Sources tell Kotaku that Disney's upcoming action role-playing game Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned has been canned and that the studio behind the game are laying folks off today.
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.
Thank you! This is what gaming journalism should aspire to! Investigative reporting, well written prose, thought provoking articles, and no inflammatory headlines or claims.
It's EXTREMELY rare to read well-written articles on this site. Job well done, sir!
You should consider investigating in alot of cancelled titles, make it a series of articles.
Turok 2 was another title I anticipated, because when was the last time we've had a dinosaur game since ever?
It's clear these types of pieces are popular. I'll start working on another one as soon as possible. I have lots of ideas.
I really wanted to play this game..
Ouch!
I hope this rumor is false. I thought the game looked & sounded cool. So I hope this turns out not true.
Well this has been done before they hire a lot of people to work on certain parts of the game then once the game get closer to completion they lay off the people they don't need. Some places have 25 member teams then get to 100 and lay off people once they are done with the job.
The game was showing at E3 (albeit video only) and looked pretty good shame if this is true.