ABSTRACT
Ed Fries approached Liverpool-based Bizarre Creations to adapt their Dreamcast title, Metropolis Street Racer for the Xbox, which became the launch title Project Gotham Racing. NFL Fever was another launch title developed by Microsoft Game Studios. The decision to go with Microsoft hinged primarily on the answer to one important and currently unresolved, question. Stuart Moulder story may represent what many people at Microsoft believed, but Allard contends that the situation was quite different. The deal Fries brokered was that Take Two could have all the back-catalogue rights and that Microsoft would fund the completion of Oni for Take Two to publish. Jordan Weisman, who had joined Microsoft with the FASA acquisition, was another one of the people called in to help convince Bungie. Learning from their mistakes and becoming more aware of the idiosyncrasies of game development, Microsoft sought to allow Bungie to keep a more autonomous studio culture.
