Early Animation Footage Of Eight Days

GameXtract writes "Eight Days was an action title being developed by Sony Computer Entertainment of London exclusively for the Playstation 3. Unfortunately the title was canceled by Sony in order for other projects to place. It's quite a shame to see it go after watching the tech demo shown at E3 in 2005. At least its not ALL gone yet. Little bits of content are still emerging, but mostly just small tech demos, and early footage. The video we have for you today shows off the animation of the characters that was being implemented. I have to admit that the animations are fluid, and up to date with what we see in our video games of today, but it can get repetitive at times. Overall I'm missing this title as the tech demo at E3 2005 had me on edge. Catch the video after the jump!"

Video after the jump!

[NO_PUDding]

Will post here too.

Holy Sheet.

Gears and Uncharted are dwarfed. Why Sony? What the hell is wrong with your minds?

I guess atleast we know when it will be inevitably released we'll have a great game.

That tech will ahve cost money, and it shan't go to waste.

Sony have the most capable and impressive 1st Party ever.

[Overr8ed]

i wouldnt be surprised if Sony brings this title back to 'life'

[DevilVergilX]

Eye Pet was benefited with this cancellation? A shame... I would have bought THIS instead of eyepet...

[NO_PUDding]

They said that it wasn't viable at the moment, I am sure it will eb broguht back into motion.

EightDays>Gears/Uncharted

Colour me shocked.

[Michael Jackson]

That footage made me sad.. Please come back.. :(

Maybe we can have an online petition for this?

[Winter47th]

What a waste, it actually could'a been something.

[VF34EJ25]

yeah too bad it's completely cancelled

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/20...

I just hope Sony puts more of that budget into God of War 3.

[xhi4]

that has to be the hottest cover gameplay I've ever seen, the most detailed character i've ever seen, and the most natural movement i've ever seen. No wonder those guys said Eight Days was unbe-fricken-lievable!

I geuss Sony has their 10 year life cycle plan and need to keep the postponed games like The Getaway 3 and Eight Days for later in the PS3's life cycle instead of just shoving out all the games in 2009 like KZ2, Ico's new game, Heavy Rain, God of War 3, Insomniacs new game to name a few but save some for 2010,2011,2012 and 2013 etc.

but hell that was one mad video, imagine what all the other unannounced PS3 first party games will be like. It feels so good to own a PS3!

EDIT

@Bubbles

Yeah I agree with you there. But the difference between the PS2 and the PS3 is that we had to wait for the END of the PS2's lifecycle to see jaw-dropping games like God of War 1/2 and GTA, but with the PS3 in it's second year (first year was hopeless) and beyond we have jaw-dropping ass-flopping ball-crunching games like Uncharted, Resistance 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Killzone 2, God of War 3, Little Big Planet and the like.

It's a great feeling to own a PS3 right now!

[UnSelf]

remember how GT4 and God of war made our jaws drop at the end of the ps2's lifespan?

expect a similar transition in the ps3's wit this title and more

[jwatt]

Wow Sony better bring Eightdays back the animations look amazing. I was thinking they may start back up production of the game at a later date but after seeing that Sony definitely needs to start back up again.

[El_Colombiano]

Wow. I'm loving the Uncharted esque cover system. Man the animation is great. Transitions from cover to cover are better and more varied than Uncharted's. Looks like they are building on Uncharted's cover system.

Man I can't wait until this game's development picks up again!

[Vojkan]

It wont it was canned.

Jim Jagger:"Eight Days was a coop based third person shooter that was set to be released in the summer of 2009. Unfortunately Sony cancelled the game in the summer of 2008 and with it went two and a half years of my work.

Here is a quick capture from the Eight Days Animation Test Level, showing the basic navigation of the main character, followed by the original 2006 E3 trailer. As Animation Director, it was my responsibility to design and implement the animation tools and pipeline with the goal of creating a fluid, yet responsive, animation system."

[techie]

WOw - beaten by GameExtract themselves. Well done. Shame you won't get any hits by embedding the video. Sucker.

[El_Colombiano]

LMFAO they took the video off.

[techie]

Haha hilarious. Nutters.

[alan001]

that was gr8, i hope the put it back in develpment

[whothedog]

They better not have ******* canned this game.

I Wonder if they are releasing the videos to see if people are still interested in this game, WELL I KNOW I AM.

[xhi4]

they haven't canceled it, they just have stopped development so the teams can focus on some other game they're working on, the same goes for The Getaway 3.

Expect these games to come out after the team has completed and released the game Yoshida thinks is the most important. Yoshida is a champion, his past precedes him and I have total faith in his judgement, hell he worked with Team Ico for a while he HAS to be good.

[whothedog]

phew thanks for letting me know that, I would of been upset because both games have potential to be great games.

[avacadosnorkel]

but who knows how hard it would have been to actually get your guy to do that sh1t

[NO_PUDding]

GREAT.. GREAT Point....

Bubbles and agree.

[Sevir04]

in all honesty i dont know why sony put this game on hold. it would have been awesome the animation system gives uncharted a run for it's money in ingame character movements and the transistion from cover to cover to slide to crawl back to cover is just spot on.

i shed tears of dismay because this game could have been out next year.

[Homicide]

That looks so freaking awesome. I'm very impressed by the animation/cover system. I hope they continue to make the game. The E3 06 trailer was incredible. Stupid eyepet.

[jwatt]

Yea I thought Eyepet was cute now I can't stand it.

[SuperM]

Tbh i dont think Eight Days got cancelled because of Eyepet. Eyepet may have benefited from it but i believe people were mainly relocated to work at Home. Because sony has alot of pressure on them to release it on time. If it gets delayed beyond 2008 then they would lose alot of credibility. When Home is finished they might just start working on eight days again, if we are lucky :)

[j-seb]

If they don't restart development of this game, I hope Uncharted's sequel will use some of these animation ideas, such as moving smoothly and continuously around a wall, sliding/diving into cover and the almost prone position you can get into depending on the size of the cover (with that last point, enemies in Killzone 2 already do this as you shoot away their cover). I hope this game gets restarted, but this tech demo has actually made me more psyched for Uncharted 2!

and the guy could actually sprint!!

[juuken]

Sony should be strangled for canceling this game. >.<
I just hope they bring it back someday.

[militant07]

to be honest the gameplay sucks.
they did well to cancel it and make better games idk what they replaced it for but its better !

[DavidMacDougall]

Your a known bot nobody cares what you think being that you are biased

EDIT @DA_SHREDDER

LOL yeah i said that once turns out he is like 10 (Someone told me) well he owns an xbox he would have to be

[juuken]

...militant, I didn't know you worked for Sony and played the game already.

That's new to me...considering that was a really stupid comment.

[militant07]

gameplay video ?!

[juuken]

Uh...that doesn't count if the game wasn't even finished to begin with? :/

[militant07]

btw juuken your the only ps3 fan that can speak with because sometimes you speak trouth

[HeartlesskizZ]

I guess im the only one that played KillSwitch

[Rick Astley]

That's what I said when everyone else said Gears of War invented the 3rd person cover system. Either way this looks better than Gears of War, Kill.Switch, and Uncharted. Maybe Naughty Dog will be able to pull this off with Uncharted 2.

[LastDance]

oi..oi...oi......oi mate........Operation WINBACK

hahaha!

[VMAN_01]

I think they will bring this back into development Sony have alot on there plates at the moment and I am sure they will bring this title back to life soon.

[Cyrus365]

Just cause the game is cancelled doesn't mean the tech can't be implemented in future titles, Ie Uncharted 2, or some other Sony First party or 2nd party dev.

You can bet that they'll share tools, and tech they have developed on this project and Getaway too.

[SRuN4]

Like I said on the other posts, they canned this for EyePet?

They let a potentially great first party game get canned for EyePet, something that will ultimately fail like the rest of the EyeToy products. And these are the types of decisions that put you in third place.

Plus, it was a year out. If they put up with it for 2.5 years, don't you think they could of bit the bullet and waited one more year? It could of been a genre making title and could of brought online coop games to the forefront. Oh well their lose, maybe if there is enough outcry they'll rethink the decision but I doubt it.

[Harry190]

Eyepet was NOT the reason 8 Days was canned/shelved. It only BENEFITED from it, which means that they now have more resources free to work on Eyepet than before. Both games were at the same stage of pre-production when they decided to cancel 8 days. It could well have been Eye[et which could have been canceled, but it was not, since it obviously represented something Sony was willing to invest into to generate potential rewards with a relatively higher profit margin due to a wider audience, lower production cost and media attention. Tell me why Wii Fit is still mentioned in every health or lifestyle magazine out there without the need for Nintendo to spend a single dollar? Because it's different.

For all we know, 8Days probably had problems we have not heard about yet that were quite critical at this stage. It simply did not pass the selection test because the team's presentation was flawed. Not Eyepet's fault. But what more can I say? People NEED to put the blame on someone or something and it turns out Eyepet is the perfect scapegoat.

[SRuN4]

"I think the official comment was that the London studio decided to shift its focus from 'hard core' games to 'lifestyle' games and that Eight Days did not fit into the budget for the next financial year.

To be honest, it would have been easier to accept it's cancellation if the game wasn't very good."

That's a comment to the video from the lead animator, anyway you slice it they are no longer developing hardcore games at the London Studio. It was one year away from it's scheduled release, it couldn't of been that horrible if it made it that far. That'd be like if they came out this past February and said, "Killzone 2 is no longer in production."

Sure the tech they developed is gonna be shared but why go through all of that hardwork for one game and then not even push it out the door? At that point, isn't the game due it's time in the spotlight even if it's not that great?

And please point me to something that used the EyeToy and actually became a success? Cause I can't think of one thing that acutally made an impact and it's been out for years now. Sorry but if nothing great has come of it yet, I doubt EyePet is really going to change that.

[VMAN_01]

Its not canceled Yoshida just stated that development had been stopped so that they can concentrate on titles like Hardware 2.

[SRuN4]

On the lead animators youtube account, where the video comes from, he says it was cancelled and they were basically told London Studios were now concentrating on social/casual games from here on out.

[Old Snake]

GOd dayum I was pissed when they canceled this and now I'm even more so. That looked f**king awesome. Why don't other games look like that?

[gdguide]

As kiddy and as gay looking EyePet is, if they market it enough to little kids, EyePet could sell a crapload. Have you guys seen the trailer? That could easily be the next Nintendogs for sure.

[SRuN4]

Do you really think parents are gonna shell out for the eyetoy, eyepet and ps3? Sorry but that's a pretty big investment to become mainstream and casual.

[jwatt]

Eye pet looks very good for the casual but they shouldn't of cancelled Eightdays. I bet if we do a petition for this it would be the most sign out of all the other petitions.

[DA_SHREDDER]

Said the guy with the gay little avatar. Anyways, If I remember correctly, this game was a single player only game. I think Sony would be smart to take the tech from this game, and incorporate it in a game like MAG or just make a new IP with the same cover system. This is the first time I ever seen a Third person shooter that actually looked cool. Everything just runs so flawlessly. I know Sony is not dumb and they will more then likely build take what they got from this game and make something even bigger then a what this game was originally was planned too be.

[Harry190]

It's not gay(not in the 'happy' sense), it's from Trusty Bell. It's cool,only the picture, not the individual hiding behind it.

But what I can't understand is how someone can dare form an uneducated opinion based on not even actual gameplay footage. It is frankly very unintelligent and shows a lack of common sense.

[play_b3yond]

They shouldn't have canceled it. Uncharted was a single player game too but it sold about 2 million copies and is one of the best third person shoter games this generation. I actully don't think they have canceled the game. Sony just wants to keep this game and Gateway as a backup. They already have lots of AAA exclusives coming next year so there is no reason to have these two games released in 2009 as well. I am sure Sometime in 2009 Sony will announce that these two games are back on track and will be released in 2010.

[xaviertooth]

agreed play_beyond. right now the code for this kind of animation might be shared across all sony studios. imagine how ps3 games will look like in the coming months.

@militant: what's the envy? have u played it already to call the gameplay sucks? you are a typical sh*tbox tard!

[stuntman_mike]

good animation its a shame they canceled it i'm not a big fan of these so called "casual games", they don't last 5 mins i would rather have eight days than eyepet.

hope they restart development again a few years down the line.

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Im sure SCE will bring it back one day.Maybe in like 2010-2011.It'll be a nice surprise when it does! This game was looking pretty badass.But atleast there's plenty of other AAA games coming!

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

This video demonstration reminds me of Bad Boys 2 I just hope Sony secured the IP (Intellectual Property) for later on. I also wanted to see the Gateaway 3 for the PlayStation 3 because Grand Theft Auto only used 8.54GB. The Getaway would have used 50GB or something very close to it.

[Killjoy3000]

Looked as good if not better than Uncharted.

[VMAN_01]

Imagine the intense fire fights with a cover system like that.

[Stryfeno2]

This is the first title that made me think of purchasing a PS3...Sony cancelled it and I cancelled that thought.

[Harry190]

you just comment on a console you never owned and still act like you do?
Not cool, not cool at all.

[VMAN_01]

I think they will near the end of the PS3 life cycle to truly show off the power of the PS3.

[Bathyj]

Finally, game that lets you move around the outside of a corner while still sticking to cover. I've only been wanting that forever.

[Kaneda]

Sony cancelled games better looking than any xbox 360 released games...

[ELite_Ghost]

it's not that hard to do.

[Adamalicious]

How can that guy slide along a wall and turn corners while doing a wall press like that?? He must do Pilates.

[DA_SHREDDER]

Sony has not even started to put out games that have yet to define what next gen really is. I know all you bots think that Gears 2 is the next coming, but honestly Fable 2 is the better game. Im really surprised that you bots haven't praised it as much as your precious GEOW2 . That right there just shows how immature and pathetic you bots really are. You wouldn't know a good game if it slapped you across your face and called you momma.

[kingboy]

That looks really fluid and accurate,lets just pray Sony one day resurrects this IP in the near futur

[danielo]

I hope they bring this title back!

[IsThatSo]

looked alright..

[PirateThom]

To be honest, I can see this game being re-announced in late 2009 for 2010 release. There's obviously already a lot of work that has gone into it and I know the same studio who are working on it, London Studio, have Home on their plate, which is why Eye Pet seems to have been thrown in as well, to give them something to do between Home and their next game.

It could just be that the engine is in place and they need a lot more work to be able to translate it to a full game.

Eight Days (and The Getaway) will be back, it's just easier to say cancelled so you don't have to give real reasons.

[dcbronco]

Sony must be crazy to have canceled this. It looks like a John Woo movie come to life. The way he slides over things is amazing. You just add some color and you've got a winner. This will sell........... 1 million copies.

Oh, I've got to go. Stranglehold is on sell for 5 bucks.

[WINZLOW]

use 8days as a punch line towards other console fanatics saying that theyre cancelled games look better than what others offer. LOL nah thats weak lets start with something else LMFAO.

[LinuxGuru]

They just need to work on some better transition animations and it would have been perfect.

[dj_funky]

reminds me of uncharted's cover system.

[cloud 279]

I believe this game was going to require a big budget and to show off in the early stages would make them probably loose interest in the minds of gamers, if the game didn't arrive, so instead announcing the game, they decided to cancel the game, so people would stop talking about the game. and could make this game in secrecy, i think eyepet was just a cover-up, so casuals could get into this game, and sony would secure money to fund this project, as you currently know, sony is losing money on the ps3 and ps2 is only going to be profitable for so long, so they have to look at getting products out that are easier to make and would bring in finance so other big games can be financed.

This is my opinion only.