Ubisoft moves I Am Alive from Darkworks to Shanghai

by JC Fletcher { Mar 6th 2009 at 10:04AM }

I Am Alive, the first-person survival game, has switched developers. Darkworks, who had been working on the game for over three years, is out; Ubisoft Shanghai is in. According to a Ubisoft statement, the change is a mutual decision, done "in order to respect the new launch date for this ambitious title" (sometime this fiscal year) and to allow Darkworks time for its "other obligations."

It's likely that Darkworks' contract with Ubisoft is up and Ubisoft decided not to renew it, possibly to keep costs down. The timing is right, considering that March is the original release date for I Am Alive.

[Via Develop]

Tags: darkworks, i-am-alive, ubisoft, ubisoft-shanghai

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

baby sea tuna @ Mar 6th 2009 10:12AM

Whew. Thanks for taking the guesswork out of it for us, Ubi. With Shanghai on the job, at least we *know* it'll be shitty.

Jerk Face @ Mar 6th 2009 10:16AM

This makes me really sad. I want this game to be good. I really, really do. This is not promising news..

baby sea tuna @ Mar 6th 2009 10:24AM

Believe me, I did too. It sounded like a 3rd person combination of Fallout and I Am Legend, with some Splinter-Cell-esque platforming thrown in. Unfortunately, I have yet to play a game by Ubi Shanghai that hasn't severely disappointed me.

Andyman @ Mar 6th 2009 10:21AM

I'm sure they will include a stealth system based off of red, yellow, and green lights.... *tear*

F1 @ Mar 6th 2009 10:29AM

For the love of the gaming gods please let them do THIS one right!

Levi @ Mar 6th 2009 10:49AM

This has been on my list for a while now. It seems like a much more realistic take on post nuclear war than Fallout. They understand that nuclear war isn't going to change the blue skies or sunshine ;P I kid, Fallout was good.

What games did Shanghai do?

baby sea tuna @ Mar 6th 2009 11:16AM

Every other splinter Cell game (aka the bad ones) and the last-gen versions of GRAW, and Endwar.

Levi @ Mar 6th 2009 11:28AM

None of which I've played. What is GRAW? I've heard it mentioned quite a bit in the playstation forums.

deathxrebirth @ Mar 6th 2009 11:42AM

GRAW = (Tom Clancy's) Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.

tmacairjordan87 @ Mar 6th 2009 12:42PM

Last I knew this has nothing to do with nukes. It's apparently a massive earthquake that devastates Chicago.

Levi @ Mar 6th 2009 1:18PM

Oh. Still looks cool.

deathxrebirth @ Mar 6th 2009 11:41AM

That metacritic article makes even more sense now. You take a game that has been worked on for 3 years by one studio and just give it to another studio?

Unless the game is mostly finish and all that needs to be added is some good polish, but I am guessing that is not the case.