Acclaim gone bust

[Renegade_Playa]

I know this is slightly off-topic but i just want got get people's opinions on it

as you would have heard from either IGN or Gamespot and Acclaim has now filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Acclaim as we know it is now R.I.P. but they had a few good games coming out in the next few months. Juiced was meant to be coming out next week in the states and i was wondering if you were waiting for this game to come out and what other games would you like to be seen from acclaim if they were still around

for me it would be:
Juiced
100 Bullets
The Red Star
Interview With A Made Man

hopefully they will be picked up by another publisher...apparently Juice Games (the company that made Juiced) will publish the game themselves

[spedmetal]

Well that sucks, the game developing market is now even thinner as if it hasn't been going this direction for some time now. This is really too bad to hear, now Sonys game developers and EA have just a little bigger market then they already did. Any work on what it was that brought them down?

[JoyBoy]

Acclaim have sucked for years. When a company wants to advertise on Tombstones, they deserve to drop dead. And lets not forget that Pixel Tits game, BMX XXX (i think thats what it was called).

[crazygamelover]

Probably the continuous drain of our almighty economy!

I still dont think it has fully recovered like we are meant to believe, cause if it did, gas prices would drop. Its draining alot of the less dominate business' and you are right Sped, this will open more revenues for the stronger business' like Sony and EA! It seems the bigger companies are getting power hungry too!

Although this does relate to PS2 games/development, this is a bit off topic and should probably be moved to Off Topic "General gaming". <---edit, nm.

[JoyBoy]

Hehe, eh? You think Acclaim could actually compete with the likes of SONY and EA? Ever since the PlayStation came about, Acclaim have released 1 huge flop after another. The only thing that kept them going during their Golden Era, the 16bit Wars, was the fact that they published such games as Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam and the WWF Games. All big sellers. Its not the US Economy that killed Acclaim, its their crap games.

[crazygamelover]

Originally Posted by BountyWarrior

Its not the US Economy that killed Acclaim, its their crap games.

Good point!

[Renegade_Playa]

Well it's reported that they have debts over $100 million US. it's a shame they have gone...i'd say they died due to crappy games such as the Turok series, BMX XXX...their best games such as NFL Quaterback Club Series, All Star Baseball Series died due them not paying the licencing fees.


does this mean that Acclaim is gone worldwide? (there's an Acclaim games house in Melbourne, Australia)

[seaneyb2003]

Originally Posted by Renegade_Playa

I know this is slightly off-topic but i just want got get people's opinions on it

as you would have heard from either IGN or Gamespot and Acclaim has now filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Acclaim as we know it is now R.I.P. but they had a few good games coming out in the next few months. Juiced was meant to be coming out next week in the states and i was wondering if you were waiting for this game to come out and what other games would you like to be seen from acclaim if they were still around

for me it would be:
Juiced
100 Bullets
The Red Star
Interview With A Made Man

hopefully they will be picked up by another publisher...apparently Juice Games (the company that made Juiced) will publish the game themselves

dam acllaim made constructor on the pc that was good. Burnout series as well there wicked!

[Luciel]

yeah i liked constructor, it had another name tho, i think they released the demo with one name and then changed the name on the full game or maybe it was different names for parts of the world, but i dont remember the other name tho lol

[Shadowever]

oh constructor i loved that game... i even bought it
i played turok too it was awesome in the past :P

[Luci]

man...the last post was on september

[spedmetal]

Originally Posted by seaneyb2003

Burnout series as well there wicked!

YEAH! Still play burnout to this day here.

[seaneyb2003]

Originally Posted by spedmetal

YEAH! Still play burnout to this day here.

yeh burnout 2 is wicked cant wait till 3 ROCK ON!!!!

altho i only got no. 2 last week hehe. Very good game tho

also cunstructor had 2 versions was a dos version and windows and for some reason the cheats neva worked. The game was well hard 2