I played for a bit this afternoon, and you could've fooled me. The cutscenes are smooth, but gameplay's been pretty choppy. Unless it's hopping from 30fps to something 30+, it's sure not performing better.
@kazeswen: While it hasn't ended yet, there is a definitive ending coming soon with volume 20. (Though he might stretch it to 21, as his originally planned "they all die" ending has been re-written.)
@cornbredx: It's a common thing when outsourcing, and using freelancers. It's way easier to track in other forms of software development, but game development is a whole different ballgame. Most times it's accidental, especially with shared personal folders on a server at a studio, but plagiarism does happen, especially when your freelancer lives a continent away, and they've lifted something from a property that you're unfamiliar with.
@streamline: Activision and EA have both stopped doing that, which is why they're all made up names, or historical ones, and why CoD's gone sci-fi. (Probably why DICE went WWI, too.)
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