Half of Rare working on secret projects

One of those secret projects better be a new Blast Corps. >:[

I think half of Rare is planning a rebellion against their Microsoft overlords, the other half are enjoying their Earl Grey.

For God's sake, what is with the media's obsession with hating Kameo? Not only was it an excellent launch title that still holds up well today, but an 81% average at Gamerankings.com is hardly considered a kick in the groin by any stretch. if the media's going to have a hate-on, it should at least be consistent with the reviews.

I really wonder how many people actually played this game all the way through before condemning it.

Naw, I bet it's only half good news. Like "New Killer instinct"(Yay) only on DS and PSP(hiss)

You know if Kameo was longer it would have been a much better game. I thought it made a great rental.

I liked Kameo...

Maybe they're secretly working on a -good- Banjo game?

I really hope the sequel for Kameo is in the works. I love that game.

perfec dark please

I still play the good Perfect Dark regularly, so here's hoping for KI3.

Return of Conker! I love that little guy.

I miss the Rare of the N64 days, they could do no wrong.

yes i would love to see a new conker game

I have to wonder if you (Justin) have even played Kameo in any serious way.

It's a great game, but it was marketed really badly, and like a lot of Rare games since they've come to Microsoft (hell, even before that, JFG says hello), it wasn't clear either what kind of game it was or who it was supposed to be for (too difficult by far for kids, too kiddy looking for a lot of adults).

Conker's Other Bad Fur Day, please.

We still play Bad Fur Day on N64 every once and a while (Beach is the best multiplayer game ever!), and I occasionally find myself playing L&R online... Though there is a severe lack of people playing in the last year, and that they never released any DLC makes it get old fast anymore. And they still have one of the best stories of any game.

Banjo Kazooie 1 on DS?


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Please?

if they do make a KI 3 they better use the same opening theme song....because that song kicked ass....

I actually liked Kameo. I know that's unpopular to say, but I don't think it was a bad game.

Perfect Dark Zero however...that was a servicable game at the time. The multiplayer was fun for a first gen game, but has been very quickly outdated. And the storytelling was bad and much too brief.

(laughing)

you can't blame Rare for keeping anything they're working on under wraps. hell, i wouldn't even admit being an employee...

I don't really get all all the Rare hate. Under Nintendo, they made some of the worst games of all time. Donkey Kong Country, Starfox Adventures, etc. They've been a little hit and miss with Microsoft so far, but again, I don't Perfect Dark Zero was a terrible game, it was outdated, played too much like the original and suffered from the shifted development, but it wasn't a horrible game.

Kameo, although being really short was an excellent, and very unique platformer, and Viva Pinata is easily one of the best games they have ever made, I have to laugh at anyone who would consider it merely a kids game, or a "4Kids tie in".

I find it very difficult to believe any child could comprehend the amount of strategy the game required on the later levels - which is probably why they're adding in the sandbox mode for the new version - but even the 4Kids cartoon series had a surprising amount of puns and innuendo that clearly wasn't aimed at the kids watching.

I can only assume those claiming Rare have lost their touch, are the disgruntled Nintendo fanboys.

It was the little things about PDZ that pissed me off. Like how it was a prequel and she was somehow no longer british or the previous game seemed to have more and better guns.