COMMANDOS 2 MAC
CONVERSION STALLS
Copyright 2002 www.maccentral.com
[ July 12th 2002 ]
Last
November Macworld Spain first broke the news that
Pyro Studios was working on a Macintosh conversion
of Eidos Interactive's hit title Commandos 2,
a tactical action/strategy game. Editor Guillermo
López followed up his original story today with
less sanguine news in an article entitled Peligra
el lanzamiento de Commandos 2 para Mac. Roughly
translated, the release of Mac Commandos 2 is
in jeopardy.
López
said the Mac version of Commandos 2 was in late
development before Pyro put the brakes on the
project, in need of some final code optimization
and testing. According to Pyro developer Gonzalo
Suárez, the Mac conversion is dead in its tracks
because Eidos has no Macintosh game publishing
experience.
Although
Eidos games have come to the Macintosh before,
the titles have always emerged through third-party
publishing arrangements with other companies.
A spokesman for Pyro told López that no such publisher
has stepped up to the plate with an offer for
the Mac version at this point.
What's
more, Pyro's own resources have been wrapped up
in other work. López said that Pyro has been busy
readying versions of the PlayStation 2 and Xbox
video game console versions of Commandos 2, which
has monopolized the company's limited development
resources.
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