Harvey Elliott, head of EA’s casual Bright Light studio, has said he was brought into the publishing giant to ”rebirth one of the franchises” six years ago.
He wouldn’t divulge what that was, but added he’d only work on something if they could ”genuinely do something amazing” with those properties. They talk about it ”all the time.”
”I can’t tell you what it was, but I was hired into EA to rebirth one of the franchises,” Elliott told VideoGamer.com.
”This was almost six and a half years ago. Very quickly we realised that there’s something very fundamental in each of those games that makes them so special. I’d only ever want to do that if we could genuinely do something amazing with those products and those franchises.”
”They capture something each of them. They’re of a time, of a generation. There’s a lot of work to faithfully recreate that in a way that we’re all going to be proud of it.”
”You played Bullfrog games, I played a shed load of them. If I’m making a new one of those it’s got to be special to stand up there. It’s definitely something we talk about all the time,” he added.
”I’d always put hope out, yes. There’s hope that one day we’re going to bring back one of those classic IP and everyone’s just going to be blown away by it.” Which classic Bullfrog creation do you want to see return more than anything else? More time in the slack tongue clinic? Maybe you enjoy the Lord of the Land approaching? Spill it, videogamer!
