Activision CEO Bobby Kotick was unusually forward in a recent interview when discussing quality of development. Turns out they've learned a lot from partner Blizzard and their comittment to this end, and as a result, he seems unafraid to admit they haven't lived up to that as of late, at least with the Spider-Man license.
"Our Spider-Man games have sucked for the last five years," said Kotick. "They are bad games. They were poorly rated because they were bad games. We went away from what is Spider-Man . It's about web-slinging. If you don't do web-slinging, what is the fantasy of Spider-Man ?"
While Kotick is infamous for being upfront about company policy, to our recollection he's never flat-out said any of the company's titles were bad. Even more strangely, some of us actually enjoyed Web of Shadows.
Nevertheless, Activision appears to be taking cues from Electronic Arts here, who've also been confessing their gaming sins these past few years. If it's genuine, and a signal to a new direction for the company, we're all for it.
Source:GameGrep
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