Sabreman Stampede [X360 - Cancelled]

Do you remember Donkey Kong Racing on the GameCube? Well, we lose it when RARE was sold to Microsoft, even if rumors said that it could have been ported to the XBOX as “Sabreman Stampede Racing”. Sabreman is the main character in a series of games released by RARE for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the 1980s. Fans have embraced the idea ever since the release of Kameo: Elements of Power, in which the “Stampede Team” is credited. [Info from Wikipedia]

This was all vaporware till about a month ago, when Transparentjinjo has added on his YouTube channel a video from the Sabreman project, that seems to have had a long and interesting development history. We are not sure from where these videos came from, but we are happy that some proof of the existence of the project can now be saved! In the video’s description we can read: “Beta footage from Rare’s cancelled Sabreman game. Started off as Donkey Kong Racing on Gamecube, which became Sabreman Stampede on Gamecube/Xbox, and was an adventure game for Xbox 360 when it was cancelled.”

The video looks a bit like the new Banjo & Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, and it could be that Sabreman was used as a prototype to develope the new Banjo game. We hope to find more info soon (and videos from the XBOX version), in the meantime, take a look at the video from the cancelled 360 version of Sabreman.

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