'Star Trek: The Game' Panned By 'Into Darkness' Director J.J. Abrams, Developer Speaks Out

"Warframe" developer Digital Extremes has been pretty busy the past few weeks with the launch of Sony's next-genreation console the PlayStation 4 having its North American launch last Friday. Somehow Sony found a way to bring the developer on board to get "Warframe" on the PlayStation 4. The development company's creative director Stephen Sinclair discussed this as well as the critically panned "Star Trek: The Game" in a recent interview with IGN.

"Star Trek: The Game" was released just before the debut of director J.J. Abrams' sequel to his 2009 reboot "Star Trek: Into Darkness" and received low ratings. Sinclair acknowledges there were some problems with the game that may have justified the low scores. However, he says he was "shook" by Abrams' recent critique of the game in which he said the game "without question didn't help the movie and arguably hurt it."

Abrams made these comments despite having worked directly with the development studio on the project.

"I think if the owner of the company was here he'd be doing that neck thing with his hand, like, 'say nothing!'" said Sinclair, who worked on the game for a year. "I don't think J.J. was trying to throw Digital Extremes under a bus, I think he was talking about the political forces that were affecting the game.

"I don't mean to speak cryptically, and I'm not trying to diffuse blame, but the game we did just before that was The Darkness 2 and it was the same crew working on that game as it was on Star Trek. That game came out with an 80-plus Metacritic rating. The ambitions were high for Star Trek and there's some awesome co-op stuff there.

"I was kind of surprised, personally, to see one of the most awesome, popular and successful film directors working today slagging on that project. It kind of shook me, actually."