Urchin (Rare Ltd.) [X360 - Cancelled]
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Urchin was an adventure fantasy / horror game that was in development at Rare Ltd. for Xbox 360. A few pieces of concept art were revealed by Rare artist Ryan Firchau at the “Nordic Game Conference”, held in Malmö in Sweden in May 2008.
While details are scarce, it is known that Urchin was in development by the team that was responsible for Conker: Live and Reloaded. After that title, was released, they helped finishing Perfect Dark Zero for Xbox 360 launch before regrouping as the “Conker team” again. In late 2006, Urchin was cancelled after only a few months of work.
As Zenek has wrote on the Rare-Extreme Forum, it appears as if there was a Dumbot from Conker: Live & Reloaded named “Urchin Pig Girl”. From this little easter egg and from one of the concept arts leaked, we can speculate that the protagonist of Urchin was going to be that little girl with her pig, called Lilith. Other game characters were a professor (The Dean?), werewolves and zombies.
Thanks to Oolon for the contribution!
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13 Responses to Urchin (Rare Ltd.) [X360 - Cancelled]
Oolon Kalufiz
October 18th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
This was actually the Conker BFD/Live and Reloaded team, not the Goolies team.
monokoma
October 19th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Thanks for the info Oolon, i should have though about the Conker-team, seeing the “Urchin Pig Girl” Dumbot in C:L&R it makes sense!
Refurs
April 26th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
I’d say the images we formerly had in the Quest entry fit better in here.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3167875
Most of these, if not all, we done in 2006. Now I only hope that all of these belong to this game, but Ryan Firchau did not have any other cancelled title from this era listed on his website.
monokoma
April 27th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Maybe he just forgot to add Quest to the list? ;)
Refurs
April 27th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Don’t think so as he worked in the GBA team during that time and was then put into the Conker team ;)
You can also look at Dinosaur Planet or SFA concept art from that era, those were not as detailed as these :)
gabrielwoj
March 27th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
I guess RARE can’t hold on Microsoft… Most of games are cancelled!
:(
Also it really surprised me, this game looks more real, not as fantasy games (such as Banjo/Conker)…
MPNagem89
March 28th, 2011 at 9:51 pm
and yet rare didn’t cancel grabbed by the ghoulies, viva pinata, banjo-kazooie nuts and bolts, kameo, conker live and reloaded and finally kinect sports. how sad.
OKeijiDragon
April 5th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
And thats how unreleased games, look like good games. =P
I would have enjoyed this.
KeVBoarD
April 15th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
and another interesting game by rare cancelled because of those fu**ing kinect games? WHAT THE FU** Microsoft? WHAT…. THE…. FU**?
Balobo
May 1st, 2011 at 3:15 am
MPNagem89
With the exception of Kinect Sports, we really wouldn’t want those games to have been cancelled.
MPNagem89
May 1st, 2011 at 7:10 pm
the thing is rare is starting to get worse balobo and like it or not some of their latest game are GOD AWFUL the only newer rare games that are good are diddy kong racing ds and star fox adventures
MPNagem89
May 1st, 2011 at 7:11 pm
i met games sorry
Alex
June 24th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
I totally agree. Urchin, Banjo-Threeie, Conker 2, Perfect Dark 2, Perfect Dark Core, Dream, Kameo 2, Killer Instinct 3 and a lot of good titles have been cancelled while Kinect Sports and its sequel (which came only a year later the first, when it’s been eight years between Banjo-Tooie and it’s sequel!) have been released.