Free Radical is no more

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:38 am

http://kotaku.com/5113037/free-radical-shuts-down

There goes any new TimeSplitters games.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:15 pm

the legendz that rose from the N64 FPSs are no more?!?!?!?!?!

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:34 pm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Oh well, I still have TS2 and TS3.

casualsax3 · Post by **casualsax3** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:05 pm

That really sucks.

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:42 pm

I figured it would happen.
Ran out of ideas more than money, I'd think.

Ahh well, maybe Graeme Norgate can join some other awesome project. That or go back to being a bank teller.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:57 am

http://kotaku.com/5114861/free-radical- ... new-studio

There is some hope after all.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:18 am

YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:00 am

there's always hope, *sniffle* *sniffle* Here's hoping it's quality stuff.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:32 am

http://kotaku.com/5145829/crytek-buys-free-radical

Crytek now owns Free Radical. Any thoughts?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:41 am

timesplitters on cryengine?

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:45 am

what an odd turn of events.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:18 am

snkcube wrote:http://kotaku.com/5145829/crytek-buys-free-radical

Crytek now owns Free Radical. Any thoughts?

How much of the talent is still there?

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:11 am

Gil_Hamilton wrote:
snkcube wrote:http://kotaku.com/5145829/crytek-buys-free-radical

Crytek now owns Free Radical. Any thoughts?
How much of the talent is still there?

There doesn't seem to be many left. The founder set up his own company and twenty FRD folks are working there now. It's all sounding like Rare to me.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:01 pm

the question is where are these new companies like the old people from RARE and this group from Free Radical?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:06 pm

so they just formed up their own company a couple months ago and are supposed to have pooped a game out already?

i don't know enough about the people who left rare to comment on them

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:54 am

sweener2001 wrote:so they just formed up their own company a couple months ago and are supposed to have pooped a game out already?

i don't know enough about the people who left rare to comment on them

Platinum Games(where all Capcom's talent went) was formed in 2006 and hasn't got a game out yet.
...
Which says a lot about what it takes to make a game these days, I guess.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:47 am

Their first game (MadWorld) will be out in a month.

Edit: http://kotaku.com/5146707/rip-free-radi ... ame-change

Free Radical is now called Crytek UK. Not really a surprise as this is a common practice for acquisitions.

h4tred · Post by **h4tred** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:15 pm

Crytek now owns Free Radical. Any thoughts?

Lame.

Free Radical is now called Crytek UK. Not really a surprise as this is a common practice for acquisitions.

Even more lame.

i don't know enough about the people who left rare to comment on them

Think about the group in Rare who made Perfect Dark and Goldeneye 007 and you get your answer.

Panzer88 · Post by **Panzer88** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:43 pm

h4tred he doesn't mean free radical, he means the people who left RARE recently like the founders etc.

also the former members of free radical did do goldeneye but not perfect dark, perfect dark was released in 2000 and free radical had already left and been formed early 1999 IIRC.

EDIT:

from wikipedia

wikipedia wrote:Martin Hollis was involved with Perfect Dark for the first fourteen months of its three-year development, during which progress was slow. David Doak left at the end of 1998, and Steve Ellis soon after, to form Free Radical Design. What followed by those remaining on the project was a comprehensive re-design of the game (the story and characters being the main items kept intact). Hollis stated that he was impressed by the comprehensive range of multiplayer options, saying "what a vast array of features I never planned". Doak, however, remarked, "GoldenEye pretty much exhausted the performance of the machine. It was hard to push it further. Perfect Dark had some good ideas but was dog slow."

so some of them were involved with some of the process but not all of it.

basically it was retooled after they left.