The Initiative, a studio owned by Microsoft which was announced during E3 2018 have brought in more talent to the team and this time it’s from Game Of The Year contender, God of War. Chris O’Neill, who was a Level Designer for God of War now joins the team headed by Darrell Gallagher, who worked on the Tomb Raider franchise at Crystal Dynamics who was there for ten years. This past October another great in Tom Shepherd joined the studio as a Technical Director who was formerly with Rockstar Games. There was also the addition of Sunset Overdrive Director, Drew Murray which is one to not forget.
Windows Central found out that Chris O’Neill had started working at The Initiative due to his LinkedIn profile which says he has only worked there for one month and has had history with not only Santa Monica Studios, but with Kojima Productions as well. So it’s no question that Chris has experience in working on some great single player titles and with this addition it seems more likely that this studios’ title will more than likely be a single player game which would be great for Xbox One and Microsoft as they’ve been criticized for not having enough and have had too much focus on multiplayer in the past.
What are your thoughts on this news and are you excited to learn more about The Initiative’s next game? We’ll probably hear more about it as the year goes on toward E3.
