Ex-Zipper Employee Sends Anonymous Letter

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Jay520 said:

M.U.G.E.N said:
ugh I call BS. Sony are known for giving more freedom to their devs with the games they make

and can someone who played the game tell me what parts they had that were taken from infamous/uc etc?

Cover system, regenerating health, camera angle, etc etc.

I think your confusing that with EVERY GAME THIS GENERATION.

Honestly those mechanics are not new or exclusive to any of those titles. If this is true then they were trying to push forward generic successful game mechanics that are "oh so popular" among current gamers and mainstream 3rd person shooter titles. Nothing wrong with tested and true mechanics if you're trying to make money and appeal to an audience already receptive to it, just a lack of creativity and originallity can easily be sacrificied placing those mechanics above all else.

I find the mentioning of those titles and the wording used in the letter highly suspect to being fake or at best involving someone at Zipper of little importance. Poor leadership can surely be detrimental, but maybe this was, in part, a ball drop from the Zipper side not being able to handle the transition. 2006 was a rough time to be developing PS3 games and at that being acquired by SONY. A stuggeling studio is not the studio you want to be during Sony's rough financial years. Zipper probably would have faired better by itself, going multiplat, then being acquired by Sony a couple years later. I'm not going to pretend I know anything regarding this situation, so take everything I wrote as speculation.