We promise this isn't one of our bizarre and contrived theme days, we just happen to have two stories about now-defunct Free Radical, the founder of which has gone on to form his own Facebook game design studio. It's called (tragically) Zinkyzonk.
Before he created the House That TimeSplitters Built, David Doak was one of the designers on GoldenEye, so he's definitely got the experience and chops. But if he's looking to unseat Dolphin Olympics 2 as Facebook game king, he'd better get that nose to the grindstone yesterday.
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Posted: Aug 12th 2009 11:13PM (Unverified) said
Lolwut. Facebook studio? Zinkyzonk?
I honestly dont know what to say to this. Fail, i guess.
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I honestly dont know what to say to this. Fail, i guess.
Posted: Aug 12th 2009 11:42PM (Unverified) said
It didn't play like shit. It was average, gameplay-wise. However, some of the weapons were quite creative.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 9:36AM StormEagle said
TimeSplitters 2 was great. I don't know what you guys are smoking. That game was the second coming of Goldeneye hands-down. Future Perfect on the other hand...not so great.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 12:11AM advancedcaveman said
Timesplitters look and played great, it’s just that people for whatever reason can’t seem to digest any sort of first person shooter that fails to present a gritty, realistic world of non-descript bald men who waddle slowly around a series of interchangeable, hyper-linear levels and use a large assortment of identical machine guns and sniper rifles to repeatedly shoot at various generic industrial aliens or terrorists or alien terrorists or whatever.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 12:16AM (Unverified) said
Oh, fuck that. I honestly prefer 'Splitters to the likes of Halo and such.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 12:17AM (Unverified) said
And Cortez is bald and fairly nondescript, so there you go.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 1:51PM incendious said
From developing on one of the most difficult platforms and failing to developing on one of the easiest. I guess there shouldn't be any excuses this time around.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 8:04AM (Unverified) said
From one of the best console FPSs of all time to Facebook games. Tragic. Even iPhone app development would be above Facebook games.
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Posted: Aug 13th 2009 9:34AM StormEagle said
Oh, Dr. Doak...How I loved shooting thee infinite times in the face.
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