Swordfish Looks for Another Cold Winter
Spies-in-training take note - award-winning developer is warming up for another Cold Winter.
Shooter fans with a liking for international espionage and intrigue should be pleased to hear that UK-based developer Swordfish Studios is already hard at work on a follow-up to their gritty PlayStation 2 shooter hit Cold Winter.
But while you would expect a top-rated developer - Swordfish won TIGA's Best Developer award for 2004 - to be itching to climb into the next hardware generation, Swordfish's Julian Widdows, speaking exclusively with Kikizo, said that the game, "is not necessarily next-gen."
Precise details are sketchy at the moment, but the sequel will likely build on the solid story concepts brewed for the original game. Renowned comic writer Warren Ellis crafted both the main story and a detailed backstory for Cold Winter, giving Swordfish a rich world to work in.
While Widdows did not confirmed which platform Cold Winter 2 (or whatever it ends up being called) is coming for, it's likely that it will again be released for PlayStation 2.
The developers were originally planning to release the original game on Xbox too, but publisher VU Games, which recently bought Swordfish, advised the 20-strong design team to skip it.
Check out our full interview with Julian Widdows for more about the making of Cold Winter.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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