Bionic Commando Rearmed approaching completion
Simon Viklund, the Creative Director of developer GRIN, announced on the GRIN website blog today that Bionic Commando is nearing completion and all that's left is a little bit of polishing. They've been working on the title for close to a year now and they anticipate the release of the title on the Xbox Live Arcade. Simon goes on to say that the title should enter into the approval process within weeks. Below is the post from the GRIN developer blog:
The final date for completing Bionic Commando Rearmed is closing in - we're stabilizing the game and polishing all the details now, and soon this product of almost a year of late nights and hard work will ship to a digital distribution channel near you!
Since the game was announced in January, we have released trailers showing off the single player campaign, the co-op ability and the challenge rooms - and yet there's more to come!
Capcom and Grin have poured so much love into this one, and I sure hope it shows: from gameplay to graphic style to music, this is a love letter to the entire sidescrolling genre and its fans, and the original Bionic Commando and its fans in particular.
Within weeks we will see with sad eyes how it leaves to enter the approval process, and I'm sure that just days after things have calmed down here at the office and our schedules say "wait and see", the team and I will already start longing to get back to the backbreaking work we've gotten used to during the project.
Needless to say we've already started dreaming about what retro project we could do next if the opportunity should arise... There's this passion for the old gaming heritage within the team - and out there in the gaming community too, as made obvious by the overwhelming reception that news of BCR has gotten - that make us dare have these dreams.
First things first, however - the most exciting thing for us right now is without a doubt to see what reception the game will get. It's not due very long now, so get ready to check it out. Don't make us waste our love! This one is for everyone that enjoys pure gaming fun!
Simon Viklund, Creative Director
Comments
Steelback
12780
The remake looks awesome, but sadly, without Live co-op I don't think it gets a purchase from me.
Hopefully future remakes that warrant it as much as this game does don't have it left out because it's honestly become a deal-breaker for me when it makes the game seem lacking without it.
Tawse and Turn
11849
I agree. If you are going to redo an entire game then updating it to the current standard is a must. Otherwise why bother?
x Cheevos x
930
I guess I am a bit more willing to cut the developers some slack. They've already gone so far and above anything other developers are even attempting for their XBLA remakes. It's only ten dollars and the game looks incredible, how can you not want to buy it. I hope that Interplay follows in Capcom's footsteps with their revival of the Earthworm Jim franchise. A remake of either Earthworm Jim game done Bionic Commando Rearmed style would get my Microsoft Space Bucks.
Tawse and Turn
11849
I would reply that a lof of developers have been given too much slack with this generation of games...
While there have been a good amount of quality games released there is even more hyped up bloated crap. Unitl a game is actually released everything else is assumption and not really relevant.
Having said that I would buy Descent on XBLA. Been asking for it a while now.