"Eight Days" and "The Getaway" Get Away

Gamespot is reporting that both The Getaway and Eight Days have hit the developmental equivalent to purgatory since the studio has suspended work on both games. Claiming the desire to "redistribute resources and budget," Sony is apparently conducting an internal review of all of their development projects in an attempt to stay competitive in the immediate future. "Announced at E3 in 2006, Eight Days was a PlayStation 3 game that combined third-person shooting with driving action. The Getaway, also for the PS3, was to continue on from the PlayStation 2 game, which was released in 2002 and spawned a sequel and a PlayStation Portable spin-off called Gangs of London. Little was known about the modern action-adventure game other than the fact that it was to be set in a photorealistic London."

photorealistic

[Brian Gordon]

Have you seen those Doom graphics? FULLY ANIMATED sprites. 3 dimensional environments. This is truly the pinnacle of computer graphics.

The Getaway is a very UK-centric game...

[FinestLittleSpace]

SO I doubt the 'mericans here are going to care much.

But regardless, even the first was weak. The mapping was absolutely incredible. Incredible. You could find your way around London perfectly. As a Londoner, this is and was cool to me.

The cars you could drive were wonderfully done and handled with a real sense of danger. Little touches like indicators when you turned just made it so convincing to play. And of course, it was just /so/ british, and /so/ spot on.

Unfortunately the game was, overall, lacking a hell of a lot to really bring it to the top and I'm surprised they kept this wanna-be-gta franchise going as long as they did...

Purgatory of free software

[tepples]

So what you're saying is, these games are being purified in preparation for the developmental equivalent of heaven?

What you describe would be more like if an unfinished game got released as free software.