Mon, Dec 07, 2009 | 15:28 GMT
Total War studio pushing on with console development
Total War developer Creative Assembly’s doing more stuff on 360 and PS3, as proven by the studio’s ongoing search for cross-platform staff.
“The successful applicant will be interested in all things graphics related and work as part of the team developing all aspects of a game specific engine for 360, PS3 and PC,” says this graphic programmer ad.
Here’s another. This one’s for a lead engine programmer: “The successful applicant will lead a team developing all aspects of a game specific engine for 360, PS3 and PC with a view to extending the tech to ‘next next’ gen consoles.”
CA’s console efforts haven’t been especially well received to date, with sci-fi RTS Stormrise managing 48 percent on MC for its 360 version (51 percent for PS3), and the earlier Viking: Battle For Asgard taking 65 and 68 for PS3 and 360 respectively.
The outfit’s next announced game is Napoleon: Total War on PC, slated for February.
Thanks, CinemaBlend.
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7 comments
#1
OlderGamer
07/12/09, 3:34 pm
To be fair Viking was pretty good. Maybe not in some sort of technical achievment/benchmarking type of things. It was hohum in that dept. But where it actualy counted, fun. It was pretty good. I didn’t play stormrise. Console RTS games kinda of scare me.
#2
Ravenblade86
07/12/09, 3:56 pm
Yeah I agree, Viking was a fun game. Wasn’t the greatest action game ever, but it was enjoyable time. Stormrise I was looking forward to, but clearly the ball got dropped, though I’m still hopefully that CA can turn out a good RTS for consoles at some point.
Oh and they also did Spartan: Total Warrior, which has an average Metacritic score of 73, but is actually a rather good action game. It just happened to come out in 2005 after God of War which meant it got badly over looked I think.
#3
El_MUERkO
07/12/09, 3:57 pm
i loved Spartan: Total Warrior and enjoyed Viking, to me it felt like Viking needed another few months in development
i’d like to see them do that ‘loads of bad guys/huge battles’ idea but wrap it in an Diablo-esque RPG enviornment
#4
blackdreamhunk
07/12/09, 3:58 pm
there are meny genres that don’t run well on consoles.
the only types genres these days seems to shooter, shooter shooter shooter.There is like only 4 genres on sonoles. action games and shooters are the only ones that seem to work best on consoles.
flight sims, tbs,tbrpg and meny other genres just don’t work well on consoles.
another game dev who wants to risk going bankuprt.
Oh I found a very good article by the way
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/12/06/pc-gaming-not-hit-as-hard-as-some-estimate/
#5
The_Deleted
07/12/09, 4:52 pm
Viking was great but far too fiddly when it came to the actual fighting. I’d like to see ROME make it to a console in some way, even if it’s akin to Viking.
#6
Hunam
07/12/09, 4:58 pm
They did, Spartan: Total Warrior
#7
OlderGamer
07/12/09, 5:32 pm
I like games like that. Hack and slash old school flavoured games. Toss in a bit of leveling and char development, and I am in. I miss games like Champions of Norath, Dungeon and Dragon Heros, Phantasy Star Online, heck I would be giddy for a well done Gauntlet game.