Hitman, opening today in 2,401 locations across North America, is the latest videogame adaptation to come out of Hollywood, and initial reports on the film based on Eidos' and IO Interactive's silent assassin are overwhelmingly negative. Rotten Tomatoes, a website that collects top film reviews from across the nation, reports that only four of the 32 currently published reviews (at press time) for the film are positive, while Metacritic claims a 34% average score amongst its currently listed reviews.
Companies, particularly public companies like Microsoft, need to grow.
i mean its pretty simple, they spent close to 30 billion in acquiring activision, they thought they'd make it bk no problem, and that didnt happen.
its just shit that because of MS's miscalculation alot of people lost their jobs.
"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".
I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.
I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.
Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.
This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in
I disagree, Xbox from the get go innovated and changed the industry. They did a lot of firsts and standardized a lot of others. It wasn’t till the beginning of the Xbox1 era that things started to go south.
Yep, although I’d argue it started going to shit when they tried to hock Kinect on their audience instead of continuing to invest in their studios and IPs. 2001-2010 Xbox was peak gaming, though.
@Stevonidas
I agree they never should have focused on it after the 360 era. But you do have to remember they were faked out by the huge volumes of Kinects sold. To quote info on Wikipedia, “Project Natal, It was first released on November 4, 2010, and would go on to sell eight million units in its first 60 days of availability.” So if your Xbox and see these huge sales on a peripheral where are you going to put some money? Criticism in hindsight is worthless…..if only we could all see our future. In other wards they had no way of knowing. Plus they had engagement numbers and a lot of signs pointed to people wanting it.
Their biggest mistake wasn’t the Kinect, but unlike Sony after the PS3 debacle. They didn’t double on down on exclusive good games. The other huge mistake was letting Call of Duty go to Sony.
Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.
Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.
Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,
Seriously, what Hitman fan didn't see this coming? I've been a HUGE Hitman fan since the first game and the first time I saw Olyphant's shaved head prancing about as the eponymous Hitman 47 I was like "well that's going to suck". Maybe I should start directing video game movies sheesh.
I second that. Poorly cast, and the review from my local paper pretty much said it all.
If he's supposed to be incognito, then why the hell is he running around with that GIGANTIC Bar Code tattoo on his chrome dome? The story reeks of the same drivel as every other brainless action movie that's been released in the past decade.
When they were putting this together, they were probably reading "Uwe Boll's Guide to Oscar Worthy Filmmaking".
Step 1: Miscast the ENTIRE movie
Step 2: Take a coherent story, and hand it over to the local County Jail Drunk Tank for review.
Step 3: Upon revision of said script, convince some poor sap studio that this "movie" is worth losing $50+ million on.
Step 4: Make sure there's unnecessary eye candy in the movie and make sure her involvement DIRECTLY contradicts the plot.
Step 5: Release the movie and trash talk anyone who hates it.
... when I saw the trailer for this was that Timothy Olyphant (who plays 47) looks too young.
Anyone else think he needed to look 10 or 15 years older..?
i actually thought the movie looked promising...
but it probably turned out to be a mindless action flick eh?
Watched trailer on PSN, it didn't give me a good impression about the film.
Main problem is he looks nothing like Hitman.