10 Cancelled Video Games You Won't Believe Were In Development

10. Time Crisis Adventure

You’re at the bowling. You’ve got an overpriced beer, and tried to win a dodgy Spongebob knockoff out of one of those crooked crane games. All that’s left to do is pull the sticky lightgun from its scuffed-to-hell holsters, and play a bit of Time Crisis.

Time Crisis is one of those games that I tend to forget exists, until I see it again and I just have to play it (so I put in a pound coin, get killed in about five minutes, and insist I’m never playing such a rigged game again).

And yet, not once have I thought to myself, “Time Crisis would be ten times better and far less transient an experience... if it was a third-person action adventure”.

Yet, that’s precisely what Darkworks and Namco had intended for it - to release Time Crisis in a more story-focused, adventure format, where the player could really get to know the series’ heroes in a situation other than firing a bright pink handgun at a huge, cracked CRT with the volume turned up way too loud.

The strangest thing, however, is that the game seemed to disappear into obscurity whilst another game - Cold Fear - appeared with a very similar framework to what was initially intended for Time Crisis Adventure. Having found a new publisher in Ubisoft, we can either speculate that the IP wasn’t on the table, or that they just wanted to head in a less established direction.

All I know is, I would’ve loved to have seen an Uncharted-style adventure where my partner would screech “RE-RE-RE-RELOAD!” every few seconds.