Volition brainstormed ideas for a new project, and decided to make an open world action-adventure "gang simulator", Saints Row (2006), as the Grand Theft Auto franchise was the only major series in the genre. At THQ's suggestion, Volition made a tie-in game, The Punisher, for the 2004 film of the same name, which sold well. The third games in both of these series were cancelled after sales were lower than expected. It was followed by Red Faction II (2002) and Summoner 2 (2002). ĭescent 4 had been cancelled due to Interplay abandoning the project as Interplay owned the rights to the franchise, Volition reused the assets to make the first person shooter Red Faction (2001). It purchased Outrage Entertainment as well in 2002, which remained a separate studio until its closure the following year. Volition's previous games had been published by Interplay Entertainment, but the contract had expired and Interplay was not interested in publishing a role-playing video game from Volition instead, THQ not only agreed to publish Summoner but bought Volition entirely during its development in 2000.
After it successfully launched, Volition began four separate projects while expanding to around 40 employees the first, FreeSpace 2, was critically acclaimed but had lower sales than its predecessor two other games- Descent 4 and Tube Racer-were cancelled and Summoner (2000), was released as a PlayStation 2 launch title. Outrage went on to develop Descent 3, while Volition moved on to develop the space combat game Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War (1998), growing to around 20 employees during its development. After the release of Descent II (1996), the two founders split the company, with Toshlog moving to Michigan with some of the employees and founding Outrage Entertainment, while Kulas remained in Illinois and renamed the company to Volition. The company grew to eight employees while developing its first game, the first-person spaceship shooter Descent (1995), which was released to widespread acclaim.
It was founded in 1993 by programmers Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog as Parallax Software.
Volition is an American video game developer located in Champaign, Illinois.
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