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Never Knew Got Cancelled
#10 Mega Man Universe Developed by Capcom for the Xbox live arcade
and Playstation Network the game would have allowed players to create and customize their
own levels and characters.
A lot of the structure for the game was based on Mega Man 2 and began production in March
of 2010.
It essentially was Mario Maker before Mario Maker.
This at first was an exciting concept for fans of the series, especially with the recent
success of their other downloadable releases Mega Man 9 and 10.
Although all thanks to some early previews for the game we never actually got to see
this creation come to life.
The first reviews for the preview remarked at how unremarkable the art style was and
how even more unresponsive the controls were for it.
This combined with the Mega Man creator leaving Capcom in 2010 all spelled terrible news for
the games completion.
They did there best to say that everything was fine, but by 2011 the team finally called
it quits and not too many people even remember.
#9 Star Fox 2 This action game co-developed by Nintendo
and Argonaut Software was intended to be the sequel of the first Star Fox meant for the
SNES.
Much like the first game, Star Fox 2 was trying to push the boundaries of what was possible
for graphical capabilities at the time.
Initially the plan was to release the game in 1995, but due to some growing concerns
over its primitive 16 bit 3D visuals the game was cancelled by Nintendo.
It really was just poor timing because as they were trying to do the best with what
they had, other competitors were already ten steps ahead.
Video games had been moving from 16-bit to 32-bit hardware and Nintendo just feared that
their product wasnt going to measure up whatsoever.
The really sad part about this forgotten game is that the game was actually complete when
they pulled the plug.
Then to add salt to their wounds Nintendo essentially used all of the code from that
game to produce Star Fox 64 without paying Argonaut a single penny.
#8 StarCraft Ghost This unreleased game was a military science
fiction stealth-action video game that was previously being developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
In the game you would play as this sort of psychic spy named Nova in the years following
the Starcraft Brood War expansion.
It was their attempt at trying to find a way to create games that revolved around a connected
universe.
However thanks to many delays in its development and Nihilistic Software passing everything
over to Swingin Ape Studios the game never got to see the light of day.
Blizzard was mainly holding onto this project because they wanted to do their research first
into what the seventh generation of video game consoles would bring to the table.
Although come 2014, a full 12 years since its announcement the Blizzard CEO confirmed
that the project was dead.
#7 Rainbow Six Patriots This cancelled first person shooter was part
of the Tom Clancys Rainbow Six series originally announced back in November of 2011.
In the game Team Rainbow is brought to New York City to fight off a new terrorist group
called the True Patriots.
This militia group had decided to act as the judge, jury and executioner for the victims
of what they saw as Wall Street corruption.
The game got off to a rocky start when Ubisoft had discovered that someone may have leaked
their gameplay footage.
Trying to get one step ahead of it they chose to pre-maturely release a trailer for the
game.
The trailer though was only able to show their pre-rendered concept that was created the
previous year, so it really only showed off what the game could look like rather than
actual footage.
Then come 2012 everything started to fall apart.
Their creative director, their narrative director, the lead designer and their animation director
were all removed from the development team.
In May of 2013 there had been little to no updates on the games progress until it was
announced that GameStop had removed Patriots from their database and cancelled all pre-orders.
While this game may have been scrapped though they did use much of it for what would become
Rainbow Six Siege.
#6 Thrill Kill This unreleased title was a 1998 fighting
game intended for the Sony Playstation.
Its prime selling point was that you would be able to fight with 4 players simultaneously.
However much of the games positive notes were quickly overshadowed by the looming controversy
around its intense violence and sexual content.
Game mechanics such as limb dismemberment and crudely named special attacks then became
the focus of every critic out there.
In fact it was so gruesome that the ESRB rated it AO which stands for an Adult Only rating.
In comes gaming giant EA though who bought up a bunch of titles and wasted no time in
killing the project stating that it was senselessly violent.
Later on in 2004 the Official US Playstation Magazine also took shots at the game naming
it one of the most overrated cancelled games.
The best quote by far in that article was when they said - It got lots of hype, but
it really sucked too.
Apparently it couldnt have sucked that much because the Thrill Kill engine was used in
a number of other games following theres being cancelled.
#5 Star Wars 1313 This cancelled LucasArts video game was originally
announced at E3 in 2012 and was primed to finally tell the story of the beloved Star
Wars character Boba Fett.
It would have followed the characters career as a young bounty hunter in the middle of
the prequel and original trilogies.
In 2013 though Disney had acquired the entire franchise which then put any current video
game projects on hold for the moment.
In a statement LucasFilms said that they needed to minimize any risks to the company while
trying to achieve a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games.
Which for fans was a moment where you just wanted to shake them while screaming WHYYY.
This really did seem like a quality star wars game, but the chances of it actually happening
were effectively zero.
#4 B.C.
This action adventure video game was in development by Intrepid computer entertainment and was
to be published for the Xbox.
At the time it was considered to be a pretty impressive game with an AI unlike anything
at the time.
It was a game with human like simians living alongside dinosaurs while a real working food
chain worked in the immersive environment.
It was a masterpiece of a game left in the dark due to its ambition.
In fact a former development team member named Joe Rider had said that the game was actually
75 percent complete when all work came to a screeching halt.
Intrepids parent company Lionhead had not been sharing their proprietary technology
with them and instead was more focused on developing the game Fable.
In a closing statement by its designer Peter Molyneux he said - The decision to suspend
work on any games project is always a very difficult one, particularly when it is a title
with the potential of BC.
#3 Fable Legends Speaking of Fables, Fable Legends was another
cancelled game that not too many people will remember.
It was a co-op action rpg developed by Lionhead Studios and intended for the Xbox One.
It was based around four heroes and a villain with each role being filled through its online
multiplayer setting or alternatively by an AI.
Thanks to frequent delays, media blackouts and overall secrecy surrounding the title
it was shut down in the early beta stage.
We didnt just lose Fable Legends though in this game cancellation.
In March of 2016 Microsoft announced that the game would be cancelled alongside the
closure of their Lionhead Studios.
The following month the games beta was taken down and all customers were issued a full
refund for any in-game purchases they had made.
#2 Prey 2 Planned as the sequel to their 2006 release
of Prey this cancelled first-person shooter was published by Bethesda Softworks.
Its narrative was tied to the first game where an alien spacecraft called the sphere appears
over the southwestern part of the US and starts abducting humans.
Although in October of 2014 Bethesda cancelled the project saying - It was a game we believed
in, but we never felt that it got to where it needed to be, we never saw a path to success
if we finished it.
It wasnt up to our quality standard, and we decided to cancel it.
#1 Titan This title was actually just the project name
for a cancelled Blizzard Entertainment massive online multiplayer game.
It was a class-based shooter game where players would have selected a character from different
classes that granted them specific abilities as they progressed.
The mix of the skill tree aspect though and overpowered combinations made the game feel
cluttered and confusing.
After some internal staff shuffling at Blizzard they decided to cancel the project in May
of 2013.
However this did not come without consequences.
Blizzard stood to lose 50 million dollars according to their CEO.
Although thanks to a core team of 40 people they were able to salvage some of Titans prototypes
to create the uber popular game we know today as Overwatch.
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