddenly. I believe that the project managers are forcing these guys to regurgitate the same idea that made the game a hit over and over. The customers are expecting the same game but with new fresh ideas tacked on. When they see the exact same thing they played last year they skip the title.

None of the big conglomerates understand this as they treat gaming like it is real estate. House is worth 300k. If I make another house and place it right beside this house I will make another 300k. Customer rides by and thinks, "Why would I want my house to look exactly like my next door neighbor's house? How tacky!" Big gaming company blames the lack of interest in the second house on the economy and fires the architect and home builders.

Like you said gaming is an art that people are smitten by when a Picasso is created. Big gaming corporations will never understand that concept and keep forcing their talent to make sequels to appease the stockholders.
 
Does this mean we won't be getting the PC version (or port) of Prototype 2? I was looking forward to it.
 
I was never much of a fan of Prototype. I thought Infamous (which came out around the same time and was somewhat of a competitor in the genre) was way better.
 
MavericK96 said:
I was never much of a fan of Prototype. I thought Infamous (which came out around the same time and was somewhat of a competitor in the genre) was way better.
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Prototype has it's issues but it wasn't bad. Activision should have released it a few weeks before inFamous or waited until early the next year.
 
No one is playing GTA clones anymore. If you don't come up with something new, why would anyone pay you more money?
 
Russ said:
No one is playing GTA clones anymore. If you don't come up with something new, why would anyone pay you more money?
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Every open world game is not a GTA clone. Why do people keep claiming as much?
 
Loved hulk ultimate destruction... one of the few original Xbox games to run at 720p. Prototype was basically the same game but without the hulk and it didn't interest me. I think their games would have sold better if they maintained the hulk licenseing. But now we will never get a ultimate destruction 2 :-(
 
The first one was so much fun and I read that Prototype 2 was actually profitable, just not CoD profitable. Soon all Activision will have is lame CoD and maybe starcraft.
 
Derangel said:
Prototype has it's issues but it wasn't bad. Activision should have released it a few weeks before inFamous or waited until early the next year.
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It was kind of boring... You start off as this guy with all these powers...in a "open world". But the problem is it's made of samey looking blocky cut and paste skyscrapers, so there wasn't any compelling reason to explore. You just end up fighting all these samey weak humans that are next to 0 challenge. Every fight seemed to be waves and waves of weak assed humans, with occasional tanks, then helicopters (the enemies must have had great recruiting even with the high mortality rate).

Theres only so much you can run around a city with nothing really to do before it gets dull. I think it had potential, but it never seemed to do anything with it (at least the the begining of the game, I only played it for a few hours and just nothing really unique seemed to happen other than the same enemies over and over). There wasn't really an interesting story either.
 
DeathPrincess said:
It was kind of boring... You start off as this guy with all these powers...in a "open world". But the problem is it's made of samey looking blocky cut and paste skyscrapers, fighting all these samey weak humans that are next to 0 challenge. Every fight seemed to be waves and waves of weak assed humans, with occasional tanks, then helicopters (the enemies must have had great recruiting even with the high mortality rate).

Theres only so much you can run around a city with nothing really to do before it gets dull. I think it had potential, but it never seemed to do anything with it (at least the the begining of the game, I only played it for a few hours and just nothing really unique seemed to happen other than the same enemies over and over). There wasn't really an interesting story either.
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Its fun to pick up and play for half hour to an hour just not one you want to burn through.
 
Kinda sucks. Prototype one seemed like a poor imitation and stripped down version of Spiderman Web of Shadows. I would of rather seen a WoS 2 than Prototype 2.

Reviews look decent on the new Amazing Spiderman but no PC release?!? WTF
 
DIscounting Blizzard, COD is the only thing Activision has now. Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk have both died in the arse, and the rest of the lineup consists of shitty Marvel superhero and 007 cash-ins.

Once the COD bubble bursts (with signs pointing to that happening with BLOPS2), Activision will have nothing it can put its own brand on and it will be up to Blizzard to bring in the money.
 
Plague_Injected said:
DIscounting Blizzard, COD is the only thing Activision has now. Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk have both died in the arse, and the rest of the lineup consists of shitty Marvel superhero and 007 cash-ins.

Once the COD bubble bursts (with signs pointing to that happening with BLOPS2), Activision will have nothing it can put its own brand on and it will be up to Blizzard to bring in the money.
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True but Blizzard has the franchises and makes shit tons of money. People whine about the reduced player base of WoW yet it still has 10.6 Million subs per month , that's a huge amount of money for them each month. D3 was a huge success (well money wise..) and WoW and SC2 have expansions coming soon.

Activision will not die off quickly ..unfortunately , without COD.
 
RogueTrip said:
Kinda sucks. Prototype one seemed like a poor imitation and stripped down version of Spiderman Web of Shadows. I would of rather seen a WoS 2 than Prototype 2.

Reviews look decent on the new Amazing Spiderman but no PC release?!? WTF
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Huh? Radical has nothing to do with the Spider-Man games, those are developed by Beenox.

PC version of Amazing is coming in August or something I think. Game is pretty fun but it's not worth anything beyond a rental. $50-60 is way to much for it.
 
PC version of Prototype 2 is out tomorrow. Anyone give a damn?
 
Q-BZ said:
PC version of Prototype 2 is out tomorrow. Anyone give a damn?
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Q-BZ said:
PC version of Prototype 2 is out tomorrow. Anyone give a damn?
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Played the first and had fun, played the second and returned the next day, not sure what happened but it want a very good game.
 
That's a shame, I loved the first one. Yeah, your guy is OP as hell, but it's a damn good time. I was planning on getting the sequel for PC, but without patches, I'll have to wait for the bargain bin.
 
cageymaru said:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...al-prototype-2-pc-still-on-track/#more-113986

And now, a rather chilling thought, brought to you by BioWare’s Manveer Heir: “With Activision closing down Radical today they have 12 internally owned studios. Six of those are working on Call of Duty products.”


Wow! Now that's sticking all of your eggs into one basket!
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That has more to do with half of Infinity Ward leaving. Once that happened it took 3 studios to do what IW did by itself to finish MW3.

In fact ive yet to see a good quality game resulting from a collaboration of studios.
 
B2BigAl said:
That's a shame, I loved the first one. Yeah, your guy is OP as hell, but it's a damn good time. I was planning on getting the sequel for PC, but without patches, I'll have to wait for the bargain bin.
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I'll wait for a drastic cut in the price as well. Games that don't have support are a tough buy.
 
B2BigAl said:
That's a shame, I loved the first one. Yeah, your guy is OP as hell, but it's a damn good time. I was planning on getting the sequel for PC, but without patches, I'll have to wait for the bargain bin.
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The problem is, from what I gather: This game IS the first game over again basically with a different and fairly unlikable character for the player to control this time around.

A number of reviews and feedback kept saying: "This would have been a nice expansion pack" and "this is basically the same game getting a double dip release" and some such.


I liked the first game. My problem with it, and again reviews have confirmed this on 2, is that it was unbelievably repetitive after a point and I simply lost interest.

This one doesn't even have the prospects of getting any patches or support so I'd say wait for the bargain bin basement special which will come fairly quickly as I expect the PC sales to be even more abysmal than the console sales that got these guys shut down.
 
I have heard that vivendi basically does not like their relationship with activision. As such they are going to start making it hard for activision to be very competitive. This will lead activision to turn out more crap to try to stay afloat. Unlikely anyone will buy them, as viviendi will take out loans or something against activisions value. It looks to be really ugly and activision will keep canabalizing their brands / studios.
 
MavericK96 said:
I was never much of a fan of Prototype. I thought Infamous (which came out around the same time and was somewhat of a competitor in the genre) was way better.
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Bought Prototype first, good grief did that game drag on. Then got Prototype for free after the PSN hack, a much better game, want to get the second one.
 
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