I hope you weren’t patiently waiting for Hideo Kojima to put aside all his mysterious Metal Gear Solid 5 work aside and get going on a new Zone of the Enders – because while work on that had started, it’s now been put on hold.
The reason? The recently released Zone of the Enders HD Collection – available for PS3 and Xbox 360 – hasn’t quite lived up to expectations. In doing the conversion, the team behind the re-release bumped the gameplay from its 30 fps to 60fps, but the classic gameplay’s suffered. The collection will soon be receiving a PS3 patch to fix issues – but negative fan feedback has weighed heavy on Kojima’s soul.
Enough, apparently, to disband the entire team behind it and the impending ‘The Enders Project,’ an intended sequel. As a result, Kojima would like to “re-evaluate the franchise” before taking it any further.
Zone of the Enders was released for the PlayStation 2 back in 2001, and has since spawned an infinitely better sequel, a Game Boy Advance spinoff, an animated feature film movie, and a twenty-six episode anime series.
Do you even care? I certainly don’t. I’m not exactly a big Kojima fan as it is, but Z.O.E is one of his series that’s completely failed to excite me.
Last Updated: May 6, 2013
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
May 6, 2013 at 14:06
Never played it actually…..
umar bastra
May 6, 2013 at 14:21
jehuty ….. How I wish to be inside you again … *ahem*
Really sad was so looking forward to this, hopefully this doesn’t spell the end for ZOE this series deserves more games