14 DAY TRIAL // Just yesterday, EA made a surprising and somewhat upsetting announcement, saying that Army of Two is being pushed back from its Fall 2007 release on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, according to 1UP.com, to Q1 2008. The respective quarter ends just before March 2008, so there's a pretty good deal of waiting to be done on behalf of the gamer population.
The respective website got their chance to sit down and have a chat with VP and General Manager of EA Montreal and Army of Two Executive Producer, Alan Tascan. 1UP's first question was brief: "So what's the official announcement that you're giving us today?"
Alan Tascan replied: "The announcement is that we're pushing the game to Q1 of next year and the reason is based on the feedback we've had internally and externally. We just want to add extra polish to the game -- I think everyone would want that. Our job is to delight the customer and we feel that we need more time to add the polish."
Just so everyone knows, Army of Two was already entering its review stage. Now, although everyone's used to hearing of a game being pushed back, it's certainly strange to see it get delayed so far off during development. That's what 1UP hinted at when asking Tascan "why it took this long to figure out:"
"This was based on a lot of feedback we had internally and externally," said Tascan. "Where we failed is in questioning whether we could really make the game better. I agree with you that this decision came at the last second, but it still came and I think that's better for everybody. I think the fundamentals are there, we just need to add in the extra polish that we now have the time to do."
Extra polish is never bad, everyone knows that and those who've gotten the chance to try out the game will most likely feel the five-month difference (as far as visuals are concerned anyway). Tascan also revealed that the team has never felt any pressure from EA's higher ups, regarding the release of titles under the giant's label, so he confidently stated that the currently set Q1 deadline for Army of Two hasn't been forced upon them.