Yep.
Apparently it was originally being made by Zombie Studios, but that was scrapped by Bethesda, the publisher, and they handed it to Rebellion who started over. It sounds like Rebellion put together a game in a single year, which might explain why it was universally panned.
Sadly Tom’s review is DOA due to 1up’s robots.txt apparently, but it wasn’t positive http://www.quartertothree.com/inhouse/news/269/
Looks like this is out, anyone playing? I kind of want to, I know I’ll want to play sometime. Also like to support the good folks who made this happen. Just curious if there are any impressions.
Hey I found Tom’s original review:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071011050241/http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3151447
And despite it being a 1Up link, the internet archive link actually works in this case! That’s very rare.
Pretty cool, I don’t think I’ve read that before. Then again, it’s over 10 yearsnold so maybe I just forgot. Anyway, it’s amusing how often I agree with all the details of a review and then at the end I’m nodding along going “Yeah, isn’t that awesome?!” while they conclude with “… and that’s why it sucks.”
Heh, thanks for that. I just talked my own self out of being tempted to try the redux version!
-Tom