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Details Emerge About Canceled Xbox One Exclusive RPG Stormlands
There have been no shortage of cancelled Xbox One exclusives over the past few years. However, here's one you might have heard about, called Stormlands.
Eurogamer got the exclusive as part of the publication's coverage of developer Obsidian Entertainment and it sounds like a fascinating project:
"We were given a proposal, the million-man raid," Obsidian co-owner and CEO, Feargus Urquhart, tells me. "Conceptually what came from Microsoft was this idea: imagine you're playing The Witcher, maybe with a friend. What happens if at points in time a giant creature pops up that you can see in the distance and it's not just popping up while you're playing, it's popping up for everybody who's playing. You all rush this creature and there's this haze around it, and as you're all rushing through the haze the game is matchmaking you into 40-man raids who are going to fight the creature.
For more on Stormlands, and why it never came to be, read the whole article here. And be sure to check out our review of Obsidian's latest, Tyranny.
[Source: Eurogamer]
Our Take
What a bummer. This game sounds like it could have been something really special and the Xbox One is in dire need of some exclusives, as editor Matt Bertz points out in his feature here.
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