Next Oddworld Game Interview
Oddworld hasn't released any information about the next game except for the Discovery Channel's "X Factor" show in June. Why? We don't even know the title or release date?
LL: There has not been a set release date. We will make the announcement when we have agreed on the exact date with the publisher. It is safe to say sometime in 2004, but the exact time window hasn't been worked out. Also, there are times when the best strategy in creating a new game is to keep it quiet until as late as possible. Some people felt that we "over hyped" Munch and they criticized the game unfairly as a result. We would see magazine scores that said, "we rated the score lower than we would have because of the previous hype and we expected something different." Nothing is more unfair to a newly released product than judging it on anything but its own merit. To give a game a lower score because the reviewer expected something different is totally lame and we will not allow this to happen on our new game. This game will be fresh, there will not be years of previous hype expectations built up, and when it releases it will be judged on the merit of how good it is. Not on how well it compared to the hype.
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