[Ferret]

Cuz Interplay ****ed up the marketing campaign.

And no advertising.

Yeah seriously, I found out about FS2 when I went into a game shop and asked if they had Freespace: The Great War, and the guy goes "Well no.. .. But this came out last week."

[Dark Hunter]

But I still hope there will be a FS3.Take Prince Of Persia for example...it had a sequel after how many years?When someone will make the proposal for a new game in THQ,V should choice a FS3,maybe working in tandem with the SCP(dividing money,cough cough).

Except for the fact that Interplay still owns the franchise, or at least some of the rights anyway. THQ and/or Volition would have to get them before that became a possibility.

A financial failure...of course!If only American and English citizens could have the possibility to buy it....

We do. It's just that A) it's an old game and B) most of our gamers have never heard of Freespace, not even the Descent players. I've seen plenty of FS2's in used PC game retailers.

[Mobius]

Here in Italy Descent had a great success,I remember even I was only a child when I read it....
Interplay went down,right?

First of all,FS2 took many features from Colony Wars...

[Dark Hunter]

Interplay isn't quite gone. They're technically still around, but they are so heavily steeped in debt that they can't really do anything.

[Ferret]

Interplay isn't quite gone. They're technically still around, but they are so heavily steeped in debt that they can't really do anything.

Do they still have an office sitting somewhere? Or is it just a few people sitting on brand names at the moment?

[Dark Hunter]

Current state of Interplay (according to Wikipedia):

In Interplay's latest 10-Q SEC filing made on June 21, 2005, it was revealed that under "Commitments and Contingencies" that Interplay Productions has multiple legal proceedings filed against it and has nearly $11 million USD in debt. Of interest is that Interplay received a notice from the IRS stating that they owe approximately $117,000 USD in payroll tax penalties and that Interplay was fined by the California Labor Board $10,000 for failure to meet payroll obligations and that an August 2005 trial date was set, and that Interplay's "general liability, auto, fiduciary liability, workers compensation and employment practices liability, have been cancelled, however Interplay has entered into a new workers compensation insurance plan, Interplay is appealing a separate California Board of Labor fine of $79,000 for having lost their workers compensation plan for a period of time". Under "Contractual Obligations" it is revealed that Interplay does not have a headquarters at present because Interplay, in 2004, forfeited its lease and vacated its office space in Irvine, California.[4]

[spartan_0214]

if I may, DH, that means Interplay is FUBAR in a SNAFU environment, but is too sore to either let go the Freespace copyright or let anyone know who they gave it to. .

[Colonol Dekker]

Why do people insist on pouring salt in the wounds, RF2 was ok, but interplop messed up forever. 

[spartan_0214]

volition did well on that Saint's Row game. . . I played it on a friend's 360, and it was like GTA meets True Crime.

also, who did the dead or alive games (I thought it was Volition, but I could be wrong)...

[Colonol Dekker]

No its team ninja........The film will be poor but full of Boobs so i'll watch it

[ME$$ENGER]

Wha.....there's a DoA film coming? I can't wait to see how bad it's going to be.

[spartan_0214]

I dunno, if they use real people, I think it's gonna suck, but If they use the graphics (and physics) from DOA4. . . 

[Mobius]

physics? You mean that girl..."Armstrong"-my favourite-?

Wasn't DoA made by japanese programmers?

If Interplay goes down once and for all,a FS3 will be possible?

[Dark Hunter]

Depends on what happens to the distribution rights.... I'm not really knowledgeable about this. What does happen to a dissolved company's assets?

[karajorma]

Sold off to the highest bidder generally.

[Wobble73]

I dunno, if they use real people, I think it's gonna suck, but If they use the graphics (and physics) from DOA4. . . 

They're gonna use real people yeah! From what I've seen on the trailers, some real hotties    You want to see how one girl puts on a bra!!!! All while fighting a bloke!!!  8)

For example

[Colonol Dekker]

DOA trailer, I saw this on UK TV............

http://www.uip.co.uk/deadoralive/


Boobs FTW !

[karajorma]

So the movie is about nothing more than scantily clad women hitting people.



Finally a game to movie convertion that stays true to the source material!

[Colonol Dekker]

Mosccurate Game Movie ever !!!

[Ferret]

Wow I always hated the DoA games for that very reason... Time to campaign against this...