{"id":12287,"date":"2011-06-09T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"respawn-project-is-a-more-sci-fi-oriented-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12287-respawn-project-is-a-more-sci-fi-oriented-shooter","title":{"rendered":"Respawn project is a \u201cmore sci-fi oriented\u201d shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who don&#8217;t recall, Respawn Entertainment was formed by  erstwhile ex-Infinity Ward renegades Vince Zampella and Jason West, who left the  Activision fold in tumultuous circumstances shortly after the Modern Warfare 2 success, taking with them a <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/5871-Respawn-takes-16th--Infinity-Ward-Employee.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"large number of senior developers\">large number of senior developers<\/a> from the studio. Lawsuits are still pending.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at E3 2011, EA&rsquo;s Frank Gibeau talked up the publisher&rsquo;s FPS brands and its &ldquo;rotation strategy&rdquo; for launches, and dropped an oblique hint about Respawn Entertainment&rsquo;s latest project in the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In general we&#8217;re going to continue to follow our rotation strategy of giving studios a full two-year cycle to get a game built and polished to maximum quality, but we&#8217;re going to do it in a way that allows us to maximise technology investments like Frostbite 2, the online service models that we&#8217;re doing&#8230; we&#8217;re going to be able to trade team knowledge and increase the quality of the products year in, year out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea is to have that rotation happen with Battlefield and Medal of Honor and keep it fresh so you don&#8217;t burn the teams down or over-annualise the product lines,&#8221; said Gibeau.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Titles like Respawn &#8211; and I think the Insomniac title is a little bit more of an action game than a pure shooter &#8211; we&#8217;ll sprinkle those in where we see opportunistic gaps, either in a release schedule or in a genre standpoint. Those typically are more sci-fi oriented shooters, where as the Medal of Honor and Battlefield brands are obviously more modern military oriented,&#8221; said Gibeau.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it allows us to pick and choose the best of the sci-fi shooters. It allows us to compete with things like Gears and Halo and put them on places in our release calendar where they&#8217;re not cannibalistic to the core business and that&#8217;s the essential strategy going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Respawn Entertainment has yet to formally announce their first title, but speculation has had it for some time already that they&rsquo;d be working on a sci-fi shooter.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/14553-Respawn-Entertainment-project-is-a-&ldquo;more-sci-fi-oriented&rdquo;-shooter-says-EA\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Respawn project is a &ldquo;more sci-fi oriented&rdquo; shooter\">Respawn project is a &ldquo;more sci-fi oriented&rdquo; shooter<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Infinity Warders working on something to \u201ccompete with things like Gears and Halo\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}