CoD development style not for Epic

No yearly update for Gears of War

Epic Games big wig Cliff Bleszinski has said that he isn't interested in creating video games in an Activision Call of Duty-style, rotating a long-running series between two developers to engender a yearly release.

Develop asked the Epic design director if just such a strategy might be considered for Gears of War, 'CliffyB' implying that such a move would just be a little too soul-less for his liking.

"We’ve got a lot of ideas about where the franchise will go," he enthused. "But sometimes I feel a franchise loses something when it’s shifted off to another shop.

"You get the primary studio that really understands about the franchise, and sometimes the other studio that takes it over can do well, but there’s something lost in translation, like the game’s soul has gone."

More on Gears 2 shortly.

By Luke Guttridge