9. B.C.
Ah, Peter Molyneux, the master of getting us hyped up with awesome looking games that are basically catastrophic disappointments. We’ve learned not to take him at his word too often these days, but we were admittedly drawn in by the sheer scale and ambition of B.C., which would have players controlling tribes of cavemen in an action-adventure setting, helping them to evolve and create settlements whose dispositions depend on the cave-people you breed. What seemed most impressive was the chain reaction of your actions; for example, it would have been possible for tribesmen to affect the food chain if they killed enough animals, which could in turn have had dire consequences if left unchecked. However, in 2004, despite releasing some very promising footage, Molyneux summarily halted production on the title, deeming it too ambitious to meet his standards.
Well, how about devising a workable concept before moving the damn thing into production, then? You’ve probably cost people some work, damnit. Not to mention found another reason to regard you as the most overrated video game mogul of all time. Okay, rant over.
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Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury. Written by DC Fontana and featuring the original cast and some pretty nifty graphics, it would’ve been amazing. Even now, it could still work as an animated feature.
They cancelled a new Getaway for PS3, I thought it would have been great. Although it would have been in GTA’s shadow – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9cqeYSJo9w
This Is Vegas
have you heard of frame city killer
As for Road Rash, I can see a new game in the future. Need for Speed: Most Wanted (by Criterion) has had a big make over, as most games before it just didn’t look right graphically and the gameplay was sloppy. I can see Criterion doing a top job of a new Road Rash, not forgetting Burnout Paradise was an ace game with bikes (added with the Ultimate Box). Putting bikes in Most Wanted would of been cool.
Man when I saw that I was thinking of Burnout also. It would be awesome to see a new Roadrash
Sex, drugs and rock n roll. Maybe by sensible software back in the mid 90s looked like so fun. Unfortunately its controversal content for the day got it canned. Would have looked to have played it!
I was really looking forward to a pc game a few years ago called Babylon 5:Into The Fire. It was a space shooter that used the different ships of the various alien races from the tv show and I believe it had some rts elements in it as well.
Do we really need to ask why something like Thrill Kill was cancelled…It’s pretty obvious
The number one should have been Starcraft Ghost
I So wanted to play that game it looked amazing
Can we talk about how sexual the still frame for the Thrill Kill video looks?
Battlefront 3 !!!!!
Star Wars Battlefront 3
Highlander
Starcraft Ghost
You missed out Killing Day! That was the biggest game to get cancelled, ever
Oh, and Possession
Good article though not sure Thrill Kill was any great loss, what about The Outsider that looked a great game
Project Offset would compete with Skyrim for best RPG game ever…