Rebellion gets back into home console development
Category: Xbox 360, Posted: 12/11/2007 at 02:06PM CST by Billy Wang, Previews Editor
After a series of stints in the portable gaming scene, UK developer Rebellion will return to focus on home consoles, which includes a sequel to Eidos Interactive's Shellshock series for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
Jason Kingsley, CEO of Rebellion, spoke with GamesIndustry.biz about the shift back to primary console development. "Next year we'll have our first next-gen project out - Shellshock 2 with Eidos."
As for Shellshock 2, Kingsley said, "It's very much a mature product, it's a bit like Jacob's Ladder or Apocalypse Now in movie terms. It's troubling - deliberately so - it's meant to be challenging the nature of war, the horror and why people do these horrific things to each other."
In addition to Shellshock 2, Rebellion also has plans to push sequels based on its own game IPs, including Rogue Trooper and Sniper Elite and its comic book 2000AD. Kingsley talked about a push towards original products.
"For example, the Rogue Trooper rights for next-gen have come back to us so we're looking at and planning what we can do with that brand, because it was successful and we're very proud of it, so we'd like to do more with it."
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Well, we can always use more developers. And hand-helds suck.
The thing is, did anyone like shellshock? I heard it was a terrible, terrible game. Hmm. Good luck?
Never tried shell shock but Rogue Trooper was kinda fun ..nothing amazing but kinda fun. I wouldn't mind seeing a Rogue Trooper 2 sequel but I'd hope for more focus on story and atmosphere than before and since they burned through most of the cool parts from the comic in the first game that might be problematic.