Microsoft explains why Ruffian is the right choice for Crackdown 2

Aslong as they got someone watching over the production and keeping it within reasonable bounds... i'm all for a bunch of fanboys making the game! :)

because Microsoft doesn't own any good 1st Party devs?

Rockstar North called, they want their idea back.

Between the people who made the original (Ruffian) and the company that made the original (RTW), I am glad they are choosing the former.

That's cool, I guess... I never played the first one so i'm not exactly excited for this one.

Realtime Worlds is only to busy with APB because Microsoft wouldnt let them know if they wanted a sequel, and MS only thought it was selling well because of the halo beta, and didnt think of it as a good game until after Realtime Worlds started their new project.
Anyway, I'll be happy with a Ruffian games sequel, as it seems to have a pretty good development team.

As long as skills still = kills, I'm good

I guess his this was an opportunity to change the art style and plot line to become more in line with industry standards.... i.e. not what you might expect from a sequel to Crackdown....

Not saying the game will be bad.... i was just disappointed with the direction the trailer has shown.
:/

i have no problem with the former lead designer of RTW ,who happens to be the lead designer at RUFFIAN GAMES ,who happens to be the same guy that was in charge of the first crackdown.am all for it .besides we need RTW to make sure APB is a great looking game & one we want at release .for our PC & soon after our 360's .plus we all know what happens when a house has to much work on its plate , something suffers or gets lost in translation .

my boy thinks that any follow up developed by a different developer then the first is automatically CRAP! lol. like call of duty: modern warfare and call of duty: world at war. to me the only difference is the time period the action takes place in and the dogs instead of the heli-copter. otherwise same damn game. enjoyment wise at least. we'll argue over how i think bioshock2 is gonna be insane, w/ multiplayer and all.. he'll say 'i don't know.... it's a new developer.'LOL i'm like "look at the vids. you can see how dope it is." crackdown was def one of his favorites. tried to talk me into getting it a few times but i just didn't like it like that. it was like a cheap imitation of the GTA stuff. i had saints row for that. he's prolly pissed about crackdown 2

I can see my house from here, Agent!

Im glad they switched devs, crackdown was a bad game and hopefully the new dev will improve very much on the sequel

If the Crackdown 1 narrator is not in this game, I'm not buying it.

I loved the first one. Still play it all the time. I really hope Ruffian provides the same "feel" that the first game had.

Didn't RTW start making APB because Microsoft wouldn't let them start Crackdown 2 for over a year? Then when Microsoft finally wants the sequel RTW is chest deep in developing their new IP so they go with a new unproven dev? Seems to me this is Microsoft's fault, you can't expect RTW to just sit around for a year waiting for a project to be approved.

All you people saying Ruffian are "unproven"... they're made up of staff who jumped ship from RTW and some of them worked on the original. How is that "unproven"? Crackdown was good but not *that* good; it has plenty of faults and niggles which can easily be fixed and polished in a sequel. RTW have another unannounced project on the go which I had thought was Crackdown 2, but then E3 brings the Ruffian announcement so I've got no idea what RTW could be working on.

Oh, and I have a PC magazine from 2005 which says APB is "coming very soon". They've been working on that game since forever in one way or another, and the original Crackdown was designed with the old Xbox in mind and it got pushed back to the 360 for some reason. Mind you, you can't blame RTW for that seeing as the original Xbox had a very short life and many games (Dead Space, Perfect Dark Zero and rumour has it Mass Effect) were all shifted in similar circumstances simply because the new console came along before the game was finished. I even heard a rumour that the very original code for Halo 3 was running on the old Xbox and was ported to the 360 at a later date.

BTW I live across directly across the river from Ruffian's office, I can see it from here :D

Your Joystiq posting skills have reached their psychical peak, agent.