The Dreamcast Games That Were Canceled

[wraggster]

http://digg.com/gaming_news/Dreamcast_Games_That_Were_Canceled

Im sure many of you who own or did own a Dreamcast in its Heyday will remember a few of the games that Ron has posted (http://rondreamcast.blogspot.com/2008/10/max-payne-para-dreamcast-otra.html) that never saw the light of day, heres the full translated text inc a video of Max Payne that never arrived on Dreamcast:


With a resounding Release Date: Canceled, Remedy Entertainment, the company's game developer announced the cancellation of one of the most anticipated titles for the Sega Dreamcast by thousands of players.

Max Payne is an action game in the third person 3D environment and developed for the PC by the Finnish company Remedy Entertainment, produced by 3D Realms and published by Gathering of Developers in July 2001. The game also was taken to other platforms such as Xbox, Playstation 2, Game Boy Advance and Macintosh

This game started out in 1998, came to be presented at the E3 of that year, but when I was at an advanced stage of development (bad language say that it was above 60%), along with the announcement of Sega in which surprised both friends and strangers with the discontinuation of its latest console, many of the studies decided not to continue with the marketing of "practically finished" games, as was the case of Propeller Arena, flinstones, Halflife and many others.

With the passage of time and given that many people have done with Katana DevKits (development unit of Sega Dreamcast) in many hard drives, have been found in games development phase and certain securities in an advanced state of the same, some have gone to light and by other ethical issues still filling that space so desired by many.

It is said that the underground networks of the Internet, it is feasible to get a dump of it, but at the moment I have not had the good fortune to see him ever, there are those who say that they have, but my opinion is far from accepting such an assertion.

The same goes with Castlevania, in the Dreamcast sites are always hoping that someday appear, having left all the titles that were canceled, another rooster sing?







List of canceled games for Dreamcast:
(Neither are all that are, or are all those xD)

A
Agartha
Age of Empires / II
Aiken's Artifact see Sanity - Aiken's Artifact
Akolyte
Alien Front Online
Alien Resurrection (Argonaut / Fox Interactive)
Anachronox (Ion Storm)
Aquapanic
Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood
Armada II: Exodus (was going to be able to play online)
Austin Powers: Mojo Rally (Take 2)

B
Baldur's Gate (BioWare / SEGA)
Battle Zone II (Pandemic Studios)
Black & White (Lionhead Studios / Krisalis)
Bikkauiman 2000
bleem! for Dreamcast: bleempak A (bleem!, LLC)
bleem! for Dreamcast: bleempak B (bleem!, LLC)
bleem! for Dreamcast: bleempak C (bleem!, LLC)
bleem! for Dreamcast: bleempak D (bleem!, LLC)
Boarder Zone (Housemarque / Infogrames)
Brave Fire Fighters
Bounty Hunter Sara (Japanese only)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

C
Castlevania see 3D Castlevania: Resurrection
Castlevania: Resurrection (Konami USA)
Chaka: The Forever Man (AndNow)
Chaka Chaka see 2: The Forever Man
Chess 2000
Colin McRae Rally 2.0 (Codemasters)
Combat Flight Simulator see Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
Commandos 2: Men of Courage (Pyro Studios / Eidos)
Croc 2 (Argonaut / Fox Interactive)
Cut Away

D
Dark Angel (the original game is quite different to how it became PS2, was rather 2d style
Dee Dee Planet
D-Jump
Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse (Metro3D)
Dark Earth (Kalisto)
Dee Dee Planet (Dori Dock / SEGA)
Deer Avenger (Hypnotix / Berkeley + Simon & Schuster)
Densha Go! 3: commuting (Taito)
Dogfighting
Dragon Ball
Drake (Surreal Software / GT Interactive Psygnosis +)
DroneZ (Zetha Gamez)
Dynamic Golf
Dynamite Theft (Warashi)

E
Emergency Call Ambulance
ESPN Baseball Tonight
ESPN Golf Links (Microsoft + Konami)
European PGA
Extreme-G X (Acclaim Studios London)

F
F1 Grand Prix 4 see Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 3 - 2000 Season
Far Nation (SEGA)
Farnation see Far Nation
Felony Pursuit see The World's Scariest Police Chase: Deadly Pursuit
Final Fight Revenge (Capcom)
Fortress: The Evolution (Pipe Dream / Majesco)
Frontier (Turbine Entertainment / SEGA)

G
Geist Force (SEGA of America + Netter Digital Entertainment / SEGA)
Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 3 - 2000 Season (Microprose / Hasbro Infogrames +)
Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko (Crystal Dynamics / Eidos)
Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Planet Moon Studios / Interplay)
Glover 2 (Interactive Studios / Hasbro)
Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado (Ubi Soft)
GorkaMorka (Real Sports / Ripcord)
Grand Prix 4 see Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix 3 - 2000 Season
Grand Theft Auto 3
Gun Valkyrie (Smilebit / SEGA)
Gutherman (No Cliché / SEGA)

H
Harley Davidson
Heavy Metall F.A.K.K. 2 (to be released on PC only)
Hundred Swords (only released in japan, the English version was never published)
HydroSport Racing
Half-Life for Dreamcast (Gearbox + Captivation Digital Laboratories / Sierra)
Half-Life Online (Gearbox + Captivation Digital Laboratories / Sierra)
Hamunaptra see The Mummy
Harukaze Sentai V Force 2 (Bing Kids)
Hype: The Time Quest (Ubi Soft)

I
Independence War 2 The Edge of Chaos
Innocent Tears

J
Jambo Safari
Jet Set Radio 2 see Jet Set Radio Future
Jet Set Radio Future (Smilebit / SEGA)
Jump Runner (Glass Ghost)

L
Last Bronx 2 (SEGA)
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 (Crystal Dynamics / Eidos)
Legend of the Blade Masters (Ronin / Ripcord)
Links LS see ESPN Golf Links

M
Major League Soccer (Konami)
Max Payne (Remedy / Rockstar / Take 2)
Messiah (Shiny / Interplay)
Metal Max Overdrive (ASCII)
Metal Max Wild Eyes (ASCII)
Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (Microsoft + Konami)
Microsoft Links LS see ESPN Golf Links
Midnight GT (Rage)
Military Operations on Urban Terrain 2025 see Shrapnel: Urban Warfare 2025
Missile Command 3D (Hasbro)
M.O.U.T. 2025 see Military Operations on Urban Terrain 2025
Mojo Rally see Austin Powers: Mojo Rally
Monster Breeder (NEC)
Monster Truck (Konami)
The Mummy (Rebellion + Konami / Fox Interactive)

N
Nights 2 (requires submission?)
New Worlds see Star Trek: New Worlds

Or
Outcast (Appeal / Infogrames

P
Picassio
Planet of The Apes
Propeller Arena (was going to be able to play online as well)

Q
Quest of the Blade Masters (Ripcord)
Quark

R
Renegade Racers
Resurrection
Rings (Konami)
The Road to El Dorado see Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado
Roswell Conspiracy Theories (crawfish / Red Storm)
Rune

S
Sanity - Aiken's Artifact
Star Trek New Worlds
Streets of Rage 4
System Shock 2
Sanity - Aiken's Artifact (Monolith / Fox Interactive)
Shadowman: 2econd Coming (Iguana / Acclaim)
Shienryu 2 (Warashi)
Shik - Evenstar
Shrapnel: Urban Warfare 2025 (Zombie / Ripcord)
Sierra Sports: Game Room (Sierra)
Sim City 3000 (Maxis)
Sister Princess
Skies (Paradigm / SegaSoft)
Sonic & Knuckles RPG (SEGA)
Soul Reaver 2 see Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
South Park: Deeply Impact (Iguana / Acclaim)
Spec Ops 2 see Spec Ops Online
Spec Ops Online (Zombie / Ripcord)
Speed Devils 2 (Ubi Soft)
SPIKE OUT
Star Trek: New Worlds (Binary Asylum RuneCraft + / Interplay)
Star Wars: Super Pumps Racing (Lucas Learning / LucasArts)
Substance
Supreme Snowboarding see Boarder Zone
SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle (Sierra)
System Shock 2 (Looking Glass Studios / Vatical Entertainment)

T
Take the Bullet (Red Lemon / SEGA)
Ten6 see 10six
Test Drive Cycles
Test Drive Off-Road 3
Time Crisis 2 (Namco)
Total Annihilation 2 (Cavedog / GT Interactive)
Trespasse (DreamWorks)
Trinity
Tropico (PopTop / G.O.D.)
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (Iguana US / Acclaim)
The Mummy
Toe Jam and Earl
Tropico

U
UEFA Striker see 2001 UEFA Striker Millennium
UEFA Striker Millennium (Rage)
UFC: Tapout see Ultimate Fighting Championship: Tapout
Ultimate Fighting Championship: Tapout (Crave)
Unreal (GT Interactive)

V
V.I.P. (Pamela 3D =)
V Force 2 see Harukaze Sentai V Force 2
V.I.P. (Kalisto / Ubi Soft)
Virtua Striker 3 (Amusement Vision / SEGA)
VR Baseball 2000
VR Football
VR Hockey

W
Warzone 2100 (Pumpkin Studios / Eidos)
Wave Runner (SEGA)
Whiplash 2
Wild Water World Championships see Renegade Racers
Wipeout (Psygnosis Liverpool Studio)
The World's Scariest Police Chase: Deadly Pursuit (Teeny Weeny Games / Fox Interactive)
Worms Pinball (Team 17 / Infogrames)
Wild Metal
World's Scarest Police Chase (left alone in PSX)

X
Xena: Warrior Princess


http://www.youtube.com/v/UVrMGger1Wc


Thats some awesome list of games that sadly never arrived on Dreamcast

[Tachikoma_Pilot]

Damn some awesome games, I wish Majesco could release like a Dreamcast v.2 and coax one or two people to release unfinished games :(

[Zack]

Some of those games may have saved the dreamcast.

I know I would have got one just for Streets Of Rage 4 ;)

[Basile]

Many and many good games !
Never released for dc ...
I guess beta version exists ... somewhere .

[Eviltaco64]

I'm still find 'Sonic & Knuckles RPG' fascinating.
I wonder how far it got (I'm guessing it got to the drawing board)

[quzar]

I wonder where ron got this list from, cause there are much larger lists out there.

This one is shorter but has references: http://www.sega-brasil.com.br/especiais/dcunreleased/index_en.shtml

Another list with some not included elsewhere: http://www.segadatabase.net/sega/dc/ur/index.htm#

This list is very similar too: http://boards2.sega.com/sega_board/viewtopic.php?t=13751

What would be nice is a list with proper citations. Most of these come from magazines which had little bits about them, but a number have been guesses based on... who knows?

[Darksaviour69]

About max payne, I was at a conference a few years a go, which the head of remedy was doing a Q&A. Hes was asked about the dreamcast version of Max, he said that he never saw any max payne code running on the dc

[geise69]

Well 100 Swords did get a US release...just it was for PC. :confused: I hate these lists. It makes me sad and angry every time I read them. The always "what could've been" Same for when I got my Turbo Duo. EGM had a list of US games in development and more than 70% of them were canceled.

[Guaripolo]

well DC got his notoficiallyreleasedbutexistinginfact games (half life, propeller arena...), maybe it could happen like 3DO scene -some unreleased game licenses were buyed and the games are being released now-

Also theres always a chance to get devkits with unreleased games -but the chance to found games in advanced stages of development is low-

Maybe someone can give the DC scene a "gift" for the 10º anniversary :D:D:D:D

[Elven6]

That is a pretty amazing list, it's a shame.

[youtube.maniac]

Awesome!
tarifs referencement (tarifsreferencement.com)

[Eric]

Wild Metal wasnt cancelled i own that big huge piece of crap game. Honestly i love the Dreamcast and just about every game released for it but i have played one shitty game sorry for the language and Wild Metal was ultimate shitty.

[segafreak2]

Agartha looked so good, so did Picassio - two I'd love to see. We can only hope that in some midlander's basement we could find a pre-production disc!

[psykotine]

hello,

In your list you can add :

- Planet Harrier
- Metal Slug 3
- King of fighter 2003
- Ecco 2
- Senko no rondo

final fight revange was the last game on saturn (not on DC)

[Smokexz]

Would've enjoyed the Sonic and Knuckles RPG...
I mean back then, Sonic team knew their stuff...
Now they are just a bunch of adults trying to get "HIP" with the consumers...

Sure as hell the game would've been better then all the Sonic games we have today.

[GagaMan]

I've heard from in depth Sonic sites that Sonic & Knuckles RPG was what eventually became Sonic Heroes, though i'm not sure how true that is.

Senko no rondo was never considered for Dreamcast, I think it was just hope on the Dreamcast communicates side which led to a petition, seeing as it was a Naomi game in the arcades.