Tomb raider Anniversary Edition -psp- Imprssive video of this ¿cancelled? game

Y2Kevbug11 said:
Crystal Dynamics is owned by Eidos (since 1998), yes, but CORE was liquidated on May 11th. What is left of CORE to design this game?

EDIT: Read the post. Seems like a very small team working.
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Atleast 60 people apparently.

I'd think CD would be busy working on the next control TR given the success of Legend, so it'd be better to allow Core to do this as long as they use the new mechanics. It should be fine, not much to worry about. Add the new controls and we already know the content from the original TR is still great.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
Crystal Dynamics is owned by Eidos (since 1998), yes, but CORE was liquidated on May 11th. What is left of CORE to design this game?

EDIT: Read the post. Seems like a very small team working.
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Core wasn't liquidated by Eidos,the key executives (the Smith brothers and their loyal employees) left after Eidos decided to keep Tomb Raider away from their hands and created the Circle Studio.
Now Core is a small team which has been refocused by Eidos to work on handhelds (mainly on PSP),they have already made two games.

Anyway right from the official Core Design website:
http://www.core-design.com/

"8th June 2006, 12:06:51
Following forum speculation that Core Design is no longer trading, we're pleased to say we're still very much here, so worry not. In fact, we're waiting to officially announce some very exciting news very, very soon. Watch this space."

Of course Eidos has to give a sense to Core existance and making them work on handheld games like remakes of their past games while Crystal is focused on bigger projects is probably the best thing they can do.Crystal will give them the PSP version of the Legend engine (with the support to all the gameplay advancements they have made and the new control system) to make the game.
 
SolidSnakex said:
Atleast 60 people apparently.

I'd think CD would be busy working on the next control TR given the success of Legend, so it'd be better to allow Core to do this as long as they use the new mechanics. It should be fine, not much to worry about. Add the new controls and we already know the content from the original TR is still great.
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I misread it:

Please be patient and appreciate that a particular small Core team (of the 60 development staff at the Derby office which has not been disbanded or closed down and is still making games) is very annoyed with the way this trailer has been dealt with.
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I thought, wrongly, that Derby was another development studio they were located inside of. I didn't realize it was a location.

And Elios:
On May 11, 2006 it was announced that Core's assets and staff were sold to indie development group Rebellion. Eidos still owns the Core brand but it's unlikley there will be anymore new games under the Core Design banner, however an 'Atari'-like regeneration of the name and rebranding of existing games is not unexpected (see Infogrames)
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So Core had nothing remaining other than the name. You could see where I was a little worried.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
And Elios:

So Core had nothing remaining other than the name. You could see where I was a little worried.
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Just read the comments Core has posted on their official website about that :D
They are still alive and they seem to confirm they are making the Tomb Raider remake which will be unveiled very soon.
 
Not much, although the guy the runs TRC said he knows exactly what's going on now but just can't say antyhing. He mentioned that ther eis an announcement coming up soon but they weren't given a date, although now it looks like it could be Monday.
 
It was not only real but it was also 80% complete. And the geniuses at Eidos still canned it. The engine was Core's own engine so they weren't using the Legend engine. Also a PS2 version of it existed.

Depressing
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
It means this is A HOAX OMG
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HOAX ???

The info on the announcement was true, just that is wasnt about TR (yet) but about the Core being bought. Makes me hope there will be a (positive) TR announcement too. From what I read the team is still developing for Eidos, only that they are now a part of Rebellion and Eidos still owns the Core name.
 
SolidSnakex said:
It was not only real but it was also 80% complete. And the geniuses at Eidos still canned it. The engine was Core's own engine so they weren't using the Legend engine. Also a PS2 version of it existed.

Depressing
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Where do I find the info Eidos canned it?
 
WHAT THE HELL CANCELLED?

They said "WATCH THIS SPACE" for exciting news!! Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Our exciting news is the exciting product you saw doesn't really have any chance of ever happening.

Bullshit. Ugh. Whatever, I'm glad. No Legends engine is guaranteed suckitude.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
Bullshit. Ugh. Whatever, I'm glad. No Legends engine is guaranteed suckitude.
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It looked even better than Legend does on the PSP. They haven't said if they changed the controls, but they said they made some tweaks but everything remained true to the original. I was looking forward to another TR game this year but it looks like that's off now.
 
Y2Kevbug11 said:
WHAT THE HELL CANCELLED?

They said "WATCH THIS SPACE" for exciting news!! Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Our exciting news is the exciting product you saw doesn't really have any chance of ever happening.

Bullshit. Ugh. Whatever, I'm glad. No Legends engine is guaranteed suckitude.
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Okay, so is it cancelled for sure now? Because it looks like there was a LOT of work already put into this remake for them to just be like "we changed our minds, so sorry!".

If true, this is extremely depressing. You can't even play the old TR games unless you have the PS games. You can't even play TR1 on windows xp.

I really hope they manage to release this, SOMEHOW. At least for computer.
:(
 
Basic run down from what i've gathered

- 9 months of development
- 80% complete
- In house engine by Core
- PSP and PS2 versions
- Some changes but it was still TR
- Difficulty was ramped up
- If there is a anniversary game it won't use that engine and Core won't be the developer
 
SolidSnakex said:
Basic run down from what i've gathered

- 9 months of development
- 80% complete
- In house engine by Core
- PSP and PS2 versions
- Some changes but it was still TR
- Difficulty was ramped up
- If there is a anniversary game it won't use that engine and Core won't be the developer
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DAMNET! So now they're questioning the possibility of even having an A.E.? They'd have to start from scratch?

I hate it when stuff like this happens.
>:(

Okay so does anyone have a copy of that video that has now apparently been pulled form Google video? Is it now illegal? The game was looking really awesome.
 
SolidSnakex said:
Basic run down from what i've gathered

- 9 months of development
- 80% complete
- In house engine by Core
- PSP and PS2 versions
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Interesting.

- Some changes but it was still TR
- Difficulty was ramped up
- If there is a anniversary game it won't use that engine and Core won't be the developer
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:(

This could have had so much promise.
 
Xdrive05 said:
Okay so does anyone have a copy of that video that has now apparently been pulled form Google video? Is it now illegal? The game was looking really awesome.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8bXR3JvH8

It really looks so good and would've been easily one of the best looking PSP games, it looks like a PS2 actually. A remake of the original made so much sense and now it looks like its not going to happen.
 
Why in the WORLD would you cancel that? It looks almost sellable if they chopped out a level or so that wasn't finished.
 
I still have hope. Maybe there was some trouble lately between Core and Eidos and now with the Rebellion acquisition they have come to an agreement.
 
SolidSnakex said:
Basic run down from what i've gathered

- 9 months of development
- 80% complete
- In house engine by Core
- PSP and PS2 versions
- Some changes but it was still TR
- Difficulty was ramped up
- If there is a anniversary game it won't use that engine and Core won't be the developer
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How big was the team working on this game?

BTW: Thanks for the depressing news. You made my life this |_| much worse!
 
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