Ikon / Scavenger [PS2 - Cancelled]
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Loading ...Ikon was a third person shooter / sandbox game that was in development for the Playstation 2 from 2002 to 2005 at Ratbag Games. In three years the project evolved and it was later know as Scavenger, as it was shown at E3 2005.
As we can read on the official press release: “Scavenger’s hero is a loner battling for his survival and searching for a sister sold into slavery. Scavenging, trading and raiding, he builds up his arsenal of weapons to wreak revenge on the men who took her. Centred around a huge desert wasteland, the game features convoy attacks (players pit their skills against escorted convoys to try and steal their cargo) and allows players to trade to increase their wealth, align themselves with different factions, and increase their attack power by modifying their vehicles and upgrading weapons.
Even if they did find a couple of publishers interested in Ikon / Scavenger, the game was dropped by Rockstar after being dropped by Sony and sadly the development was stopped after E3 2005. Midway bough Ratbag Games and shut them down with this promising game still unfinished.
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2 Responses to Ikon / Scavenger [PS2 - Cancelled]
Matt
May 21st, 2009 at 11:16 am
The fact that not one but two publishers dropped this game most likely tells you something about it.
More begs the question why did Midway buy them in the first place?
monokoma
May 21st, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Well, it looked a promising game, but maybe it was just economically a risk to publish it for the PS2 while the new Xbox 360 and PS3 were going to be released. At least it seems that Borderlands from Gearbox Software could be something like Scavenger, and it’s coming out soon :)