It’s no secret that del Toro is a fan of comics and video games, and a video game collaboration has been rumored for some time. Details about inSANE are thin on the ground: there’s no word on a genre, for example, or any story elements. All we have are del Toro’s cryptic words from the press-release, “I want to take players to a place they have never seen before, where every single action makes them question their own senses of morality and reality.”
In this article, we try to list eight cancelled games that looked the most promising. Before we start, if you haven’t already, be sure to read this list over cancelled games, too.
Mega Man Legends 3 is the one cancelled game that sucked the most for me. Blaming it on the fans was a real jerkish move, too.
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Promising? Maybe they sounded good, but, for instance, Redwood Falls and Shadow Realms never saw the light of day because they weren't anything exceptional. The tragic ones are the ones like Star Wars 1313, which was cancelled because of Disney's buyout of Star Wars, or Insane, which was cancelled because THQ was going out of business. I can only guess that Agent, Eight Days, and Starcraft Ghosts never made it anywhere because they didn't live up to expectations. Maybe they weren't any good, maybe they were too ambitious, maybe the tech at the time couldn't support them . . . we simply don't know.
I was once excited for the Pirates of the Caribbean game, Armada of the Damned, but chances are it was cancelled because it wasn't living up to expectations, so there's really no point in being letdown by it.
"The 19th annual D.I.C.E. summit is a little more than a month out. For those who do not know, D.I.C.E. stands for Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain. This annual get together of the technical industry’s elite is host to the Entertainment Software Association’s Interactive Achievement Awards. This year, Hideo Kojima will become the 21st inductee to the A.I.A.S. hall of fame, and deservingly so. The award will be presented to Kojima on February 18, 2016 by none other than iconic director, producer, and writer Guillermo del Toro."-- PlayStation Enthusiast
8CN: Games get canceled all the time, but rarely do we ever hear very much about them. Usually, they're canned well before the public is aware of their existence, with the studios quietly pushing the project under the rug (or recycling the work into new games entirely). These games however, failed pretty spectacularly.
Prey 2 sure looked interesting. The first one gave me motion sickness with the sudden inversions.
The first one's concept sounds amazing! I hope they, or someone gets back to it. The outlook should be different now with the new gen consoles...
I really thought del Toro influenced Castlevania Lords of Shadow. The studio MercurySteam is all Spanish. The concept art and ingame visuals scream Pan's Labrynth. Even the Goat God in the game is named Pan. I loved the game to death and recommend it. It's a must play...9/10
Personally I find it stupid when a film director tries something outside filming.
By the way, Guillermo del Toro is Mexican and has nothing to do with Spanish Mercury Steam, and Pan is a greek mythology god. Nothing especial about that.
"The 2010 Spike TV Awards brought with them plenty of world premiere reveals"
All I saw were teaser trailers that failed to tease, only confirmations to what we already knew. Movies based on games and games based on movies don't really mix well. Hollywood should just leave it alone, they barely do a good job on movies based on novels. I like Del Toro's work so I'll give it a try when it comes out but I'm not holding my breath. Anyone remembers Bram Stoker's Jericho?
who?
likely none.
His films are attempts to recreate the Wizard of Oz without actually recreating it....
And genius for doing so....