If this article on Broken Toys is to be believed, then developer RealTime Worlds went bankrupt for a very good reason: they supposedly spent more than $100,000,000 on the development of the catastrophic MMO flop APB.
It’s hard to believe, given the fact that APB plays like a budget title at best.
It took them far too long to develop a promising concept into a mediocre at best title and burn 100 mil on the team? Christ.
I think RealTime had to develop Crackdown 2, but I think there where some problems with the communications between Realtime and Microsoft or something..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackdown
Wilson confirmed that Realtime Worlds was not working on a sequel to the game, saying “Microsoft was a little late in stepping up to the plate to ask for Crackdown 2, and by then we had already started working on bigger, better things”.
Mr. Pink, have you tried it?
Judging by these youtube videos, the game looks like utter poo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcHt6_lZtj4&feature=related
Yes, I’ve tried it. I gave it about 20 minutes before dumping it.
I find it sad. The game had so much potential…