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| Real Time Worlds is set to expand its workforce Scottish based games developer, Real Time Worlds, is set to expand its Dundee workforce by over 30%. The news comes on the back of this month's world exclusive of the firm's eagerly anticipated new game, Crackdown, developed for Microsoft's next generation console Xbox 360, at the X05 conference in Amsterdam. Crackdown is scheduled for release in the second half of next year. Crackdown will push the action/driving genre into the next generation with the introduction of the first-ever truly 3-dimensional persistent playground, highly innovative co-op gameplay and an extensive prop interaction system. Set in a massive and highly-stylised, crime ridden, urban centre, gamers will enforce justice by any means necessary in a virtual city which encourages players to exploit its full width, depth and height, while exploring routes along, around, across, over, under or through the environment. Crackdown is the first game in this genre to allow players to take on crime with a friend, through online cooperative play. The Dundee development studio, which has successfully attracted employees from across the globe, currently employs 96 staff and boasts outstanding employee retention since the firm's inception in 2002. Looking to fill further programming, art and design roles, Real Time Worlds predicts that its current recruitment drive will increase its workforce by more than 30%, taking it to around 130 before the end of the year. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Game News :: home page |