The title was announced at The Game Awards 2020.
Being one of the games that was playing the most for the event, it must be said that Perfect Dark was featured at The Game Awards 2020this being a reboot of the mythical saga that this time would have The Initiative as the development team behind the project, which stood as one of the great Xbox banners.
Having said all this, it has been more than a year since the last time we had news of the game (in the aforementioned gala), which at first does not have to be bad news, since the logical thing is that they do not want to teach anything else until they have the game sufficiently prepared. However, it seems that there could be another reason behind it, which makes Perfect Dark practically on the tightrope.
The development of The Initiative would be in chaos
The VGC medium has published a new report talking about the situation of The Initiative and, therefore, of Perfect Dark, pointing out that there are serious problems in development which would imply that there are currently less than 50 workers in the study. All this after 34 people have left The Initiative as opposed to just 12 new additions over the last 12 months.
Under this premise, it must be said that this number of dropouts would be almost half of the total staff, to which it should be noted that we knew some important names that had left the studio, being Drew Murray and Dan Neuburger, in the positions of direct design and game director respectively, the losses already announced that, seen what seen, they were but a small part of the pie.
For this reason, the report indicates that casualties include the lead level designer, the lead world designer, two senior system designers, three game designers, the technical director, the art director, the lead animator, the lead engineer, the QA lead, and the two script writers. A real sieve.
Given this, interviews with former workers reveal that there is a lack of creative autonomy in the studioso that the director of The Initiative, Darrell Gallagher, and Dan Neuburger would hardly have given freedom in the development, which led to a slow forward that demotivated the workers, who also mention that the study has not been created in an adequate way.
It should be noted that in September we learned that Crystal Dynamics partnered with The Initiative to help in the development, so, in this situation, the role they play with Perfect Dark may be even greater from what has been seen.
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