Gears of War developer Epic Games is getting ready to unveil its latest project at the VGA’s this weekend, and studio president Mike Capps is nervous about how people will react.
“I’m so scared that people will just say, ‘oh yeah, that looks like an Epic game, oh sure’ because I want them to see it as a departure, but I don’t want anyone to say, ‘that doesn’t look anything like an Epic game, forget it, I’m not interested.’ So we’re actually nervous, we haven’t been nervous like this for a while!” Capps told GamesIndustry.biz.
“I’m nervous, this is something I pushed for a lot and I wrote some of the script for the trailer and if everyone hates it, that’s it – I’m out of games for a while.”
No pressure there, buddy!
“It’s something radically different for us,” he said. “New IP, new game. We’re not really talking much about platform or anything like that, but I mentioned at GDCE Europe and my keynote there that we were working on a lot of new projects, and it’s been really refreshing to the team to try some new things.”
“We love Gears, it was a great trilogy, we’ve gotten a lot of great compliments and a lot of great fans, and we’re still supporting Gears 3 very strongly, but I’ve got guys that have been on it since 2001, and some of them need a break and to try something new.”
“So this is going to be one of those projects where we try something totally different, and it just went ‘boom’, because everyone had this pent up energy to do something new. And I can’t wait for them to get back to something like Gears in the future, because it’s sort of our bread and butter, and they’re going to be more energised for it too,” said Capps.
Although Epic Games is now best known for the Gears of War franchise, the studio was also behind the Unreal series, which was in a different lifetime one of gaming’s most important franchises. Shadow Complex, Infinity Blade I & II, and Jazz Jackrabbit are just some of the other great IPs that have come out of the studios.
Lets hope they can pull another one out of the bag!
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