Max Payne Creator and his Dream Team coming to Next Gen

Samuli Syvähuoko, one of the co-founders of Remedy Entertainment, the company responsible for the hugely successful Max Payne franchise, has formed a new development studio called Recoil Games and begun development on a new Next Gen game.

Syvähuoko has assembled a virtual super group of game designers and artists to get Recoil off to a fast start. The company's founding team members each have an average of ten years of experience in the game industry and hail from a virtual who's who list of developers including Codemasters, Electronic Arts, Guerrilla Games (Sony), Remedy Entertainment, Treyarch (Activision) and Ubisoft both in Finland and internationally.

Recoil's hook is they plan to create games based around a disaster movie kind of theme to create games on an extra-large scale. Sounds risky, but interesting.

From the company's press release:

"Established in January and based in Helsinki, Finland, Recoil Games Ltd. focuses on the creation of action games with the scope, feel and ensemble cast of disaster movies. This is a large untapped area of the industry and Recoil plans to lead the way with its innovative Cinegames design techniques. These games will feature huge stories, and require a large ensemble cast-often working together-to solve the many varied challenges, including internal human conflict, another area most overlooked in today's action games. These games will be released for current and next-generation consoles and PC."

Recoil's first game will be an original IP (intellectual property) utilizing in-house technology as well as licensed third-party tools and is targeted at the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

It will be interesting to see if a team of such uber-talented people can all work together on a common goal without getting sidetracked by individual agendas. If the game ends up having half the attitude and fun of Max Payne, it'll be one worth watching.