EA Montreal has just officially announced that they are delaying their Army of Two action shooter title for the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 from Fall 2008 to First Quarter 2008 (noo!).
1UP chatted with VP and General Manager of EA Montreal and Army of Two Executive Producer Alan Tascan about why the company decided to announce the delay so late in the game.
Read the full interview at the link below.1UP: So what's the official announcement that you're giving us today?
Alan Tascan: The announcement is that we're pushing the game to Q1 of next year and the reason is based on the feedback we've had internally and externally. We just want to add extra polish to the game -- I think everyone would want that. Our job is to delight the customer and we feel that we need more time to add the polish.
1UP: Yeah, but what's interesting in this case is that the game got to review stage -- we were playing it to review it -- before it got delayed, so we were wondering why it took this long to figure out. We're pretty accustomed to delays in this industry, but not usually at this stage.
Alan Tascan: This was based on a lot of feedback we had internally and externally. Where we failed is in questioning whether we could really make the game better. I agree with you that this came at the last second, but it still came and I think that's better for everybody. I think the fundamentals are there, we just need to add in the extra polish that we now have time to do.
[Read: Alan Tascan A02 Interview]
