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Codies get to work on sequels to Dirt, Grid and Operation Flashpoint

by Steven Williamson on 29 July 2010, 10:00

Tags: Codemasters, Action/Adventure

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Codemasters is back to work once again on three of its most popular franchises, Dirt, Grid and Operation Flashpoint.

Speaking to Develop, Jamie Macdonald, who oversees production at Codemasters, said its Southam branch is "full steam ahead" with the three titles, Dirt 3, Grid 2 and the next iteration in the Flashpoint series. None of the titles have been give official names as yet.

"We've got a major launch with F1 coming up in September and developed at our Birmingham studio, and we hope to draw new IP from there. Our Guildford studio is working hard on Bodycount, and we will be looking to take that franchise further and further with the addition of more IP, " said McDonload.

Further details are expected to be revealed at GamesCon at the end of August.


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Posted by watercooled - Thu 29 Jul 2010 11:47
Hopefully they learned from the mess they made of the last Flashpoint and won't release this one pre-Alpha quality!
Posted by Jaffo - Thu 29 Jul 2010 12:22
watercooled
Hopefully they learned from the mess they made of the last Flashpoint and won't release this one pre-Alpha quality!

Beat me to it!

Still waiting for a proper sequel to OFP. Flashpoint 2 and the ArmA games have all been massive disappointments.

:mad:
Posted by Great Eastern - Sat 31 Jul 2010 18:20
I hope they take the next version of Dirt back to a more Colin McRae Rally type game, whilst certain elements of Dirt 2 were great, all that going around in circles at Battersea Power Station was tedious, along with all the American voices etc
Posted by Andy3536 - Sun 01 Aug 2010 09:52
Great Eastern;1959618
I hope they take the next version of Dirt back to a more Colin McRae Rally type game, whilst certain elements of Dirt 2 were great, all that going around in circles at Battersea Power Station was tedious, along with all the American voices etc

Looking at the trailer, more of the same. Starts off with me thinking mabee they've done a bit less for the American teenager. But the trailer gets worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soGazsZkXl4

Dirt 2 was a blast but it was removed from my system after 2 weeks…..

Not to worry though, WRC out later this year. ;)

3 games i would rather were not made into a sequel to be honest :(
Posted by watercooled - Sun 01 Aug 2010 11:46
Colin McRae Rally 1 was one of my favourites TBH, with the latest games they seem to have followed the trend of other games and concentrated only on graphics, forgetting about everything else until last minute and made it stupidly simple and arcadey. Forza is one of the only current racing games I like, it's a proper sim aimed at people who like and know something about cars; most other games you start it up, spam continue for a bit then hold down accelerate and remember to turn occasionally…

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