F.E.A.R. Sequels Coming
GameSpot reports that Monolith is getting ready to create sequels to last year's horror action game F.E.A.R., with plans for PC and console titles. The new games will not bear the F.E.A.R. name however, as those rights are owned by Vivendi Universal Games. Monolith does still own the characters, and plans to continue the storyline from the first title.
Monolith is tailoring the sequels' content between the PC and console iterations. The practice of releasing IP on PCs first, then giving console versions a console-specific overhaul is becoming more and more common, as evidenced by Infinity Ward's Call of Duty franchise and Ubisoft's Far Cry franchise. Developers can use each platform's strengths and control schemes to deliver different experiences. Samantha Ryan, president of Monolith Productions, told GameSpot, "We believe that the PC audience is entirely viable and can support a game just as it did support F.E.A.R. To deliver the best quality title, the PC needs to be a focus. We believe that next-gen will also be awesome, but again, it has some differences and this is the approach that we're going to try."
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PenicillinX57
replyAwesome! Glad to hear that Monolith firmly believes in the "PC first, port to consoles later" methodology. It works so much better for everyone in the long run. Afterall, it's easier to design good GUI's for PC users with mouses and then dumb them down later for consoles, than it is to take dumbed down GUI's and port them straight to the PC.
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Doesn't seem to be what they did with Condemned though.
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the problem is that many publishers would just take their lower-res textures from the XBox game that has a 64 MB system RAM ceiling and use it in the PC game. Or at least that's what it seemed like for a number of the console-to-PC ports. Invisible War was one of the notorious CONSOLE'D games.
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