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Altered Carbon Author Working with EA on Three Games
by Garnett Lee, Nov 03, 2009 6:10pm PSTAuthor Richard Morgan, best known for his cyberpunk sci-fi novel Altered Carbon, revealed on his blog that he's been working with Electronic Arts as a consultant on three upcoming games (via A Dribble of Ink). He explains that the relationship started with an email from John Miles at EA about a year ago. A meeting with Miles and fellow EA employees Jeff Gamon and Colin Robinson resulted in an offer to write the script for a project already underway and to consult on future games. Part of the deal included heading off to Berlin the next week and since it seems he accepted we can assume that was his next stop.
While Morgan does not disclose what projects he might be on the names and locations offer plenty of clues. Miles, who initially reached out to him, recently has been working with the EA Partners group which includes developers Crytek and Starbreeze. The quick trip to Berlin put him only a short train ride away from Crytek's headquarters in Frankfurt. Morgan's gritty style would definitely fit well with the Crysis franchise. But hold on, before we forget, Crytek also bought developer Free Radical earlier this year, including the rights to the TimeSplitters IP, and kept the studio in the UK running. That sounds like two perfect fits already.
As to whether Starbreeze is involved that seems too be out. They're currently working on a Bourne game for EA. More likely, given Morgan's strengths, is that he would be working on the Mirror's Edge sequel Patrick Soderlund said a small team was working on already back at E3. So there you go, three games: writing a new TimeSplitters (4), and consulting on the next Crysis game and Mirrors Edge 2.
UPDATE: Or, as Chris just pointed out to me, maybe Starbreeze isn't out of the picture. We reported earlier this year that EA planned to revive Syndicate. At the time rumors pointed to Starbreeze being the studio tabbed to take the project.
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Altered Carbon series is very good, but I think his two best books are not in the series. Black Man is a similar idea to Altered Carbon but is based more in the real world, near future.
He also has a fantasy series he's working on that is particularly awesome.
I am super excited about this, but I honestly don't care at all for the Crysis games. Far Cry 2 I liked plenty, but am now realizing that Crytek was not involved in that. Hopefully he's teamed up with somebody different.
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Berlin - Frankfust is anything but a short train ride, and with Frankfurt having one of the largest airports in the world vs a rather small one in Berlin, there is no point in flying to Berlin if you want to go to Frankfurt.
And EA itself is in Cologne I believe, so there has to be another game...
If you like sci-fi, especially "cyberpunk", and haven't read Richard K. Morgan you owe it to yourself to check him out. He is the best thing to come along since Neal Stephenson (before he wandered off into the 18th century ).
I can't wait to see what he's doing with games.
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When authors get involved in projects like this they run the risk of over exposure and alienating their original fans for the sake of extra money. Then 10 years from now people sit around on forums saying "Yeah man, Altered Carbon kicked ass!" instead of talking about the author's new work as it's often trivialized for the sake of said money.
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While Morgan does not disclose what projects he might be on the names and locations offer plenty of clues. Miles, who initially reached out to him, recently has been working with the EA Partners group which includes developers Crytek and Starbreeze. The quick trip to Berlin put him only a short train ride away from Crytek's headquarters in Frankfurt. Morgan's gritty style would definitely fit well with the Crysis franchise. But hold on, before we forget, Crytek also bought developer Free Radical earlier this year, including the rights to the TimeSplitters IP, and kept the studio in the UK running. That sounds like two perfect fits already.
Isn't this an incredibly tenuous stretch? I say leave that sort of thing to Kotaku.