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These days it seems that most triple-A release dates slip like a drunkard on wet stairs – Gears of War 3 being the latest casualty – but Eidos Montreal has promised that its forthcoming Deus Ex prequel will be bang on time.
Earlier this week, art director Jean Jacques-Belletete told VideoGamer.com that the studio was “very confident” that Human Revolution would arrive on schedule. We pushed further, asking if the game would definitely hit its appointed release next February.
“Yeah, yeah definitely,” said Belletete. “For all sorts of reasons I’m not going to mention.”
While he wouldn’t go into specifics about why he was supremely confident, Belletete said that it was the conception of the game, rather than its brass tacks development, that posed the most challenge to Eidos.
“I think it’s been harder to figure out what we had to do, and how to do it, then getting everything done,” he continued. “Once we knew what it was, once we knew how to get the flavour, once I’d figured out what the recipe for the art direction was, and the core team and everything… after that was the easy part. After that was just, here are all the blocks, now pile them on top of each other. But figuring out which blocks to choose, that was tough.”
Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be released in February 2011, on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
