Harvey Smith has left the building, folks.
OK.
So maybe not the building…how about just Midway Austin.
GameTap is reporting that Smith left “by mutual agreement between Harvey and the studio”.
First we had Gerstmann getting canned and now Smith is gone.
Who’s next, kiddies?
You know what they say, right?
They always come in threes.
Who’s next?

You know a game sucks when even the lead designer admits it.
Harvey Smith, lead designer for Blacksite: Area 51, admitted to Wired’s Paul Artz that “this project was fucked up” and that, “we deserved [the bad reviews]“.
Poor guy.
After reading Artz’s piece, I kind of felt sorry for Smith.
But, then again, who polishes a game in four days?!
Smith points out that there is actually a satirical undercurrent in the game and he’s confused as to why the reviews didn’t catch the anti-war sentiment.
Maybe the developers should have been more concerned with producing a quality game than making a political statement.
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