Despite claims from The Internet, Activision Leeds aren’t working on a Call of Duty game for mobile platforms. At least not yet. Instead, studio head Martyn Brown (of Team 17 fame) has confirmed to MCV that they’re actually working on a revamp of Pitfall for smartphones.
“In setting up there has been a lot of interest given the publisher we are working with. In the third week of may we revealed we had the studio, and yes it is based in Leeds, and we have hired some key talent in the form of Mark Washbrook and Mark Lloyd,” said.
“The first game we are making is in fact Pitfall, which is 30 years old this year. We’ve been working on Pitfall since earlier in the year when we set up and it has been really good to revisit that and bring it to a modern audience,” he added.
Ed the Penguin
Pitfall! Sweet!
…That is all.
HoboCastro
Looking forward to this. And whoever was playing that video, stop making it look easy.
Porcupine_I
i can already hear people claiming “Super Mario clone”
R1MJAW
One of my favourite games of all time. I remember when it was originally released there was a competition to see who could score more than 200,000 points and send in a photograph for proof of score … I managed it, however the photographs we took didn’t come out properly (blank tv screen) and I was so gutted.
The Lone Steven
And it shall be a FPS set in a modern day setting. The pits are a group who plan to take over the world and are russian. You are Larry, a US marine who is sent to defeat them.
Does seem a bit random that Pitfall is getting revived. On the plus side, Acti seem to be dialing down their obession with making every Developer they have work on COD.
Kennykazey
I’d rather have pitfall on my phone then call of duty, to be honest. So yay!
yogh_wayne
There’s also a brilliant Pitfall remake on LBP2 :) Just compare the screenshots to the video above, it’s amazing.
http://lbp.me/v/sjn-j2/photos
yogh_wayne
Oh, just noticed it’s actually a LBP (the first one) level, so you can play it in both games, LBP and LBP2.
BalramRules
To be perfectly honest, it’s somewhat a surprise, and somewhat not, meh, perhaps a simple deja vu…