Ambivalent reviews
and country-wide bans is
not going to keep Marc Ecko from lauding his new game, Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. In part one of
two-part interview with metro, Ecko talks rather bluntly about his game and the industry as a whole.Ecko laments that missing Black Friday (the game was initially set to come out in the fall) was unfortunate, but "the code wasn't ready." Ecko decided that President's Day was the next best day: "schools are off, sales in the mall, it's just Marketing 101"--that, and it gave programmers time to tighten up the code. In terms of the game itself, and its reviews, Ecko grieves that critics are "gamers that have a predisposition to have a bug up their ass for anything urban." He may have a point: starting with Grand Theft Auto, urban-themed games (such as the recently-released 25 to Life and 50 Cent: Bulletproof) have diluted the genre very early in its popularity...then again, it may just be a mediocre game with excellent voice acting.
Of course, Ecko has something to say Australia, Michael Bloomberg, and other critics of the title: "I think it’s demonization of graffiti, demonization of technology, the generational disconnect." He plans on sending Bloomberg and Queens city councilman Peter Valone copies of Getting Up so that they can, presumably, play it for themselves.
Part two should be up within the week.
