A new report said the hyenaFrom the recently canceled online shooter segaIt was the publisher’s most expensive video game production to date, surpassing even the historically most expensive adventure game Shenmu of Sega AM2Its development cost 70 million dollars.
Announced in June 2022, the hyena Being developed by Creative Assembly, the team behind total war y Alien: Isolation. It was described as a “sci-fi space pirate multiplayer FPS”, where teams of players faced off against each other and NPCs as they battled to steal valuable items and pop culture items.
September 28th, just 17 days after the most recent beta the hyena, sega Canceled the game before its official release. According to developers who worked on the ill-fated project, the hyena It was the most expensive video game ever sega happened in its history.
In a report dated October 4 from the VGC, supported by a YouTuber With insider knowledge creative assemblyThe developers explained that the upcoming shooter was canceled due to a lack of direction and an engine change mid-development that caused many problems.
When an anonymous developer was asked what went wrong, he cited multiple reasons, including a “total lack of direction” and leadership that was “asleep at the wheel”. That same developer also stated that an engine change “mid-process” didn’t help the team working on the game. According to reports, the hyena Management efforts were approved creative assembly To create a console shooter with wide appeal. The issue of study management is said to be mentioned directly destiny y PUBG as motivation.
It is believed the hyena An example was the so-called “Super Games”. sega And there was a budget for the match, with a developer telling VGC that it was the “highest budget game ever”. sega“
“In the end, there were people from sega Japan is more or less permanently in the UK office,” said the anonymous developer.
“This has never happened as long as I have worked at CA. Sometimes they would come and see what a game was like, but as I said before, they usually stayed away from it.
Although initially that was the plan the hyena Launched as a premium title, it became a free-to-play shooter before being cancelled. However, after multiple online closed beta tests for the game, sources speaking to VGC have claimed sega The game was unsatisfied with the game’s expensive progress and resulted in its cancellation at the end of September.
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Editor’s note: The visuals of this game are so insane that they leave me really curious about what the final result is going to be like. Although, as it sounds, everything seems to be a monumental failure.
