It wasn’t just their name attached, with some likeness and a few songs tossed in, the surviving Beatles ”were involved” with the games development.
Lead designer Chris Foster has told how ”Paul and Ringo, Olivia and Yoko” were really there helping them keep the game authentic to the Beatles experience, with even some heckling.
”The shareholders, as we call them – Paul and Ringo, Olivia and Yoko – were really creative partners throughout the project. They were involved in picking and approving the song list, the venues we went into,” Foster told Crispy Gamer in an interview.
”With the dreamscapes, they saw storyboards of all of the material, and gave feedback on whether or not they felt like those interpretations supported the songs in the way they wanted.”
”They looked over all the characters, the animations … they really kept us honest on whether we were capturing the spirit of the band as they were performing, which was a huge challenge for us,” he went on.
”At every milestone they improved it. I think Sir Paul McCartney heckled our project lead’s bass-playing when he saw one of the game demos. So yeah, they were involved.”
There you go, the entire game was basically sprung from a McCartney riff. Are you a Beatles fan looking for some glory from the old days?
