Gamers that want to have their very own white slave boy indentured servant for Xbox 360 Kinect will be disappointed in the rumor that Lionhead’s Milo & Kate has been cancelled. In late June, Microsoft Game Studios creative director Peter Molyneux assured that world that Milo was coming. Kotaku‘s sources said otherwise:
Fable developer Lionhead Studios’ ambitious Milo project for Xbox 360’s Kinect add-on may have finally been put to bed. Sources claiming to have knowledge of the tech demo’s development tell Kotaku that Project Milo has been effectively shut down.
That same source indicates that the technology that powered Project Milo — which has also been referred to as Milo & Kate — will live on in another form, a Kinect-enabled game based on the Fable franchise.
Although some of the tech in Milo & Kate is truly fascinating, the early versions of the game (if you can even call it that) didn’t really look like something that could provide hours of entertainment. Perhaps that’s what Lionhead discovered too. If the game has been cancelled then it will just add to Molyneux’s controversial reputation of over promising and under delivering. Whether that’s fair or not is another matter entirely.
What do you think of the latest Milo & Kate rumor? Are any of you disappointed? Or did you expect this to happen? Is Molyneux’s over-promising-and-under-delivering rep justified or undeserved?
Not surprising at all. All that really matters is that the tech behind it lives on. (My bet was it getting implemented in a full Fable game.)
I am not disappointed at all. I honestly still believe that there was NO tech behind the demo and it was just a pre-rendered well timed movie. Also he was very creepy.
I wasn't sure about getting the Kinect, but now that I have my Move and it is full of so much Win I figure I had better try out Kinect.
I'm sure pedophiles across the country are very saddened by this news.
@Slicky;
I completely agree… except for the "Move" part of your statement. I can't agree with you since I don't have it and wouldn't know.
-M
There was just too much controversy surrounding how the game could be implemented and what kind of content would be available or made available by anyone that had the brains to mod it up.