PushSquare: "Every once in a while a franchise comes along that you love in spite of its gameplay. The Getaway is one of those franchises. Its early incarnations are near unplayable due to shoddy controls and poor level design, but they are still amongst some of our favourite games on PlayStation."
Mike Harradence of PSU.com writes:
"Now that PlayStation 4 has been blown wide open (well, sort of –we still don’t know what the box looks like), it’s got us thinking about the myriad of games that we’d love to see on the platform. While there’s the usual suspects floating around in our wish list, such as Uncharted, God of War, Resident Evil, The Last Guardian, and Assassin’s Creed etc. we’ve also cast our thoughts over some of the PS3 titles that sadly never saw the light of day.
"Wouldn’t it be pucker if these lost gems could receive new life on Sony’s high-powered next-generation machine?"
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Dam has it been that long since we've seen eight days? Ps3 launch and now the ps4, I'm doubting that game might ever come out, shame they shelved it because it looked to be a big seller
If a Game like shadows of the colosus would be released..
than an automaticly BUY for PS4
Agent? I know that hasn't been cancelled, or spoken of for a while.. Hope they can shed some light on it soon.
I remember hearing that The Getaway is just put on hold while focusing on other projects but it seems like it won't come out at this point it's a shame a lot of people were looking forward to it. Also what about Agent, Heat, and inSANE I hope those games happen!
Getaway and Eight Days were canned for EYETOY, EYEPET AND SINGSTAR!! STILL winds me up to this day!!!
OPM: Merry Christmas! The special festive edition of the Official PlayStation Magazine Podcast sees editor Ben Wilson and the team looking back on the highs and lows of 2012, as well as revealing your choice for game of the year and what they most want for Christmas. Elsewhere there’s new info on issue 79 cover game Bioshock Infinite, plus the team’s thoughts on The Phantom Pain, Dark Souls 2, The Getaway 3 (!) and much more.
2005, it was put on "hold" along with eight days, this is the first its been mentioned in years
There's all sorts of reasons games get scrapped, beyond just being 'not very good'. Developers can run out of money, take too long, or screw up their work so badly it's easier to walk away than fix it.
And sometimes you just get screwed over by the Soviets, as happened in the late '80s, when Atari manufactured 500,000 copies of Tetris, believing it owned the rights, but it turned out they'd been snatched from under its nose by arch rival Nintendo. The rest is history.
We should be careful what we wish for, of course – just ask anyone that bought Duke Nukem Forever, an embarrassing travesty exhumed from gaming's graveyard last year.
But if we had the money, power and influence, here's ten titles we'd love to have played.
For me there is only one game that comes to mind. A game that if it weren't cancelled, and the creator's of the series cared enough about it to actually put in some effort, could have had the potential to be mind blowingly stunning.
Monster Hunter 3.
Thanks Capcom.
With the RARE step forward Monster Hunter has ever taken, Capcom pushes it down a flight of stairs. So much wasted potential. Potential easily reached too since it's the rare game where all it needs is graphics. Graphics are the easy part for a developer. It's core gameplay should never be touched since it's been flawless since the start.
I wish *I* had the rights to the Monster Hunter franchise.....and not Capcom.
Every time I see that shoot out footage... I hurt inside.... it could have been spectacular.
Shenmue 3 . . .
We did get Deadly Premonition though. Sort of scratched that action-adventure itch.
The idea of a Shenmue 3 technically isn't dead, most people know it's just damn unlikely.
Deadly Premonition was garbage and not even close to Shenmue. The only Shenmue substitute around right now are the Yakuza games.
Shenmue 3 will forever stay at the top of the list until it's released.
Also Shenmue Online, that could of been cool ;)
My two games were True Fantasy Live Online and BC for the original Xbox. Those games sounded amazing.
That would be one shock if the announce and show that
same with eight days and eyeidentify
No, foo'. That would be the return of Syphon Filter.
Oh hell yeah the getaway was awesome back in the day, and that pic is oooold I remember it from like 6 years ago.
According to Gamesradar Syphon Filter 4 does exist. This would be nice as well.