Update (09 March, 2010): According to a recent interview on GameSpot, Stuart Black has revealed that Black 2 was indeed in development (as we mentioned in this story) and many of the team working on it moved on to wor💝k on Bodycount.
"I certainly did some preliminary pre-production wඣork on Black 2, once we finished Black, tꦐhe first three or four months. I moved on quite quickly after that," he said.
"A lot of the guys on the team I'm working with here now carried on with t♑hat and did a lot of pre-production for about a year or so onಌ Black 2, before that kind of bit the dust."
Not so much a 'told you so' and more a, 'thankgod we d𒁏idn't say something that turned out to b♔e bollocks'.
Original story:
, Bodycount is a brand new FPS from Codemasters - announced☂ this week in🌊 Official Xbox Magazine UK.
It's in development at Codemasters' Guildford studio and led by Stuart Black, who also worked on Black while at EA 🌱Criteri𝔉on. No, that's not a typo.
You play as a mercenary employed to head into war zones and take out people and facilities connected to an organisation known cryptically as 'T🐷arget'.
The location seen in this first look at the game is in Africa - a🍨 very bright green Africa.This is because Bodycount isadopting a brighter, stylisedcolour palette in🐼 place of the greys and browns of many contemporary FPSs. Here, colour will be lurid and 'Hollywood'. Good. We’re starting to hate brown games.
The dev team🍃's other keyfocuses mentioned in the magazine's featureare in crea𝓰ting powerful, tactile weaponry and impressive destructible environments.
Above: Official Xbox Magazine UK's latest issue has the world exclusive first look at Bodycount
If you ask us, this sounds like Black 2 in all but name - which is no bad thing - the𓃲 features and ambitions announced so fa✃r are resoundingly similar to that of the PS2/Xbox shooter.
If you need your memory jogged, the original split the opinion of many gamers when it was released due to lack of multiplayer and a weak storyline, despite hig📖h-quality visuals and hyper-realisti🔯c guns.
No next-gen sequel has ever surfaced, although about three years ago GamesRadar saw an intern൲al EA release schedule whichincludedBlack 2, with a 'TBC' release date...
To get the ♈full story on Bodycount, check outwhen it goes on ꩲsale this week.
