Joe Danger 2 The Movie Preview: Welcome to the Danger Zone
You can tell a lot about a game by the environment that it’s made in, I reckon. Go to EA Sport’s Vancouver campus and you’ll find yourself in the aftermath of a collision between a games development studio and a space age sports centre: a full-sized basketball court crash-lands between banks of monitors piping out wire-framed superstars, and small plasma screens in each of the toilets blare out the stat-heavy ESPN news channel all day long. Indie outfit Hello Games’ office in Guildford is something else entirely: a small, snug office that shares its lot with a local taxi firm, there’s just enough room for the 12-strong team to bounce off the brightly coloured walls as they put the finishing touches to the forthcoming Joe Danger sequel. And bounce around they do thanks to the amount of Relentless that’s sloshing around the place. There’s an enthusiasm and energy to Hello Games that goes beyond the intake of energy drinks, though: here’s a team that seems to be in love with its work, which isn’t a surprise when the result’s something as infectiously entertaining as Joe Danger. Read more…
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