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Offline MC_Honky

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Harpoon Cancelled !!!!!
« on: November 28, 2003, 05:38:18 PM »
Lot's of fun memory's with the orgional.  Here's the press release:



SAN FRANCISCO - November 26, 2003 - Ubisoft™, one of the world's largest videogame publishers, today announced that it has officially ceased production on Harpoon IV and has chosen not to release the title.

"Ubisoft is committed to making the best military simulation games possible, and unfortunately, the Harpoon IV project wasn't meeting this goal. In our judgment, the product quality could never reach a level that meets or exceeds consumer expectations," said Tony Kee, vice president of marketing, Ubisoft. "We will never intentionally ship a product that is sure to disappoint our discerning customer base."


While the game will not be finished or published by Ubisoft, discussions are underway to license the source code to a third-party group within the community in order to finish the game. Information regarding this development will be available soon at the game's community website harpoon4.ubi.com.
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Offline Otto

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« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2003, 06:12:10 PM »
That game starts and stops more than my old 1971 Toyota.
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Offline Pongo

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« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2003, 07:27:05 PM »
If they sold so many when you needed a masters degree in boot disks to even play the thing imagine how many they could sell now.
idgits.
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Offline Animal

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« Reply #3 on: November 28, 2003, 07:52:17 PM »
I dont know. Ubisoft has a reputation of releasing a good amount of top notch games recently, such as Rainbow Six 3 (XBox), Prince of Persia 3 (XBox), IL2 & FB, etc, so it would make no sense to ruin it by releasing half assed software.

I rather more companies have better quality control, than release crap.

Remember Gunship!
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Offline Curval

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« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2003, 07:57:49 PM »
Disappointed.  Harpoon was my first gaming addiction.

..and lol to Pongo.  Been there.
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Offline ygsmilo

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« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2003, 10:09:54 PM »
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If they sold so many when you needed a masters degree in boot disks to even play the thing imagine how many they could sell now.
idgits.


Thats got to be the best comment I have read on this board in a while,,,

Thats the first computer game I ever played.  Started out with the box game, used to drive my wife crazy as I turned the living room into the north sea :)
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Offline Pongo

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« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2003, 02:45:11 AM »
Sneak a knox out of the formation and light up all its radars..the stupid commies would fire every thing they had at the poor bugger and then you could hit em hard...
My knox class captains didnt think much of my tactics.
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« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2003, 04:00:42 AM »
Whew!, I thought you meant Harpoon ale.
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« Reply #8 on: November 29, 2003, 09:14:14 AM »
Who still has the original or HarpII? I'll buy a copy of either. I lost mine years ago. Can't count the number of hours lost to that game.
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Offline Sox62

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« Reply #9 on: November 29, 2003, 09:22:30 AM »
I remember my first PC....12mhz 286.I thought,I can't leave the store without a game,so I bought Harpoon.It locked up EVERY TIME in the first mission no matter what I tried.

Frustrated,the next day I looked over some more games,and purchased "Their Finest Hour-The Battle of Britain",and I've been a flight sim guy ever since.
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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #10 on: November 29, 2003, 12:18:52 PM »
Harpoon4 may be released by someone else later, ill just enjoy the good old harpoon3 until 4 is released by someone.
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« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2003, 12:25:26 PM »
Aw, loved that game , one of the 1st I played... and i STILL have it on my harddrive, with all the scenario packs :)
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Offline BlckMgk

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« Reply #12 on: November 29, 2003, 02:00:37 PM »
Yeah Harpoon online, via AOL, along with Air Warrior on AOL where probably my first multiplayer games... omg... I loved those games..

I recently was looking for harpoon, and stumbled across #4, its a shame that they're not going to release, I was hoping to actually get back into the naval strategy...

Thanks for the info..
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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #13 on: November 29, 2003, 02:58:08 PM »
Harpoon2 and the updated harpoon3 rank among the best modern naval games out there when it comes to realism. It may not offer any eye-candy, but from my experiences with real naval simulators its fairly accurate.

We used something similar at the naval academy, and i've read somewhere that the US navy also used it for a while.
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Offline Charon

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« Reply #14 on: November 29, 2003, 02:58:24 PM »
Yeah, this sucks. They are, apparently, turning the code over to somebody though.

Charon
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