Thu, Feb 18, 2010 | 05:34 GMT

David Jaffe on Calling All Cars: “I’d call it a mistake”

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Jumping ship from the world’s most popular franchise about an exceedingly angry man who kills gods and has threesomes to a small game about smaller cars seemed like something of an odd choice for God of War director David Jaffe. At least, to those of us in the Internet’s ever-vocal peanut gallery.

Turns out, though, that Jaffe regrets it too – just not for the reasons you might expect.

“We made a rookie mistake as a new studio doing smaller games,” said Jaffe during 2010′s DICE summit. “We had a casual theme with a hardcore mechanic on a machine people had paid $500 for. Nothing matched up. If I were going to go back and remake Calling All Cars I would’ve skinned it different.”

“There was this misperception and incorrectness on my part, that you buy this $599 system and bring the same mentality to a $5 game as a $60 game, and that was a mistake,” he added.

It’s ok, Dave. At least you didn’t try something completely off-the-wall – like, oh say, a PSP game that’d make people cry.

Oh, wait. Well, this is awkward.

Thanks, Gamasutra.

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4 comments

KAP
18/02/10, 7:16 am

Oh leave Jaffe alone.. i love that goofy bastard. He can never keep that mouth shut.. but i strangely love hi for it.

RGW1982
18/02/10, 7:32 am

Calling All Cars Was Just A Pathetic Game.. Not Much More You Can Say About It Really.

Hero of Canton
18/02/10, 10:14 am

Two thumbs up. Nathan’s posts are sadly all too infrequent, but always worth waiting for. Do you write for anyone else, fella?

Nathan Grayson
18/02/10, 11:26 am

@Hero of Canton: Yeah. I split most of my free time between VG247 and Maximum PC, and pen the occasional review for GamePro and The Escapist. I should also have a feature running on GamesRadar at some point in the near future. Hopefully it’s not completely flat after all the time they’ve spent sitting on it I’d actually like to be writing more (especially for VG247), but college eats all of my remaining time.