"Turtle Rock was in charge of creating the Official CS Bot, designing the final CZ game, and doing all the necessary code work to pull that together. In answering that, Lombardi wasnt quite as forthcoming. Then there's question of how much of the final Condition Zero is Ritual's design and how much is Turtle Rock's. "An interesting bot was something we've wanted for quite a while, so we partnered with him and tabled the 'how to distribute it' question until it became compelling." So why did Valve pick Turtle Rock? " Michael Booth has been developing the CS Bot for more than a year," Lombardi continued. "Roughly four or five months ago, through internal play tests and from early press reviews of what was to be the final, it became obvious that a change was needed to deliver a high-quality experience in CZ," said Lombardi, referring to Ritual's departure. Ultimately, Valve marketing director Doug Lombardi was kind enough to emerge from the media bunker Valve has occupied in the wake of the Half-Life 2 code theft and address the Counter-Strike community's concerns. Turtle Rock's Michael Booth did respond to a GameSpot e-mail, but would only confirm he was involved in the project.
Calls and e-mails to Ritual's lead CZ designer Tom Mustaine were not returned, and Ritual CEO Steve Nix commented politely that he couldnt comment. Naturally, those in the know were tight-lipped. That fact raised a number of questions: Exactly when did Turtle Rock take over from Ritual? Why did Valve let Ritual go? When is the game going gold? If it has gone gold, how much of the final product is Ritual-designed, and how much is Turtle Rock-designed? But over the weekend, word surfaced that a new developer, Turtle Rock Studios, had been hired to take over from Ritual Entertainment to finish the game. Last week, a post from Valve founder Gabe Newell said Condition Zero would shortly go gold. CSX is getting strong reviews (e.g, "This is the shooter / combat title of the holiday season"), and we've already surpassed our initial load-in forcast on the game.Īs stated in this story, the expected shelf date was actually yesterday which is why we have this update.Just when you thought things couldn't get more hectic over at Valve, word comes that clarifies behind-the-scenes turmoil regarding Condition Zero, the long-delayed single-player sequel to Counter-Strike. It will be shipping in all other territories in the coming days. On the Xbox front, Microsoft has released Counter-Strike for the Xbox in North America and it is in stores. Sierra has not confirmed retail release dates for the product but we're hopeful it will be available shortly. Right now, we're doing some additional work on the foreign versions and are hoping to have those wrapped up and submitted to Sierra this week. We're done with development on the English version and have submitted a replication master to Sierra for manufacturing. I've been getting questions about the release of Condition Zero, and wanted to put out an update. Here's what the deal is as of now straight from Jess Cliffe at Valve:
COUNTER STRIKE CONDITION ZERO RELEASE DATE UPDATE
The folks at Valve have sent along a note for an update on Counter-Strike: Condition Zero which went gold recently for the US version.
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