På trods af tekniske vanskeligheder og tvivlsomme designvalg så kan man ikke komme uden om, at det PS5-ekslusive Returnal er et ganske imponerende spil (vi kvitterede da også med en positiv anmeldelse).
Det var tydeligt, at finske Housemarque havde lagt rigtigt meget passion i spillet, og faktisk har udvikleren arbejdet på Returnal i hele fire år. Det afslører studiets marketing-ansvarlige i et interview med vores norske Gamereactor-kollega Eirik:
"We do have about four years of development in it [Returnal], and some early concepting prior to that," fortalte Haveri. "We didn't announce anything until last year with the PlayStation 5 announcement, but yes - it has been four years plus some."
Haveri forsatte med at fortælle lidt mere om spillets udviklingsproces:
"We've been on the forefront of multiple console generations, so we are always aware of upcoming changes and everything. The game does change quite a bit during the early pre-production and the stages you start defining the sculpt, so in the early days it was a very different game. Little by little we started realising the potential for the PlayStation 5, and then we started getting in the specs and the ideas of what hardware we should aim for. It is a multi-year process because a lot of that information isn't one single dump, but we get it little-by-little information as we go. We were platform agnostic from the get-go, but the sculpt and everything scaled up quite a lot as we were able to prove ourselves."
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