Eight Days in Full Production, The Getaway in Pre-Production

by Patrick Steen on April 28, 2008 at 6:39 am

Despite a worrying silence from Sony on a selection of E3 2005-06 games, you’ll be pleased to know that Eight Days and The Getaway are both alive and well.

In a tour of Sony London, British newspaper The Guardian was lucky enough to spy on the development teams’ projects. Arguably Sony’s most important European development team, Sony London have innovated the likes of the Eye Toy and Singstar. Their graphics technology has also impressed, with the PS2’s The Getaway being one of the most graphically impressive open world games of it’s time (though the gameplay couldn’t match Grand Theft Auto.)

This has continued into current PS3 development, with E3 tech demos of Piccadilly Circus promising incredible London visuals in the “next-gen” version of The Getaway. Sony London’s tech wizards have also been offering themselves to other PS3 projects, from LittleBigPlanet to Killzone 2.

Mike Haigh, director of the London Studio, shows The Guardian round, eventually leading to the floor that has Eight Days in full flung production:

“Moving up from floor to floor, we see Eight Days – which is just ramping up to full production. To get an idea of the scale of development required on next-gen consoles, the team, currently numbering 63, will expand to about 80 with a further 40 or so outsourced workers.”

This game will then be followed by The Getaway, in pre-production at the moment:

“A small team is working on pre-production for the next iteration of The Getaway, in preparation for being joined by the bulk of the Eight Days team when the latter is completed.”

It’s definitely a development team run to military precision, and we hope these two games will be the hit Playstation 3 exclusives they wish them to be.

Source: The Guardian

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