Cliff Bleszinski describes the People Can Fly studio as a “team of developers who are slightly off their fucking rockers.” After PCF finished work on Gears of War for the PC, Epic wanted to work on something brand new with the studio. “We were like there’s gotta be something bigger and cooler that we can do together. Something that’s just tremendous and that would really make an impact. Then we decided why not make an entirely new world? Why not make a new IP? A whole new universe.”
“I love Gears,” Cliff continued. Gears is near and dear to us. The hype for Gears 3 is turning out great. That’s awesome. But what really, really gets me out of bed in the morning is crafting a whole new world and that’s what we’re doing right here [with Bulletstorm].
Cliff likes to think of game designers as the “Stan Lees and Jack Kirbys of our day. We’re able to build these whole new worlds that hopefully, if we do a good job, will go on for many many games and will have many many fans.”
What do you think? Does Epic have another potential epic franchise on their hands?
