Английская Википедия:Evolution Studios

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Evolution Studios Ltd. was a British video game developer based in Runcorn, Cheshire. The company was founded in 1999 by Martin Kenwright and Ian Hetherington, following the purchase of their studio Digital Image Design's publisher Ocean Software by Infogrames. Kenwright then left Digital Image Design with six members of staff to form Evolution Studios.

Company history

Then based in Frodsham, Cheshire, it developed a racing demo on PC, depicting multiple rally cars racing on a circuit with cockpit views, which was subsequently picked up by Sony as it was interested in a PlayStation 2 game based on the World Rally Championship licence.

Both Evolution and their satellite studio, Bigbig Studios, in Warwickshire were acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in September 2007. At this point, Kenwright and Hetherington left the company, with its co-founder Mick Hocking taking over, running Evolution, Bigbig and Studio Liverpool as Group Studio Director. Hocking was subsequently promoted to Vice President of the Studio Group in April 2011.

The developer's last game was Driveclub. It was scheduled as a PlayStation 4 launch title, although it was ultimately delayed, until October 2014. They claim they had trademarked the name of the game almost 10 years ago, but were waiting for the technology to create their vision of the game.Шаблон:Citation needed

On 23 March 2015, 55 staff members were cut from Evolution Studio, which sources say is approximately half of the studio. The redundancies have been described by Sony as a way to focus the studio on developing Driveclub as a service. On 22 March 2016, Sony announced that Evolution Studios was closed.

On 11 April 2016, the development team joined Codemasters as Codemasters EVO, which would be renamed as Codemasters Cheshire. After the disappointing sales of their next game Onrush, several members of the Codemasters Cheshire development division were let go in redundancies, including game director Paul Rustchynsky, and the division was shifted to a support role for other Codemasters titles. In May 2022, the team at Codemasters Cheshire was merged into Criterion Games, an EA subsidiary.

Games developed

Year	Game	Platform(s)	GameRankings	Metacritic	Notes
2001	World Rally Championship	PlayStation 2	81.33%	80/100
2002	WRC II Extreme		82.33%	Шаблон:N/A
2003	WRC 3		79.38%	Шаблон:N/A
2004	WRC 4		81.86%	Шаблон:N/A
2005	WRC: Rally Evolved		79.81%	Шаблон:N/A
2006	MotorStorm	PlayStation 3	82.43%	84/100
2008	MotorStorm: Pacific Rift		82.49%	82/100
2011	MotorStorm: Apocalypse		78.34%	77/100
2012	MotorStorm: RC	PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita	78.35%	78/100
2014	Driveclub	PlayStation 4	70.72%	71/100

External links

• Шаблон:MobyGames company