Manhunt 2 forgets Rockstar Vienna
Manhunt 2 simply cannot escape controversy. Is it the name? the developer? the publisher? The latest snafu involves the former team at Rockstar Vienna, which apparently worked on the game for over two years and then weren’t given credit on the final product.
I’m interested to see what’s the official Rockstar stance on this….
On his personal blog, a former producer at Rockstar Vienna named Jurie Horneman says he is “disappointed and outraged” that he and his co-workers are not included in the game’s credits. Vienna worked on Manhunt 2 from January 2004 until the studio was closed in May 2006 and development was moved over to Rockstar London. Horneman lists the names and titles of 55 employees who aren’t given credit in the game, with the exception of one team member who did not wish to be credited.
Horneman says folks from other Rockstar studios besides London also worked on Manhunt 2, and they are listed in the credits.
“I am sure someone somewhere is going to say that Rockstar Vienna was closed down because our work on Manhunt 2 was of insufficient quality,” says Horneman. “This is the kind of thing that cannot be proven one way or another, so all I will say is that this was not the case. I do not want to denigrate what Rockstar London did on Manhunt 2, but as far as I can tell (from analyzing screenshots, previews, etc.) the majority of the work we did at Rockstar Vienna is in the released game. Rearranged and modified, but it’s there.”
Horneman says he is proud of the work he did with Rockstar Vienna on Manhunt 2.
As of this writing, Rockstar had not returned IGN’s request for comment.
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