Although it seems unlikely we’ll ever get a true sequel to last generation’s FPSBlack, Codemasters’Bodycountcould certainly been as a spiritual successor. Project lead on both games, Stuart Black, has stated thatBodycountwill evoke the “feeling” ofBlack, a feeling that other FPS games just haven’t managed to emulate.
“I ended up playingBlackagain on PSN [PS2?], and I was kind of enjoying it. I realised there was a feeling there, a style of shooting that I wasn’t getting anywhere else, and I was missing it,” explains Black. “I don’t want to be bigheaded, but I knew that no one else is going to deliver that kind of shooting experience.
“I’ve seen the influence ofBlackin other stuff, but there’s a very particular style, a particular feel to it. I thought, the only person who can deliver that kind of feel is me because I found it in the first place. It’s not just me of course; other people made huge contributions, but a lot of them are here now as well.”
I wasn’t the biggest fan ofBlack, but I must confess that it had a certain flare to it that no other game has captured. It really sounds likeBodycounthas the potential to be a standout FPS this year, and I certainly like where the creative director’s mind is at. Let’s hope Black’s as good a designer as he is a talker.
Bodycount will ‘recreate Black’s shooting experience’[CVG]
