DmC Devil May Cry preview - tears for fears
We don't know how exactly Capcom chooses which Western developers to work with, but it's hard to imagine it doesn't involve a bottle of gin and a game of blindfolded darts. Blue Castle Games worked out okay on Dead Rising, but rubbish like Dark Void and Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City has been amongst the worst games Capcom has ever published.
And yet even with Spark Unlimited working on Lost Planet 3 their most controversial choice is to put British team Ninja Theory to work on Devil May Cry. Having the makers of Heavenly Sword and Enslaved: Odyssey To The West create a reboot of the whole series has been seen by some as sacrilege - with Ninja Theory actually receiving death threats from outraged fans.
It's hard to understand exactly how a mere video game could generate that level of upset but Devil May Cry seems to have become a line in the sand for some fans, in terms of franchises they're unwilling to see handled by a non-Japanese developer. It hasn't helped that Heavenly Sword is a fairly pale imitation of Devil May Cry's general style or that that the re-imagined version of protagonist Dante is such an unlikeable hipster douchebag.
He was actually fairly inoffensive in the demo we played, but then it didn't have any significant cut scenes before it - which we wonder now may have been intentional.
The other thing fans get upset about is that the new game does not run at the optimum 60 frames per second of the original. That's still the case in the preview we played but we have to admit it's not terribly obvious - although there's generally less going on on-screen then we assume there will be by the end of the game.
What is obvious is that the graphics really aren't very good. The game might not be finished but at this stage there's a general lack of detail and so many jaggies we felt we might cut our finger if we touched the TV screen. There's plenty of time for spit and polish later (the game's release date seems destined to make it the first major release of 2013) but we have to say the visuals didn't bother us.
Source: http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/903252-dmc-devil-may-cry-preview-tears-for-fears
Yeah, so it's the same thing. Gotta admit though, had to laugh at the way they think Capcom chose companies.