Hudo Firefoxprime - That's cool to hear. I'm sure everyone who worked on those titles years ago would be glad to hear that too.
I was playing "Burnout" 3 earlier as well on my Xbox 360. I still keep it for Revenge and Takedown - and believe it or not, my Xmas present to myself was "Forza 2" (well worth ÂŁ1.90!) so I'm playing a lot of 360 at the moment.
MrDoctor that's such a nonsense story. we would have *NEVER* done anything like that. we were asked if we were interested in doing what became the first Forza during the development of B2, and Mad Max IIRC as well.
To lay it to rest once and for all. One day, whilst working as full time employee at Criterion Games, a company which EA acquired from Canon - a marketing person from NoE rang me up and asked me if there would ever be a chance we could take a crack at F-Zero. I laughed at this and pointed him towards contacting a guy called Joel Linzner (who was the senior person at EA who dealt with Sony, MS and NTDO). There was no way any of this could have ever come to fruition. We were deep into making "Need for Speed Hot Pursuit" and had more than enough "stuff" to deal with on a daily basis. There was never going to be a way for us to handle making two games at the same time. Tried that when we did "Revenge" and "BLACK" at the same time - and anyone who was there would agree that both games suffered massively as a result. So please don't be "pissed" about anything. Because there really is nothing to be angry about.
I was playing B3 earlier today - just finished the Coupe Grand Prix!