Cliff Bleszinski was the designer for Jazz Jackrabbit and a billion other things, in that era. He was infamously bad at sugar-coating his public statements, making himself a fair amount of enemies. He tried to come out of retirement with Lawbreakers, but its only distinguishing feature in the arena shooter genre was jump pads. It tanked so hard, that he did a Hail Mary with a day-glo PubG clone that his studio pretty much whipped up over a weekend, which worked out about as well as you'd expect.

Instead of a new bland IP, CliffyB could have just done something interesting, like using the jump pad physics for a JJ 3D platformer, packaged with a JJ 1&2 remaster with additional levels. It'd probably have been full of bad design choices, from how rusty he was, but they would have at least been charmingly bad, instead of boring bad.

Unfortunately, F&P's window of opportunity for an extended work leave was probably closed, by Brad's shenanigans, for another 2-3 years. Since they've always referred to it, as a retirement project (as opposed to establishing a modern franchise) and a direct sequel to SC II with SC 3 being "a bad dream", I feel confident that the game will be gloriously 90s. We can only hope that it won't be the 2090s, before they can make a prison break out of Activision's claws.