Wed, Aug 05, 2009 | 19:01 BST
Plague: Perry talks about multi-million dollar cancellation
David Perry has spoken out about his multi-million dollar title which Atari dropped three years ago.
“It was going to be called Plague,” Perry told Eurogamer. “It was a really big idea: lots of new hooks – kind of me. I wanted to get back to old Shiny where it was always a surprise and lots of new hooks and things you’d never seen before.
“The idea was you could fire nano-weapons into things that would actually generate objects and delete objects in real-time. It was pretty neat. I was working with a book author, and we were going to get a movie made. It was a big deal.
“But it was a little too big for Atari. They weren’t ready for that.”
Perry stated that his idea for the game is “nowhere near done yet”.
“Am I done with big games? Hell no. But I’m way too busy to do one right now,” he said.
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5 comments
#1
anasui
05/08/09, 7:37 pm
I look forward to the day Perry doesn’t sound like a complete arrogant asshat, but that’d be the day England retakes America
#2
Dr.Ghettoblaster
05/08/09, 7:39 pm
He looks like he’s thinking…”helllloooooooooo ladies”
#3
SunKing
05/08/09, 7:44 pm
“He looks like he’s thinking…’helllloooooooooo ladies’”
If you think that photo is amusing then you obviously haven’t seen the Eurogamer front page yet…
#4
keyodai
05/08/09, 7:56 pm
Why does this Perry guy make himself look like an idiot? And why is he important? Since when did he or his studio make a game worthy of attention since Earthworm Jim?
#5
Neolucifer
06/08/09, 12:14 pm
what’s funny is he constantly have some excuse for not releasing games since the 90s …