Stuart Black leaves Codemasters, walks away from Bodycount


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Creative Director to leave months before game's release.

Written by David Scammell, 19 July 2010

Codemasters has confirmed that Stuart Black will be leaving the company in October, months before his first game with the firm Bodycount launches next year.

"Having created a great vision and direction for Bodycount, Stuart has decided to move on after three years with us," said a Codemasters representative.

Download P3Zine Issue 38P3Zine Issue 38 GamerZines Magazine For our latest Bodycount coverage, click here to download P3Zine Issue 38 for free."He will see out his design role until October and, through the transition period, will continue to work with the talented development team that will take the game through to completion."

Black, who previously worked on Criterion's shooter Black, is rumoured to be leaving due to an internal bust-up, though it's not known where he'll be headed next.

Black, who is Bodycount's creative director, has been incredibly vocal throughout the game's development, telling OXM that he felt the majority of first-person shooters were "f*cking boring", and that EA lacked respect for individual team members. He also said that Lady Gaga and JJ Abrams were both influences on the upcoming shooter.

Bodycount launches on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 early next year. Stuart Black probably won't be attending the launch party.

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Black is pompous, and I'd say that his upcoming FPS looks like one of the most boring FPS games I've seen in quite a while, to be quite frank.

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Publishers != developers. While it is the CM studio, the guy hasn't even made a CM game before. To write off this game based on others totally unrelated makes no sense.

The guy has a long history of games, he's not exactly inexperienced.

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Black was brilliant mindless fun imo, plus it was a tech achievement on the Xbox

I was talking about Black the person, not Black the game. Black the person seems a bit pompous and high on himself.

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