Rare made some of my favorite games.  I loved Conker (even bought the Xbox Version and beat it twice), Killer Instinct, the Donkey Kong games, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, and Starfox Adventures.  Rare has a style that makes games look friggin beautiful!  My jaw dropped for DKC, DK64, KI, and SFA.

But I'm not sure I'd be too hyped for more 3D platformers, FPS's (not a genre 8 really enjoy), or fighting games that don't star Ryu.  Rare of old may just be a relic of an older time.  Maybe new Rare is doing what they need to be doing--trying to evolve.  I admit, they haven't blown me away.  I own (but haven't bothered to play) all of the Viva Pinata games, loved Kameo, and respect Kinect Sports.  I still believe that Rare is a good asset for M$ and will be in the future, too.

Rare went to nothing the day the Stamper brothers went with the rest of the real talent. Rare is now appropriate naming for the fact the talent there is now rare

I'd also like to call trollolol, and ask you kindly to get back under your bridge.

Rare aren't making some of the finest games of the generation, as they did with things like Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie and Perfect Dark on N64, but they've evolved as a studio. They're exactly the first party team Microsoft need to be working on Kinect and turning Kinect into a success. I played Kinect Sports recently, and while I wasn't blown away, it's a very good evolution of what Nintendo have done with Wii Sports. Also, I agree with someone else who said Kameo was under-rated.

Bout time you came back Dsister, we need someone with Rare's knowledge, not just selective knowledge when the argument works for them. :D

I like people saying "it's gret they do Kinect sport, Avatar, Viva pinata it('s great and all"

Seriously?

We are talking about a once great studio considered among the best and paid an impressive amount of money who is doing low level stuffs that every other studio could do easily?

Rare is dead, the people who worked there are not in the studio anymore it's like if this was a completely different studio than the old Rare.

Really Rare is dead? So can you tell me who formulated NXE, a hell of a lot of Kinect Software and Kinect Sports, Perfect dark to xbla (also banjo 1 and 2), Viva Pinata 1 and 2, Banjo Nuts and Bolts (I really could continue.)

You are trolling and that is all you are doing, quite a poor attempt as well. :-/

Microsoft has changed direction to cover a wider audience. Rare appears to be the developer charged with spearheading that new focus.

They haven't fallen, they're just on a a different ledge.

And thus, the Xbox 360, Microsoft, every game released on it and every entity to ever work on them has been RUINED FOREVER.

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Haven't I heard this somewhere before?

Rare has fallen. Where are there good games nowadays? Games> Features. They are doing sooooooo much more of stuff that people do not want as much as other stuff. DKC> anything they have done with Microsoft.

You know a developer is great when their best work on modern consoles are ports. I guess if you like snazzy menus though, Rare has got you covered, but as for great new games that they used to be known for, they are no good.