Having focused on Tomb Raider for the past ten years or so, Crystal Dynamics is about to embark on a new adventure with The Avengers – and it'll be making the journey in a new studio. The developer has announced that it moved into a fresh office last week, and it sounds like it's kitted out with some cool features.
"We have some great new amenities, from hydraulic desks for everyone to adjust as they like, to black-out shades and light absorption paint for those darkness-loving developers," co-studio head Scot Amos wrote on the company's Tumblr. The, er, state-of-the-art paint has been accompanied by new meetings rooms, a photogrammetry capture space, and its very own motion capture stage.
"The new studio will help Crystal Dynamics take our work to the next level," added co-studio head Ron Rosenberg. "Crystal Dynamics' new studio is nearly double the size in order to make room for all the new positions we're hiring over the next year." It sounds like the budget for this new Marvel game is going to be astronomical.
[source crystaldynamics.tumblr.com]
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Happy for them, Crystal Dynamics is a great studio, they deserved it. =)
Gotta say, though, I'm worried about the next Tomb Raider without them...
@renankj Eidos Montreal is a good studio, it'll be fine I'm sure.
@get2sammyb Wasn't Eidos responsible for Tomb Raider before Crystal Dynamics?
@renankj Core Design made the original Tomb Raider games and Eidos was the publisher. Square Enix bought Eidos, though.
@get2sammyb Forgot about Core Design, hehe. Well, at least Eidos worked with Crystal Dynamics in TR, hopefully they can handle it on their own.
I do trust Square Enix, anyway, love the games they publish/develop.
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Yes, Tomb Raider will be fine with Eidos Montreal, but as I have said and will continue to say everytime that studio is brought up, it's beyond frustrating that it probably means Deus Ex is finished. I really hope they find a way to close Jensen's story anyway. We know he doesn't succeed but I still want to see how things played out.
@Gamer83 Deus Ex is currently on 'hold' but that doesn't mean that they won't be returning to it in the future. Maybe alternating between that and Tomb Raider.
Personally I loved the two rebooted Tomb Raider games and Rise was only beaten to my Game of the Year by the Witcher 3. In some ways, its actually better than Uncharted, thanks to its more RPG nature and more varied game-play. Both games I completed the Story to 100% at least twice (1st game -standard and definitive edition, 2nd game - XB1 and PS4 version) and visually, these games are stunning too and well deserved the
Deus Ex is interesting but I wouldn't put it up there alongside Tomb Raider.
It will be interesting to see how Crystal Dynamix handle the Avengers. I can't see them going the RPG route with this although I can see them adopting some form of Hub type set-up. I can't say I am 'excited' by an Avengers game like I would be for a follow up to 'Rise'. I don't know how they will handle the game-play. Will you take control of one or swap between them for certain missions? Will you have to 'swap' on the fly to achieve certain things - kind of like Lego where only a certain character can do something? How will battles play out? Will the other Avengers (the ones you aren't playing as at that moment) be AI controlled? I can see myself switching between Iron Man, Thor and the Hulk if that's an option and never bothering with the others - the Hulk to Smash everything, Iron Man to fly and shoot everything and Thor for a combination of the two. Of course this is speculation without knowing anything yet but I think I would have preferred a 'single' hero game like Batman or Spider-Man...
I loved the first reboot TR game but merely liked the second. I didn't enjoy the story or the motivation as much as the first. However, I do want to see another game. I think it can be good to move things around as long as there is some continuity.
My desk doesn't move on hydraulics so I am very jealous there.
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