Gameloft made a splash back in February when they announced that they were hopping on the Unreal Engine bandwagon. This summer it was revealed that March of Heroes would be their first Unreal-based game… And it’d be playable at E3. Naturally, we had our greasy hands all over it at E3, and we even took home some gameplay video:
This information comes courtesy of the Gameloft twitter account, mere moments ago:
With that out of the way, maybe it’s the custom designed tin foil hat I’m wearing right now, but something seems a little fishy about this announcement. First off, Gameloft’s Twitter is notoriously meticulous when it comes to capitalizing things, even to the point of capitalizing “GALAXY" in “Samsung GALAXY," using all the proper periods in “N.O.V.A." instead of just typing “NOVA" like the rest of the world, and more. Secondly, the link they’re linking to is just their generic Facebook page which contains no information on the matter.
So is this a prank, hoax, publicity stunt, or a little of the three? Who knows. I was looking forward to Gameloft throwing their hat into the proverbial Unreal Engine ring, so this is a bit of a bummer if it’s actually true.
Update: Well, it turns out my tinfoil hat was reading tea leaves again, something it really loves to do. Gameloft’s Facebook was just updated with this snippet:
Hi everyone, we know we have a big community of FPS fans here… so we are very sorry to announce that we will not be releasing March of Heroes.
Our developers will be focusing on developing various awesome games in the months to come and working on making them even better. Fans of March of Heroes should definitely look forward to the powerful Modern Combat 3. We are however, not cancelling our work on the Unreal Engine! We are expecting to release these games starting 2012.
So, I suppose, now is the time for rampant speculation as to why it was cancelled instead of just released as-is. The version I saw at E3 seemed very complete.
