If the Pirates of the Caribbean movies taught us anything, it's that not all buccaneers are ruthless cutthroats and villains. Some of them are rebellious cockerney geezers, others are heartbroken old men with tentacles growing on their chin.
In this open world RPG, you choose the destiny of rookie swashbuckler Captain James Sterling.It doesn't start well, as he's drowned by an evil Spanish admiral called Aldonado. But as we know from the increasingly weird and incomprehensible films, no one ever really dies in the Pirates universe.
Jerry from BagoGames says, "Disney has been striking out when it comes to video game development. Armada Of the Damned is yet another sad tale of an amazing game we will never play."
Developing a game is an intricate process. Thousands of lines of code have to be written with thousands of graphical assets. The publishers have to spend thousands of dollars on marketing. Speaking on the behalf of the developers, it hurts us beyond measure when we don't get to witness the fruit of our labour.
Here are The Gaming Report's top 5 games that did not see the light of day.
An investigative look into what happened to Disney's open world Pirates of the Caribbean game.
This would of been good, this is what Ubisoft should of done with all the Pirate stuff in AC4, instead of Black Flags fill in the gap Armada of the Damned left. Least then they wouldn't be restricted with the Assassins Creed story.
I remember seeing this game at E3 and getting so excited. I was completely bummed when it got canned.
edit: btw... great read! Hats off to Tyler, I hope you put forward more pieces like this.
It's EXTREMELY rare to read well-written articles on this site. Job well done, sir!
This game reminds me of Fable II, which I loved, so I will be checking it out for sure!