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Urban-Themed Video Games 'Basically Dead'?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fewer-boyz-less-hoodz dept.

simoniker writes "Midway CMO Steve Allison has been talking about why he thinks the urban game genre isn't worth entering, suggesting of the cancelled Snoop Dogg/John Singleton collaboration Fear & Respect, which was in development at Midway: 'We killed Fear and Respect... because we have enough data-points to know the hood thing is basically dead. It would be dead before it came out. And you don't want to come out on a dead vibe.' Do people really not care about GTA-style urban shooters any more?"

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  1. Careful there, Busta Rhymes by hal9000(jr) · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're getting a bunch of 35 year-old, predominantly-white, middle-class geeks to develop your "hip" urban game!

    I am a 35 year-old, predominantly-white, middle-class geek, and I like my urban combat set to the preconceived sounds and images pumped out by Hollywood.

    Werd. :)

  2. Re:Urban-themed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The joke ---> .

    Your head --> O
                 /|\
                 / \

  3. Re:I agree by grub · · Score: 2, Informative


    Don't sell your System Shock 2! If you're unable to install it under Win2k or XP just enter "[cd drive]:\setup.exe -lgntforce" from the command line and SS2 (and Thief 1) will happily install.

    --
    Trolling is a art,