| --OkeyDokey-- said: Meh, I expect reviews to be in the low 50's - mid 60's, no higher than that. I honestly can't understand why anyone would want a totally lame and generic looking shooter from a developer that has made nothing but shit in it's 15 year history. |
Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to see this game get in the 70s or 80s for one simple reason ... High Voltage is funding the development.
Now a lot of people don't understand why this would be important and I will explain. There are tons of developers like High Voltage which develop (often crappy) licenced games mainly because they have built a reputation for being able to accept a project, produce it on time and on/under budget; in spite of what a lot of people would assume these developers are not necessarily untalented, they just tend to be under very strict time and budget constraints where they simply can't produce a 'Great' game.
Being that they're funding the development themself it is fair to assume that they no longer want to be associated with licenced games and may want to become a well respected developer. This also gives them a certain benefit that other developers don't have, if they end up in a position where their budget is depleted and they could use an additional 6 to 12 months of development to polish their title they can then approach a publisher who will take on the project because it will become very low risk; in contrast, games like Lair and Haze were dumped on the market well before the developer would have thought that the game was complete which resulted in low quality games.
