Developer People Can Fly (of Gears of War: Judgement and Bulletstorm fame) have announced in an ESPI report that they have partnered with Microsoft Corp. to produce a “AAA game” codenamed ‘Project Maverick’ with a production budget of roughly “30 to 50 million US dollars”.
Have a gander at the ESPI report, translated with DeepL, courtesy of Interia.pl.
Hoping to see good things come from this. They did a great job on Gears Judgment and BulletStorm. Their game Outriders was good after you got past some of the story tropes.
Nice
Loved Outriders and I can always use another third person shooter so I hope that’s what People Can Fly is working on for Microsoft.
Agree. I had a few quibbles with Outriders, but it was surprisingly solid for the first entry in a new IP under a publisher like Square Enix. The fact they managed to make such a decent game that was played by a good chunk of folks under those conditions is to be applauded. Use that experience, clean it up, and you’re on your way to something great.
I think that it wil most likely be gears again, but i would prefer it to be jet force gemini.
A successor to BulletStorm would be my game of choice, but I think it will be Gears related.
Isn’t a 30-50 mill budgeting a smaller tier game, Like double a at most?
Always here about triple a games going into the 100 million or more mark.
Either way I am in love the stuff they make.
It depends on the amount of employees and length of the project. Its pricier than a remaster, but less than a Halo.
I would guess on par with Avowed, Alan Wake 2. Plague Tale 2. MS Flight Sim.
Agree. The MOD system in Outriders was great as well. I wonder if they implement something similar in their Microsoft funded and published game. I’m just hoping that it’s a shooter and something similar to Outriders but now that im thinking about it, didn’t People Can Fly have a publishing deal with Take Two Interactive via Private Division that was abandoned or something? If so, I wonder if Microsoft picked it up.
Poland has cheaper labor so 30-50 million gets you around double that.