" Because if you don’t innovate, you’re dead.”
Dear Gavin, with regard to above. Innovation for the sake of it leads to MS Office 2115. It will probably work out how much milk you drunk when you were 5 but has so much crap in the way you can't write a letter. We like games like CM Rally. You know, the old ones, get in a Subaru and hit NZ mud for all you are worth. Or the spectacular Rallisport Challenge2. That was a game to get into. Now the thing with Dirt is, well, sorry mate, you are becoming the off road equivalent of MS office. What next, racing supermarket trolleys round a muddy car park, add that to the menu? Or how about broken down ice cream vans along Brighton pier, dodge the grannies? Or how about you guys get your heads out your asses, drop the hill billy crap and make a damn rally game?

You call competition in an industry that goes through new tech at such a rate it is its own law (Moore's) fanboy fantasy? The chances of the PS3 surviving ten years do not exist. Competition will come out of the air and kill it stone cold dead. Look at the current generation; the PS3 has tech that was already dusty by cutting edge terms at its inception, fused with a then hot new cpu that is a pig to code for and new disk tech that nearly bankrupted Sony by being unready for mass production at product announcement. The 360 is made by a software firm that has no clue how to assemble hardware and subsequently has major heat sources on top of each other melting solder. And the Wii would be dead in the water at birth but for the controller that the rest of the world is rapidly catching up to and passing. The chances of *any* of these train wreck systems lasting ten years is about zero. To last ten years you need zero major faults, like the PS2. None of the current gen has that luxury. This is politics to shut up stock holders. No more.

Can't wait for this. Seriously disillusioned with Bioware.

"They have very few first-party studios at Microsoft. Bungie's next Halo is the last one, Rare rarely puts out anything,"
Good call! Rare have fallen from grace and become a nail biting, inward looking child-centric developer who places all its eggs in one basket and then scans the financial horizon like a pack of meerkats hoping the cash cloud will pay the mortgage. They need to go back to Golden Eye and Perfect Dark and grow a pair. Really.

I am one of those who helped take it there. My gut, knee-jerk reaction to playing the first 3 hours of it; hmmmmmm. It has that 'Have we been conned by the reviewers?' Halo feel to it. It is OK, but hardly the second coming. The performances by the acting leads are very wooden, if it was a movie they would be slaughtered in film reviews. The whole thing pales on the acting front compared to KOTOR, and then there is the set design..... You blast across the universe and when you arrive, the terrain has stairs and ramps with the same dimension and scales as on the previous planet. "Oh yeah, stair here, box to hide behind will be about here' you can just guess it before you clap eyes on it. This game is a solid 8.3, no more. The best of RPG is in the past now and probably will be for an entire human generation.......