Ex-Bodycount Director Discusses Split From Codemasters

Sometime Bodycount Creative Director Stuart Black says the real reason for his sudden departure from the game and Codemasters was simply that "an agreement was humble" and nobody seemed willing to do anything about it.

Things happened quickly for Stuart Black over the summer. In April he was extolling the virtues of Codemasters as a place he could "get some creative freedom, some creative control and really develop something I want to develop." Merely in July He successful the surprise announcement that he was leaving Codemasters once he had "consummated his design responsibilities" in October, a go up rumored to personify the result of negative reply to Bodycount at E3. Those rumors were strengthened when Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens claimed that the publisher was unhappy with the state of the game and strongly hinted that Black was shown the door.

Just Black says that in spite of the "odd and silly rumors" that have been kicking approximately, the decision to leave was his, and it sounds like it was all clientele. "At the closing of the day these things are mundane. I've never spoken about it and don't throw a lot to sound out," he told GameSpot. "An agreement was disorganized. No one really wanted to sterilize it. I decided to go on along. The rest seems to be someone-generating noise."

While Pitch-dark evidently shared Codemasters' dissatisfaction with the situation, he clear felt that the problem wasn't with the game itself. "My decision to leave Codemasters and Bodycount was the hardest choice of my calling," he explained. "However, IT was clear that Codemasters were ineffective, Oregon unwilling, to provide the reinforcement needed to actualize the vision I had for Bodycount. Some of the marketing initiatives and trailers were not, in my opinion, doing justice for the game."

"Bodycount was very important to me, beingness its Jehovah and working through the things I hadn't finished on my own before. I felt we got to the central mark and information technology was good. People World Health Organization played it were dig some of the more risky choices. Then the future just shattered in front of me," he continued. "Thankfully I had a slow roll up-kill and way out, but the first calendar month was right awful."

Just his burst from Bodycount has an top: Black is now working with City Interactive on a Back World War taw he claims testament really bring something spick-and-span to the genre. "We want to invoke the spirit of films like The Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare, The Guns of Navarone, and a bit of Inglourious Basterds," he said. "That's what we're after; more rock and tramp, spraying and pray, slo-mo destruction, and glory, wrapped in a liberalist metagame that you don't usually consider in a shooter."

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