Just a couple of weeks after the appointment of Shuhei Yoshida as head of Sony Worldwide Studios, two in-house PS3 projects have been canned. Sony London's latest Getaway title and driving shooter, Eight Days are no more. Gamesindustry.biz quotes from an official statement:
This decision was made following an internal review of all games and it was deemed that with the incredibly strong list of exclusive first party titles coming up both this year and in the near future, resource should be reallocated to enhance those projects closer to completion.
Well, if there are budgets to be slashed at Sony, and it would seem that there are, these two were always going to be prime candidates for the chop. The company's cockney crime caper has already been through two poor sequels - Black Monday and Gangs of London - while Eight Days looked like yet another guns n' wheels blaster, although the desert setting did make it look a bit like No Country For Old Men.
So is anyone sorry that Getaway... gotaway? I did quite enjoy the health meter (I'll just lean up against this wall for a bit until my calamitous shotgun wound heals up), but just about everything else was derivative and achingly Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels rather than Long Good Friday.
