Despite all the wars, conflicts and battles that have featured in video games over the years, perhaps the industry's most thrilling stand-off is occurring right now in the real world.
Since Infinity Ward's top dogs Jason West and Vince Zampella were sacked by Activision, only to form Respawn Studios and sign a deal with EA, there's been a mass exodus of Infinity Ward's top members, which shows no sign of ending any time soon.
The Infinity Ward exodus continued when veteran programmer Jon Shirin announced his resignation from the company on Twitter on Monday - followed by designer Mackey McCandlish, who revealed he was leaving on Facebook.
The saga continued yesterday when long-time Infinity Ward staffers Mark Grigsby and Paul Messerly - lead animator and lead character animator, respectively - left the studio, according to their LinkedIn profiles.
To date it's known that at least ten per cent of Infinity Ward's staff have departed the company - whether they will join Respawn is yet to be seen.
Meanwhile, in a little slice of gold, our friends over at PC Gamer have made a special 'updated' version of the Modern Warfare 2 credits. They pretty much highlight how much influence will be missing for MW3:
Someone should make a game about this whole ordeal...
Six (6) people are credited with writing the story for MW2.
What story, exactly? I recall that there was some snow, an airport, a man with a skull for a face, and a dude with a knife in his eye... but a STORY? That's not the way I remember it...
i can see evry1 from infinity ward going to respawn entertainment and making a game which everyone will by and it will p**s activision off so much the will try to kill them
I HOPE THIS ALL MEANS NO MORE CALL OF DUTY!!!!!!! THE END OF COD WOULD BE NOTHING BUT GOOD FOR THE INDUSTRY. HOPEFULLY EVERYONE WILL GET OVER THIS MODERN/REALISM/WARFARE OBSESSION. IT'S LAME, MINDLESS, UNINSPIRED, & BORING. LET'S BRING BACK ART, STYLE, FANTASY, & STORY. (SORRY, I DON'T USUALLY ADD TO THE 99% OF PEOPLE'S NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON THESE THINGS, BUT SOMETHING SERIOUS NEED TO BE DONE ABOUT PULLING GAMING BACK ONTO THE RIGHT PATH).....
I HOPE THIS ALL MEANS NO MORE CALL OF DUTY!!!!!!! THE END OF COD WOULD BE NOTHING BUT GOOD FOR THE INDUSTRY. HOPEFULLY EVERYONE WILL GET OVER THIS MODERN/REALISM/WARFARE OBSESSION. IT'S LAME, MINDLESS, UNINSPIRED, & BORING. LET'S BRING BACK ART, STYLE, FANTASY, & STORY. (SORRY, I DON'T USUALLY ADD TO THE 99% OF PEOPLE'S NEGATIVE COMMENTS ON THESE THINGS, BUT SOMETHING SERIOUS NEED TO BE DONE ABOUT PULLING GAMING BACK ONTO THE RIGHT PATH).....
Infinity ward fail anyway. I was expecting mw2 to be AMAZING but it was rushed. Heart beat sensors for multiplayer was just taking the mic. MW2 Is for n00bs because you get points for doing the smallest thing
Like I said in a previous post (in a roundabout sorta way) not everyone will be buying Respawn Ent's new game as it was the idiots that left IW who appear responsible for the clusterf**k of a console port to PC of MW2.
Unless West & Zampanella pony up the goods this time, i'll stick with DICE products thank you very much.
They might as well have left a sign that says "Jesse Stern sucks!" in the story department, poor thing.
I have to say I was bitterly disappointed by MW2 single player. I felt that they followed the COD "b" team in becoming more concerned by cinematic moments rather than cool level design. Too much "look at this cool thing" and not enough "Do this cool thing".
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