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Gearbox Readying WWII Shooter For UbiSoft?

Posted by simoniker on from the band-of-chiefs dept.

Thanks to IGN PC for its news story discussing rumors that Halo PC and Half-Life add-on developer Gearbox Software is creating a World War II team-based shooter for publishers UbiSoft. The piece points to the WarStory.net webpage, which is trailing a Gearbox product with screenshots and quotes, and IGN PC claims that: "According to several sources in the know, it's temporarily called Baker's Dozen", although "the name isn't finalized just yet" - an official announcement is expected in the next few weeks.

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  1. Maybe they should finish Halo first! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hmmm perhaps they should be finishing PC halo before setting out on new projects...and finish the damn HEK (Halo Editing Kit) that was promised "soon" back when Halo PC was released. Count me out of any future gearbox titles!

    1. Re:Maybe they should finish Halo first! by BladesP9 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      From what I understand - Microsoft has put the brakes on the Halo Editing Kit... I remember reading that somewhere. I think it had something to do with the PC/Mac version of Halo not being "more valuable" than their Xbox title by making it "modable". I want to also predict that you will never see Halo II for the PC or Mac.....

  2. Band of Brothers by antime · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Looking at the Warstory.net pages it's quite obvious they wanted to do a Band of Brothers game but couldn't get the license (or didn't try to).

  3. Re:Yet another WWII game? by Randy+Pitchford · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I find it interesting that whenever we hear about a game like Quake or Halo or Breed or Chrome or Half-Life or freakin' Halo for that matter that people don't come out with "Isn't the Sci-Fi market saturated?!?" Same can be said for any subgenre... The truth is that anything based on familiar ground has been toyed with before. While we haven't been lacking any game set within a WW2 context what we have been lacking is: - A half-way interesting/engaging story - Authenticity as strong and well researched as SPR or BoB - Real squad combat and tactics (as opposed to "Army of One" games that are basically like Half-Life with WW2 textures). Gearbox is telling this particular story because it has wanted to for many years and finally has the capacity and technology to tell the story it wanted to tell. It's concept was born prior to MoH: AA and it started actual pre-production before Call of Duty was an inked deal...

  4. Re:Ultimate WW2 Game by Randy+Pitchford · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about three out of four? It's just difficult to do BF1942's vehicle system if you want to blow Day of Defeat out of the water with authenticity and realism... Having said that, any authentic game about the subject must also have authentic vehicles :)