| kingofwale said: for those who don't know much about High Voltage.. here's what they've made so far. Games Published Wii Gyrostarr Games Developed Dreamcast NFL QB Club 2001 NFL QB Club 2001 GameCube Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Codename: Kids Next Door - Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E. Hunter: The Reckoning The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy The Haunted Mansion Jaguar NBA Jam: Tournament Edition Ruiner White Men Can't Jump Jaguar CD Vid Grid Nintendo 64 All-Star Baseball 2001 LEGO Racers NFL QB Club 2001 Paperboy PC Ground Control: Dark Conspiracy LEGO Racers Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude - Uncut and Uncensored NBA Inside Drive 2000 NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Vid Grid PlayStation LEGO Racers NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 NCAA Final Four 98 Paperboy Tempest X3: An Inter-Galactic Battle Zone PlayStation 2 Ben 10: Protector of Earth Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Codename: Kids Next Door - Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E. Duel Masters Family Guy Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward (Demo Disc) Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude - Uncut and Uncensored Stitch: Experiment 626 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy The Haunted Mansion Zathura: A Space Adventure PlayStation Portable 50 Cent: Bulletproof G Unit Edition Ben 10: Protector of Earth Blitz: Overtime Family Guy Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law Wii Ben 10: Protector of Earth Gyrostarr Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law The Conduit Xbox Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Codename: Kids Next Door - Operation: V.I.D.E.O.G.A.M.E. Family Guy Hunter: The Reckoning Hunter: The Reckoning Redeemer Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude - Uncut and Uncensored NBA Inside Drive 2002 NBA Inside Drive 2003 NBA Inside Drive 2004 The Haunted Mansion Zathura: A Space Adventure |
As bad as that list is, it does demonstrate a few things ...
First and foremost that High Voltage is not some start up that produced a "Bullshot" in an effort to get investors for their dubious product; they are a (farily) old developer who has produced many bad (and not so bad) games across multiple generations.
Secondly, most of the list looks like licenced crapware which is typically the result of a publisher getting their hands on a licence and finding a developer to produce it at an amazingly low budget; the developer (typically) does the best job they can under these constraints but the quality of the project was determined well before they got their hands on it.
Finally there were some games on that list which were actually enjoyable for what they were; this isn't saying that Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance was the greatest game ever, but it was a competent port of a decent game.
On top of this, I just want people to consider one thing in general. Often smaller developers just start hitting a grove and being able to manage the size of a project, and the technology behind it, at the end of a generation; this means that (unlike large developers) they never are able to truely show off what they can produce. The smaller budgets and technical specs of the Wii (and WiiWare) give these developers the opportunity to compete with the 'Big Boys' and I'm pretty sure there will be crapware developers from the PS2/XBox/Gamecube generation who become decent or primiere developers because of their work on the Wii.
