According to Braben, whose company is developing Kinect Disneyland Adventure, stated in an interview with Edge, ”I think there’s a problem at the moment as big publishers are running scared. What really upsets me is that we have this Call Of Duty-shaped jelly mould, and it’s being used to create games that are all competing for a very narrow niche. That’s very disappointing as a gamer.”
”We do see the occasional game come out that looks at thing from a very different perspective - LA Noire, Red Dead Redemption - and that’s great,” he added. ”But something inside me dies when I see another game that looks exactly the same as all the others.”
Aside from their Kinect game, Braben’s ambitious conspiracy thriller The Outsider is a victim of this bias.
”We got it to a reasonable stage, but it’s currently on hold,” said Braben. ”We’re looking at how we revisit it and when. Certainly we’ll go public on showing the game at some point. I would like it to see the light of day properly as a released game, but we’re going to have to try and work out how best to do that.”
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