One of my uni mates is working at Rare at the moment. I'll be honest, from what he says, this does sound very like the developers over there 
Are they still even the same developers that worked on such N64 games? :S
Couple left I believe, not many though D: Most have splintered off and made their own companies by now.
I got contacted by Rare once ages ago when they found my CV online for some games testing position too lol
lol, what did they say?
I got totally blanked by them when I sent them an application 
. Mind you I had to do it for uni work so tight butthole I put very little effort in ;_;
I think they phoned me first, can't really remember, but was a really ?!?!?! moment haha. I think they were just out looking for testers or something and said that they found my CV online and asked if it'd be possible for me to work there and if so they'd ask me some questions over the phone, so I told them it may be and they gave me some time to think about it/talk with my mum (who lives near them), as I was currently living with my dad (who lives hours away). So I talked with my mum and living with her for the job and so on and cycling to get there or something (apparently the only way into rare is by a road, no walking or anything :S) and decided to go for it. But at that time I was currently working or set up with work which paid about 7~8 pounds an hour compared to the ~5 pounds an hour that rare was going to pay if I got the job and I was planning on coming to Japan before starting uni in the UK for a few months after some months of work anyway, but I thought I might as well go for it anyway, as it sounded like an awesome chance, but of course I'd also heard all sorts about game testing and how crap it is though lol. But anyway, I phoned them back and told them about everything and they seemed pretty concerned about me cycling there, especially in winter etc lol and I was just planning on phoning them back to let them know it was possible for me, but then they went straight onto some phone interview thing which I was in no way prepared for, so that caught me off guard and I'm pretty sure I messed that up quite badly and that was the end of rare
haha
But I didn't really care all that much, as my current focus was on getting to Japan and I did have a quite a bit better paying job and with going to Japan then uni soon afterwards anyway it actually did seem like a hell of a lot, moving then cycling quite a bit into some weird place where rare's head quarters or whatever are, just for less pay and going through the hell game testers apparently do to then quit soon after >_<
It was just amazing to me that they contacted me in the first place O_o
I have absolutely no idea why on earth they thought to contact me from whatever resume of mine they found at that time online lol
