Ruffian We're the Right People to Make Crackdown 2

It all goes back to Crackdown being a surprising sleeper hit, even for Microsoft. By the time Microsoft Games Studios should have secured a contract with the developer to create a sequel, Real Time Worlds had to move on and work on All Points Bulletin, a games that promises to do for MMOs what Crackdown did for open-world action games.

To everyone's surprise, Microsoft announced Crackdown 2 at E3 2009 and confirmed the rumors: the sequel to Crackdown won't be developed by Real Time Worlds, but instead the recently founded Ruffian Games will take on the job. After the official announcement, David Jones, founder of Real Time Worlds, and known for creating the Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings franchises, expressed his disappointment over the fact that Microsoft, owner of the Crackdown intellectual property, chose other studio to continue the series.

Edge got the chance to talk to Ruffian Games about Crackdown 2 and the comments made by David Jones. Ruffian Games defended Microsoft's decision, saying that they're the right ones to continue the series.

" Close to half of our team worked on the original game. We’ve got core members from every discipline who worked on it, the majority of the design team, and, depending on whom you speak to, some of the best coders and most talented artists. " Creative Director Billy Thomson said. " But there are still guys at Realtime we want to be friends with, so we don’t want to get dragged into a slanging match. "

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