It seems like marketing suicide to admit as much, but Bethesda has said it's concerned about the quality of its free-to-play hack ‘n’ slasher BattleCry, and is in the process of evaluating it. Looking at the early trailers it didn’t take a genius to work out it wasn’t looking top-tier, but this is the first tacit admission that BattleCry could be on the rocks.
Due to the game's conspicuous absence at recent industry events, questions began to circulate regarding the status of the project. In response, Bethesda revealed that the project is undergoing evaluation. In a statement issued to Progress Bar, the publisher said: "We have concerns about the Battlecry game and whether it is meeting the objectives we have for it. We are evaluating what improvements the game needs to meet our quality standards. The studio remains busy during this process on multiple projects." It is unusual for a games publisher to publicly discuss reservations it has for a game that it is tasked with promoting. With Battlecry undergoing evaluation, one possibility could be that Bethesda will want the project to be built under a new direction. At this stage it is also not unforeseeable that the project could be cancelled entirely. Any decision the publisher makes could have some impact on Battlecry Studios, the Texas-based studio tasked with building the game.
If you haven’t been aware of BattleCry up until now, it’s a third-person multiplayer action game with shooting elements. It’s class-based with abilities unique to each of the five classes, the twist being it exists in a reality where gunpowder is outlawed entirely. That means no shotguns and sniper rifles, but rather shurikens and arrows to take down your foes. The premise seems decent enough but gameplay footage has looked thoroughly underwhelming so far, and certainly not up to the level we’d expect from a Bethesda title.
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