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Man, talk about a find.
The reason for it being canned so late seems to be mostly on internal higher up conflict within Lucasarts, whose leadership became bean counters. https://www.eurogamer.net/free-radical-vs-the-monsters
A scientist in Goldeneye was called Doak. The scientists were named after the creative team, I wonder if it ks the same guy.
Now I dont know where I got te factoid though
Yep, David Doak gave us GoldenEye, TimeSplitters, and apparently this lost relic too!
Who did Perfect Dark?
Martin Hollis, but Doak was co-designer. https://www.mobygames.com/game/4034/perfect-dark/credits/n64/
(Also it's crazy how short credits were back then. I left a Ubisoft credit scroll going a few years ago and I swear it took 45 minutes.)
Tbf, the early games industry was notoriously bad at crediting people
Look at the link at the top of this comment thread, great read and tells you how small the teams were back then
15 for Timesplitters 1, around 30 for Timesplitters 2, according to Steve Ellis and Lee Ray on that Eurogamer piece.
I thought the same thing as I read this. Makes me think it’s gotta be him