Originally published at: Developer People Can Fly Partners with Microsoft for Exclusive "AAA" Game Title - XboxEra
Developer People Can Fly (of Gears of War: Judgement and Bulletstorm fame) have announced in an ESPI report that they have partnered with Microsoft Corp. to produce a “AAA game” codenamed ‘Project Maverick’ with a production budget of roughly “30 to 50 million US dollars”.
Have a gander at the ESPI report, translated with DeepL, courtesy of Interia.pl.
Hoping to see good things come from this. They did a great job on Gears Judgment and BulletStorm. Their game Outriders was good after you got past some of the story tropes.
Nice
Loved Outriders and I can always use another third person shooter so I hope that’s what People Can Fly is working on for Microsoft.
Agree. I had a few quibbles with Outriders, but it was surprisingly solid for the first entry in a new IP under a publisher like Square Enix. The fact they managed to make such a decent game that was played by a good chunk of folks under those conditions is to be applauded. Use that experience, clean it up, and you’re on your way to something great.
I think that it wil most likely be gears again, but i would prefer it to be jet force gemini.
A successor to BulletStorm would be my game of choice, but I think it will be Gears related.
Isn’t a 30-50 mill budgeting a smaller tier game, Like double a at most?
Always here about triple a games going into the 100 million or more mark.
Either way I am in love the stuff they make.
It depends on the amount of employees and length of the project. Its pricier than a remaster, but less than a Halo.
I would guess on par with Avowed, Alan Wake 2. Plague Tale 2. MS Flight Sim.
Agree. The MOD system in Outriders was great as well. I wonder if they implement something similar in their Microsoft funded and published game. I’m just hoping that it’s a shooter and something similar to Outriders but now that im thinking about it, didn’t People Can Fly have a publishing deal with Take Two Interactive via Private Division that was abandoned or something? If so, I wonder if Microsoft picked it up.
Poland has cheaper labor so 30-50 million gets you around double that.
Cyberpunk 2077 budget was 174 million and it’s the biggest game to date so definitely 30-50 million is AAA in Poland.
Hopefully a test run for a future acquisition.
Considering the last time people can fly worked on a xbox title was crackdown 3, im gonna hold skeptical on this till i see more information
Edit: my mistake, it was elbow rocket, a completely different studio
Support work for the next Gears game probably.
They work on Crackdown 3? I thought it was Sumo Digital.
There were a couple studios working on crackdown 3, sumo was the main one. People can fly worked on the multiplayer mode.
Its more an observation than anything else, arguably not a good one, but i dont think pcf have the best track record
Edit: nevermind, im talking bollocks. It wasnt people can fly, it was elbow rocket, a completely different studio. Sorry for spreading false information guys, hope no one quoted me on a youtube video
Hmm, Intresting. I only every try Crackdown 3 single player. I give up after about 6 hours though.
Never try Crackdown 3 multiplayer. Didn’t know it was different people working on that.
Just edited my post, looked it up and it was a completely different studio that did crackdown 3 multiplayer. Sorry for confusing you and spreading false information
As for people can flys track record, it does seem there best title is a tie between outriders and bulletstorm, which isnt as bad as crackdown 3 but it doesnt really shine confidence
That being said, always excited to see third party deals with xbox, so look forward to what they can show off
Okay. So People can fly have nothing to do with Crackdown 3 whatsoever.
