"Yang Zhan, help me check whether there are any other game software studios worth acquiring in the Soviet Union besides this 1C company." Yang Yun called Yang Zhan, who was far away in Hong Kong, but soon received a strange reply.

On the phone, Yang Zhan asked, "1C company?" This company is not in the sights of our strategy department at all, are you sure it has been founded? ”

This...... Could it be that Yang Yun has forgotten the time again? What if 1C isn't established at all now?

"Mr. Yang, I don't know about 1C, but there is a company worth investing in, called Distinctive, located in Canada, and I suggest that the company take it down." Yang Zhan made another suggestion.

Canada, Distinctive, Yang Yun was surprised! Isn't this the development team behind Need for Speed?

"Acquisition! Must be acquired! Yang Yun shouted without hesitation, "This company, you let Jiang Shaoyun contact first, it's too bad, EA company must have taken a fancy to them, I'm afraid it's too late!" Yang Zhan, you hurry up and fly to Canada and solve this matter for me! ”

Yang Zhan was a little strange and said, "So urgent? How do you know EA is going to want it? Actually, Distinctive has a good relationship with our SEGA, having also developed games on the MD platform for the first two years, and he is our game supplier. ”

"But he's also a PC game supplier to EA!" It was inconvenient for Yang Yun to explain too much, but under Yang Zhan's reminder, he slowly calmed down.

Need for Speed can't go public that quickly, and it was a few years after EA acquired Distinctive. and other hardware conditions have been greatly improved, especially after the development of graphics cards and GPUs. EA has only just started developing the Need for Speed series.

There are two main reasons why Distinctive can be favored by EA. One is that it's a Canadian company, EA is familiar with it, and it can eliminate a potential Canadian competitor, and the second reason is that Distinctive's racing game does a good job of making up for one of EA's shortcomings.

There are many companies that are very good at making racing games, Codemasters "Dust", EA "Need for Speed". EA's "Hot Race", Microsoft's "Forza Autosport", Sony's "Gran Turismo", Atari Studios' "Test Drive Unlimited", Disney's "Race Against the Clock", Belgium's 10TACLE's "GTR", Ferrari's official "Ferrari Virtual Driving Academy".

There are real racing cars, there are exaggerated racing cars, and there are pure keyboard operations. There are also cockpit simulators that must be controlled, and racing fans have a very high degree of choice and personal preferences.

Whether a racing game is done well or not depends mainly on how well the game engine is performed. Whether the real collision effect is done well, whether the model is beautiful, and whether the weather environment is real. How the particles of the picture are effected, in a word. Everything has to be built with a strong visual impact, and players of this type of game value the realism of the game the most.

But the current hardware is just not enough to see. Even if Distinctive were acquired, Need for Speed would not be able to do it, and they would have to continue to develop a few of their original generic racing games.

In case it is really preempted by EA, Yang Yun has other ways, such as organizing another group of people to develop independently, or acquiring Codemasters to develop the dust series, or launching GTR.

Therefore, if you can grab Need for Speed, Yang Yun doesn't want to miss this opportunity, even if you can't develop Need for Speed now, you can't be cheap EA for nothing!

Yang Yun said: "I still can't rest assured. Yang Zhan, you immediately fly to Canada in person and negotiate with Distinctive as soon as possible. Since they have a good relationship with the Sega platform, then let's sign a contract with him for an exclusive game, if not, then they will be acquired, if they can't be acquired, the core jishu team will be poached at the worst. ”

Yang Zhan agreed: "I understand what to do!" ”

Yang Yun advised: "Attention, don't turn your face with EA for the time being." EA is our partner now, but sooner or later it will turn into a mortal enemy! We still have 20 people in EA Labs right now, and when the day comes when we really turn around, all of them will have to get out early! ”

Distinctive will first be negotiated by Yang Zhan, and the Longteng strategic department now has a large team, with special personnel in charge of intelligence collection, data collation, negotiation, and acquisition, and Yang Yun is very relieved.

Yang Yun waited patiently in the capital for three days and picked up Alexey at the airport.

It can be seen that Alexei is very anxious, and the first thing he said after meeting was: "When are we leaving?" ”

Yang Yun smiled: "Don't worry, we have contacted a key gentleman, he will take us away, if it weren't for him, maybe we wouldn't even be able to pass the Chinese border station." ”

The political situation in the Soviet Union was very chaotic, the current government was crumbling, but it had been holding on, and Alexey's fear of restricting entry and exit was true, but with the help of the local snake to lead the way, everything was much safer.

In 1989, the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse, the economy of all industries in the country was close to collapse, light industry was almost non-existent, and heavy industry had no money to develop.

In 1989 and 1990, the pioneers who went to the Soviet Union in advance to grab resources basically made a fortune, and at that time there was no need to go out to find it themselves.

In 1991, the situation has changed greatly, the industrial system has been fragmented, there are few enterprises that can still hold on, the country is in chaos, it is very difficult to buy good things, one is to find no one, the other is basically good things have been robbed in advance, in 1991 to go to the late group of people, basically all of them are empty, or little harvest.

The key gentleman Yang Yun is looking for is a secret soldier of the public security department, to be precise, a special person who shuttles between China and the Soviet Union all the year round, and he is very clear about the situation in the Soviet Union.

Before leaving, Alexei and Yang Yun met with Mr. Key, and the three of them met in Donglaishun, and the good wine and food were served on a big table, and Yang Yun introduced: "This is Mr. Cheng Long, but not Hollywood's Jackie-Chan!" ”

Cheng Long smiled casually: "Just call me Brother Long." ”

Alexei thought for a long time, and then held back a sentence: "Hello Mr. Long." ”

Brother Long spoke fluently to Alexei, and the two became more and more close to each other as they spoke, but the wrinkles on their foreheads grew deeper and deeper.

After a long time, the two stopped talking, and Brother Long said to Yang Yun: "Xiao Yang, this friend of yours has a bit of a difficult request. His hometown is in a remote town in Brooklyn, and his immediate family and several close relatives are not in the same area, spanning two large provinces, and the Brooklyn area is the border between Ukraine and Russia, which is very confusing, and I think it is very difficult to find. ”

Yang Yun nodded: "Brother Long, the main purpose of going to the Soviet Union this time is for Alexey's parents and relatives. As long as you ensure our personal safety, you will not hesitate to spend a little more. As for my investigation of the game industry company, you arranged for someone to lead the way, leaving me in Moscow to inquire by myself, and we will divide the army! ”

That's what Alexey meant.

To find his parents, the danger is too great, and it is enough for him to bring Cheng Long as a helper.

No matter how chaotic it is, there will never be a battle in Moscow, right? Yang Yun stayed in Moscow to inquire about the news, and the security was much better.

After drinking Zhuangxing wine, the three dressed up as ordinary businessmen, tossed and turned to the border, boarded a train transporting light industrial supplies, and smoothly crossed the Eurasian continent and headed for Moscow.

On the train, the three of them rented a private room at a high price, Brother Long stood outside the door to sentry, Yang Yun and Alexei were worried in a daze, and in order to pass the time, the two chatted.

"Alexey, how is KTT developing? Mario & Tetris, is Nintendo completely hollowing you out? ”

Alexei shook his head: "Yang, I have to say that your vision is really very unique, Mario and Tetris are both very popular games, GameBoy now has these two popular games, plus more than 50 new games that have been rapidly added after the opening of the GB development package, and I can still see an increase in sales under the pressure of GameGear, I think it is very rare." ”

Yang Yun laughed and said, "Alexey, let's talk about KTT itself." You've worked with EA on games before, are you still working on them? ”

"Yes, we are working on Populous2, a real-time strategy game, which is mainly coded in collaboration with BullFrog Studios, and the game is ready to be published by EA."

Alexei was visibly absent-minded and introduced all this in an understatement tone.

This......

Bullfrog Studio also came out, and it also cooperated with KTT to co-code ......

Looking at Alexey's listless appearance, Yang Yun opened his mouth and said nothing.

He now especially hopes that this trip will go all the way, he hurriedly acquired 1C Company in Moscow, Alexei and Brother Long quickly find his family, and then find a way to return to China, fly away, and get out of this country full of danger, chaos, and war is very likely to break out!

Distinctive's Need for Speed, BullFrog's Theme Hospital and Dungeon Guardian, Yang Yun drooled at the thought of these two names, and he couldn't wait! (To be continued......)