David Jaffe’s Project HL Dead, Working on PS3
God of War director has given up on making you cry.
David Jaffe is no longer working on the PSP game that was supposed to make you burst into tears. “That game is- for the moment- on the shelf,” said the typically outspoken developer in his blog. “The core reason is that it was very ambitious and so was/is WarHawk. The same developer is making both games … so Scott (head of Incog) and I said: fuck it. We’ll do HL later…maybe.”
Instead of heading back to Kratos, however, Jaffe has dived head first into a PlayStation 3 game, with apparent similarities to Twisted Metal and Bomberman. The game hasn’t been officially announced yet, though Jaffe estimates a release date sometime between November and January — a surprise launch game, perhaps? His comments don’t seem to put it out of the question.
Work started on the PS3 project about six to seven months ago, and as the game approaches the Alpha stage of development, Jaffe’s brief discussion of the game is full of excitement.
“I CAN tell you that man, SHORTER, LESS EXPENSIVE GAMES….wow! What a BLAST to be working on these things! I feel like the old cartoonists who used to make Bugs and Daffy must have felt; how Rankin-Bass must have felt, pumping out show after show after show…just knocking them out, and some are- worst case- just average, while some are amazing… but it adds up to a hell of a batting average over time and lots of fun games. I have not dug the work this much in ages!”
While it’s a little disappointing to hear Jaffe ditched his ambitious for HL, it seems we should hear about his latest game sometime soon. It definitely sounds like Jaffe has returned to hits action roots, and that can’t be a bad thing.
Source: gametab.com
