
The developer seemed to have a lot on his plate, and it’s easy to see how it could have fallen by the wayside. Much like Turok and Perfect Dark, it looks like a Source mod for Doom started a few years back, but was never finished.

In 2013, a modder started work on an updated reinvisioning of Duke Nukem 3D to try and circumvent Gearbox, but who knows if 1) it will ever be finished, and 2) if it won’t get nuked as well, just for using the Duke’s name. Past attempts to mod Duke Nukem 3D were shut down by Gearbox, so there isn’t even a real way to play an updated version of this raunchy classic. The lukewarm 2008 reboot didn’t scratch the itch to go back and experience this game as I remember it, either.ĭuke Nukem Forever sucked. Player mechanics could use a bit of a touch up. Going back and playing just about any shooter on the Nintendo 64 is a painful experience. Retrieved July 12, 2021.Yet another Source mod that was never finished, Turok wouldn’t only benefit from receiving a bit of a graphical update. "Perfect Dark: Everything you need to know".

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In the previous 12 months, a substantial number of developers had also left the company, citing a lack of creative autonomy and slow development progress as the reason for their departures. Daniel Neuburger, who had previously directed several Tomb Raider games at Crystal Dynamics, was the game director, until he left The Initiative in February 2022. In September 2021, The Initiative announced they would be partnering with Crystal Dynamics on the game's development. Shortly afterwards, God of War producer Rhonda Cox joined the company as senior producer for the game. In February 2021, Murray left The Initiative to rejoin Insomniac Games. Design director Drew Murray revealed that the game is being envisioned as a spy shooter, and that the studio wants the player character's physicality to play a bigger role than in traditional first-person shooters. According to a source, the game will run on Unreal Engine 4 and feature "various weapons, gadgets, and a camera surveillance system". Plans for the game had already been discussed before Gallagher joined The Initiative, with Xbox head Phil Spencer stating that the game is seen as an opportunity for protagonist Joanna Dark to diversify the Xbox family. Gallagher, who had previously worked on the 2013 Tomb Raider revival, chose to work on a Perfect Dark reboot after Microsoft presented him with a few opportunities. Perfect Dark is the first project by The Initiative, a Microsoft studio founded in 2018 and headed by Darrell Gallagher. Perfect Dark will take place in a near future world that has been torn apart by ecological disasters.
