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Codemasters' Guildford Studio recently celebrated the launch of Bodycount, a fast-moving first-person shooter that offered some cool ideas but failed to resonate with the majority of the gaming audience. The game's publisher, Codemasters, is now moving to shut the studio down, shedding 66 employees as it embraces a newly narrowed focus on racing games.
DiRT, GRID and the F1 series are all Codies joints, so there's a pretty good base of strong franchises for the publisher to fall back on. There's a statement from the company (via CVG), but you've already gotten the main points: Guildford Studio is being shut down so the publisher can more effectively work to dominate the world of virtual racing.
There's no word on how this new business plan might affect the Operation Flashpoint series. Red River, the latest in the realism-oriented line of military FPS games, came out in early June. It wasn't perfect, but it got some things really right regardless. Beyond that, is a long-running franchise for Codies with a small but vocal fanbase. An extra year or two of development for the next one could be the difference between a decent shooter and a great one.
For now, the Guildford closing is the only announced change for the publisher. I've reached out to Codemasters for comment on the narrowed focus and what it means for the company's other, non-racing franchises.
Source: CVG
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MasterOfWeed
The demo for Bodycount was really bad like everything about screamed "low budget game" it just seemed cheap and didn't play very well and any of the minor destruction they had was extremely scripted and limited.
Metalhead980
Codemasters releases top of the line racers...
They need to continue releasing top of the line racers and stop with all the other low budget crap.
TrustFall
Wth is Bodycount? I dont remember hearing about this one. Is that the one where you got points based on inventive kills? Or was that Bulletstorm? Yeah, the fps genre isnt saturated at all.
ConDAWG
From everything I have heard they are coming out with Grid 2 next year, I can not wait for that game grid 1 was by far my favorite racer of all time.
Cancerman1120
This is another case of a studio trying to make AAA games when they should have tried to make a less expensive one and release it a $29.99. This game should have been released at a lower price point and MAYBE it would have sold better. Too often these games miss at $60 and then completely fail. It may have worked at a lower opening price...they did not have much to lose by do that.
martymar82
Demo was enough for me to not buy the game, it was pretty bad
ProudFilipino
I was excited for Bodycount when I read that the makers of BLACK are making it but when I played the demo I stopped playing after 10 mins it wasn't that fun. I hope this doesn't effect them making FPS but Im still hoping one day they will make a sequel to one of their best games and one of my favorite FPS BLACK =D
swanychargers
i agree Aramor the demo was really bad, it felt to me like a bad borderlands game,the controls just didn't feel right to me. Good luck to all the the employees that got laid off hope u find a new dev. soon.
Aramor
I didn't really enjoy the demo when i played it, but if this is the same dev that made Black its sad to see them close down. Even though you might not have liked their game I am sure alot of people that worked there put alot of time into that game so best of luck to them.
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