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Activision Cancels Guitar Hero and True Crime

February 09, 2011 in Industry News comments 8

For all of you Guitar Hero fans out there, today is a sad day. It seems like you may have to start investing in Rock Band, if you haven't already. Check out the story for the full scoop. Cheers!

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  • 0
    Deception Feb 10, 11
    WHAT!? *bleep* GUITAR HERO, BUT TRUE CRIME HING KONG LOOKS AMAZING
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    Gamesta100 Feb 10, 11
    HIng Kong hey?


    I'm not happy that the game will not be coming out.

    GH I don't care about.
  • 1
    Deception Feb 10, 11
    My bad
    But yeah, it looked really promising. The combat looked awesome, and the chasing/climbing looked awesome. They cancel a quality game and then go and make ANOTHER COD studio? Godamnit.
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    Gamesta100 Feb 10, 11
    Well they have to appease the mindles masses (kids who think COD is the God of video games).
    • 0
      Daweii Feb 10, 11
      It isn't? Oh shit I've been worshipping the wrong god..
  • 1
    Bale Fire Feb 10, 11
    Not really into either franchise, but I'm certainly not happy about the prospect of even more Call of Duty whoring.
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      Red 9 Feb 10, 11
      TBH they were already beginning to whore out Guitar Hero. They were starting to release GH games that had either very small or largely identical track lists, and were getting too much into specific-band GH titles.

      True Crime however did not deserve to be shut down.
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    XboxOZ360 Feb 10, 11
    Any game Activision believe that will notscore higher than a 8.5/10 metacritic score, they cancel rather than continue with development.

    This is not the first time they have done this (True Crime Hong Kong etc) but a game scoring even a 7/10 is worthwhile for the studio developing it. They buy up Bizarre, who sadly left the protective folds of MS for the wide open world, to be shut down after 2-3 games with Activision.

    The guys at United Front Games are a very passionate lot. Met up with their lead at E3 2010 and you could feel the passion these guys had about the game.

    Activision have become the gobbler of development studios now, taking them in, promising them the world, to only close them down because of 'perceived' short falls in a title.

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