Monday, February 11, 2008

Lair v2.0 Flying to PLAYSTATION 3's?

We'll admit it, mostly nobody liked Lair. It received poor reviews across the charts. Recently though, Factor 5 preident Julian Eggebrecht spoke about the mixed reception Lair received. He threw in a little hint about future enhancements to the game.

"Well, obviously we've got this huge gap there where basically if you read more casual comments -- on Amazon, for example -- to the overwhelming degree they are pretty positive. I think that everybody who got the controls actually enjoyed the game. I think the IGN review was probably the most scathing. I didn't think you left one good hair with that nice 4.9, which opened up so many great jokes. But on a more serious level, I think that people who actually got it had something really going going there," said Eggebrecht about Lair's critical reception. "What's disappointing to me is that almost every single person in and outside of the industry who is little bit more of a hardcore gamer had a huge problem with it, and we, quite frankly, didn't anticipate that. I hope that a lot of people realize that underlying the problem they had with the base control, there actually was a really good game there. That's at least what I think. Well, what else would I say?"

Read on, for the hint.

"If we find a chance in the future that would bring Lair to the audience which didn't get any access, that would be fantastic," stated Eggebrecht. "I can't say anything quite yet, but there might be something in the works there. We might have a chance yet to bring those back to the table and hopefully, if that should happen, they would give the game a second chance Nevertheless, we definitely took a long look at the results and learned a couple of lessons. If you're on a platform where this whole motion control is something new and not being pitched as the main feature of the platform, you should probably give the choice between having different control schemes, there is absolutely no doubt about it."

You never know what you might see as a PLAYSTATION Network update one day.

[Lair 2.0 on the Way?]

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