Eidos_ Sequels, and Sequels to Sequels

Eidos’ Ian Livingstone, recently named Wookiee Life President or Square Enix Proconsul or something, gave a kitchen-sink interview in which sequels for nearly every major Eidos IP were tipped, teased or confirmed.

https://kotaku.com/eidos-president-for-life-5233408

Speaking to Gaming Indians, Livingstone says IO Interactive is working on a new Hitman title; Kane and Lynch 2 has a hoped-for release of September, and he doesn’t exactly dispel the idea that Eidos Montreal’s “secret project” is Thief IV.

That leaves Tomb Raider, which released Underworld last [[link]] year to disappointing sales. Are they working on a sequel to that, too? Oh hell yes they are!

“The next Tomb Raider, I think, will surprise a lot of people and reinvigorate the franchise. There are some remarkable things we’re doing in the next Tomb Raider to make you say, “Oh Lara, I love you so much!”

All this is in addition to Deus Ex 3, already underway at Montreal. (Livingstone indicates that might be released in 2010.) What, no Just [[link]] Cause 2? Oh, right [[link]] …

https://kotaku.com/just-cause-2-screens-fall-out-of-plane-and-explode-31011178

That’s five projects, all of them sequels. I think porn studios come up with more original IP. Of course, Hitman 5 probably sells better than “Donkey Punch 22.”

Eidos President Talks Arkham, Thief, Hitman, Tomb Raider and More [Gaming Indians]