Faith and a .45 [X360 PS3 - Cancelled]

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by monokoma In: MICROSOFT|playstation 3|SONY|xbox 360

8 Aug 2009

Faith and a .45 is a cancelled action game that was in development by Deadline Games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The story would have follow a couple named Luke and Ruby, two outlaws during the Great Depression. This idea evolved from a tech demo about a “Bonnie & Clyde” couple, inspired from the real-life couple of outlaws, robbers and criminals who, with their gang, travelled the Central United States during the 1930s.

The game was going to follow their lovely escape (Deadline called Faith and a .45 a “gritty, emotional shooter”) and the gameplay should have been similar to a cover-based third-person shooter (as Gears of War or Army of Two) in particular with the dual-character dynamic, with online and offline co-op. [Info from Wikipedia]

Sadly they were not able to find a publisher interested in the project and on May 2009, Deadline Games filed for bankruptcy. Faith and a .45 vanished forever with the closure of the studio.

As noted by NeXuSDK on the NeoGAF forum, Deadline Games had a lot of troubles selling the game concept to publishers:

Initially, Faith and a .45 was set in a post-apocalyptic setting ala Fallout, which publishers didn’t see value… now look at Fallout. Then they changed the theme to something Bonnie & Clyde inspired, set in the era of the great depression and still developers could not see the potential.

Thanks to Robert Seddon for the contribution!

Thanks a lot to Jonas Springborg, Jan Ditlev and Adam Rishede for the help in preserving their artworks created for this project! Some more images are from Carsten Brandt’s website. All images are copyrighted Deadline Games.

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4 Responses to Faith and a .45 [X360 PS3 - Cancelled]

MADLABS

October 14th, 2009 at 3:19 pm

This would have been a great game to compete with the already released game, “WET.”

So many great ideas are out there, but not too many of them get the “green light.” However, on the one hand, if this game were to be released, based on what I’ve seen, it would have been better than Blue Omega’s “Damnation,” which was a total flop from the beginning.

monokoma

October 15th, 2009 at 1:29 pm

Sadly most of the time original games are the ones more in danger to be cancelled. I’m sorry about the Damnation flop, it looked nice enough, but probably gamers dont care too much for action games if they are not part of a popular series or developed by a popular team :(