Nathan Braudrick of Bagogames: Sometimes great video game ideas just don’t get to see the light of day. For whatever reason, certain games that have fantastic potential become the victim of the axe and consumers like you and I never get to try them out. Every console generation sees its share of cancelled games and our current generation is no exception. There’s not enough time to discuss every single one of them but here is a quick rundown of some current generation games that never made it to retail that I feel could have been promising.
An artist has revealed the concept art from Pandemic Studios' canceled Batman: The Dark Knight game, that was scrapped in 2008.
Came in here thinking it might have been a newer game that I'd be disappointed wasn't getting made. The Batman games have turned out pretty alright since 2008 and onwards (except for Gotham Knights and the Arkham side-scroller one).
Rocksteady killed it (in a good way) with Arkham. Hope they can "kill it" with Suicide Squad but unfortunately, I'm skeptical. Don't mind the fast-paced shooter feeling personally, but their style of gameplay in the Arkham series was just so good I was hoping at one point Suicide Squad would be GTAV-esque where you switched between characters with a more grounded gameplay fighting system. Might still be fun, we'll see.
At this point if rocksteady does not make the batman game I have no faith it will be any good.
Jerry from BagoGames says, "Harker would most likely have been one of the better vampire games out there, sadly it got sidelined for another staple franchise."
Jerry from BagoGames writes, "There are constantly hundreds of games in development but sometimes they just fizzle out and don't get finished. Dirty Harry is one of those lost games."
I remember this. It was a CG target render but still looked fairly like crap. The way he stands up the bar, turns and punches someone looks just terrible, so stiff.
It would have been a good game to give to the team that did The Simpsons Hit and Run and then had just released Scarface The Game.
A Dirty Harry game would only have worked with the total blessing and cooperation of one Clint Eastwood. Had it gotten that, then by gawd that would have been one hell of a retro movie tie in...
As it is, I guess L.A Noire is as close as we're going to get. Time and genre wise that is.
Guillermo del Toro's Sundown is the one that bothers me the most. The man is a visual genius and I think a video game with him on board would be fantastic! At least we have inSane to look forward to.
The people who worked on Batman Begins should have worked on the Dark Knight cause Batman Begins was a solid movie tie in game.
A video game that interested me back in 2005 called "Snow".It was being made by Take 2 and the concept was working your way up as a drug kingpin from a small time dealer.Apparently you could bribe cops,change the amount of drugs you shipped,make deals etc etc.
The only game with a similar concept to it is Grand Theft Auto:Chinatown Wars
A Dirty Harry game wouldve been awesome! Thats really too bad. Also, Escape from NY was scrapped too. Extremely bummed about that one. Namco was going to do it. Now, why the hell did they scrap my game?