Played_Out said:
That's not true. The Goldeneye/Perfect Dark team left to form Free Radical, and the BK team remains largely intact, but the founding members and brains behind Rare were the Stamper brothers. They were responsible for creating Donkey Kong Country (the second biggest selling game on the SNES) and developed the ground-breaking graphics techniques that set Rare apart from the rest of the pack. They left at the beginning of last year. |
Um you really should try to provide a link. You are wrong.
"Leading the Rare team into the next generation of interactive entertainment as Studio Director is Mark Betteridge, a 19 year veteran of Rare who also worked at Ultimate. As software director at Rare, Mark has led the software development teams and helped create numerous hit franchises over the years. Gregg Mayles, the creative force behind such titles as Donkey Kong Country, Viva Piñata and the next iteration from the Banjo Kazooie franchise, will serve as Creative Director, responsible for overseeing all titles in development and the origination of new IP."
http://news.spong.com/article/11427/Microsoft_Says_Thanks_to_Stamper_Bros?cb=927
As far as I remeber also that The graphics for DK Country (which was the only really groundbreaking graphics they have done in that it was on snes and looked better than alot of PS1 titles at the time.) were simply done on the Jurrassic Park software they used for the film.
Produced using Nintendo's proprietary video game technology, Advanced Computer Modeling (ACM), Donkey Kong Country features stunning, completely computer-rendered graphics. The game's characters were designed using the same software and Silicon Graphic's workstations and supercomputers that helped bring the special effects to life in major motion pictures such as "Jurassic Park" and "Forrest Gump."
http://www.allbusiness.com/consumer-products/computing-products-consumer-software/7087949-1.html
Research first. Stamper bros were no more than busines and Creative.
