I had heard that designer David Jaffe wanted to stick to more casual type games, and after going through the ringer for games like God of War and Twisted Metal: Black it’s understandable. But if a casual game is what he was after, then he did not succeed. The game is far to repetitive and beyond that far too frustrating to ever be a “pick up and play” title. After about 10 minutes I found myself getting fed up with the game.

Premise works like this, 4 cars race around a cityscape looking for escaped criminals. When you find one, ram into him and he’ll fall into your car… then speed over to the jail and earn some points. Other cars can steal the criminal by ramming into you, and you can do the same to them. It’s really just tag, with the criminals signifying who’s it and the jail is home base. Continue Reading »

It seems as though Joystiq’s snarky comment about the delay of Calling All Cars got David Jaffe all hot and bothered. Jaffe recently took umbrage with some less-than-glowing reviews of the upcoming PlayStation Network title, and Joystiq (naturally) suggested that Jaffe was withholding the title to address some of the issues detailed in those reviews.

Jaffe’s response?

Fuck you, guys. Go fuck yourselves. What other developer makes a fucking change to a game when a review (IGN’s in this case) has a good, valid point and is willing to open the fucking code up at the risk of more bugs to make the game better? Amazing. But hey, you guys are great, you guys rock. I hope Kotaku fucking puts your ass out of business, wanna be fucktards. And if you were actual journalists you would have read the motherfucking quote I posted on NEOGAF where I said because of the two bugs we needed to fix (not because I was afraid of the bargin bin) we had a window of opp. to fix the magnet problem. Assholes…total fucking assholes.

Though Jaffe refuses to name the target of his attack, Joystiq would seem to be the logical assumption based on various aspects of the rant. The Kotaku reference and the mention of the “bargin [sic] bin” really seal the deal.

Jaffe absolutely has the right to respond to his critics, be it with his words or with his work, but the over-the-top vulgarity undermines his points and is quickly turning into a shtick. As a reader, I’m amused by the sensationalism; but as a writer and a mature being, I’m put off by the childish insults.