Bizarre Creations set to close

[Yakumo]

I'm very sad to see them go. I still remember the many visits to the main studio when they were doing the 1st and 2nd PSX F1 games. They were a fantastic team and it's very said to see them go. Their James Bond game, Blood Stone is fantastic. I really do like it!

Yakumo

[Dirty Sanchez]

Shame they've gone.

I loved PGR3, didn't gel with PGR4 - had it for the last couple of years and only played a bit of online. Been hammering it for the last week - prefer it to Forza for single player racing - no daft crippling of your run when hitting a barrier etc

[Brad]

Shame. Geo Wars was awesome. I liked MSR but something seemed to be missing in the transitio to the PGR series. They never created anything bizarre though did they? ;-)

[Team Andromeda]

Shame and such a waste of talent. I'm just amazed that the likes of MS let them go in the 1st place, like with DICE

[Womble9]

No more Geo wars is the sadest thing for me. I thought both 1 and 2 were superbly crafted games and I remember upon the release of 2 them saying there'd be plenty more as they had loads of ideas that they still wanted to try, alas it came to nothing.

[abigsmurf]

Gah, Clair de lune always gets to me.

So beautiful yet at the same time tinged with an edge of sadness. One of my favourite pieces of music.

[nonny]

Nice video. My my PGR4 is still a very pretty game even by today's standards. For me it is their best racing game on any system. I know some didn't gel with it with the inclusion of bikes etc... But the weather system and diversity of tracks made it stand above PGR3.

It's weird as it's one of those games that takes several hours to sink in and get noticed. For me it was a race around Macau where it begins raining and you can aqua-plane down the straights. Used to play several tracks using the FF wheel online with 6 mates (all with the same wheel) using ariel atoms.

I've still not had that same "one more race" experience with Forza or Gran Turismo. Something I will remember long past this generation.

[Darwock]

Weren't Bizarre Creations involved with Lemmings in some way? I have memories of seeing DMA Design and Bizarre Creations logos in that game..?

I haven't played a game of theirs since MSR, but it is still very sad to hear they are no more.

[Yakumo]

The owner of Bizarre, I mean the real guy behind it, Martin, not bloody Activision was the same guy behind Killing Gameshow (Fatal Rewind) for the Amiga and Mega Drive plus Whiz & Liz on the Mega Drive.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/289942/news/bizarre-creations-design-lead-joins-sumo-digital/

One of the designers from Bizarre has joined Sumo

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/290840/news/bizarre-creations-developers-set-up-new-studio/

Ex-employees have set up Lucid Games

[Wools]

Great news, I'll be looking forward to their first project.

[Malc]

Great, hopefully they wont end up selling themselves to Activision this time.