Rare Tour Shows RareWare Secrets

Thanks to Rare-Extreme for their feature showing an uncommon tour of secretive British game developers Rare, as they note: "If you described it before as Fort Knox, nobody would blame you... The mysterious aura that surrounds Rare's inner workings has done wonders for the British developer in the past." The feature includes many pictures of RareWare's extensive office complex in rural England, and also offers a vague answer to long-standing Internet rumors regarding "a 'hot swapping' feature where players could pull out their Banjo-Kazooie cartridge while the power to the N64 was still on and jam in their Banjo-Tooie cartridge... to use the secrets found in Banjo-Kazooie in the sequel" - apparently, "it was never meant to be in the first place", never functioning properly, and not intended to be found (by Action Replay use) in the N64 cartridges.

Comments

Re:What?!

[gl4ss]

huh? they have their own cafe it seems.

wtf they'd need starbucks or taco for if they can afford a proper cook to make the food/coffee.

terrible article

[TwistedGreen]

Wow, what a terrible article. It looks like it was posted mid-edit.

And what was this?

...and with plans to expand Rare so drastically in the near future it becomes obvious at how committed Rare are to the Xbox and Microsoft's next generation hardware.

What is this, a Microsoft ad? And Rare would obviously be committed to Microsoft, being owned by them and all...

Re:Poorly Written

[FinestLittleSpace]

you're right... i nfact most of the core goldeneye team left, hence why timesplitters was so similar to GE at points. Basically, they lost a lot of the people who made rare RARE.

It's a shame, but theyre still killer developers, regardless of the loss... just not AS killer...