Necessary Force is a cancelled action game that was in development at Midway Newcastle. The game was supposed to be open-ended, with the player that would have been able to choose how to approach the mission. Unfortunately, Midway Newcastle shut down in august 2009 and the project had to be shelved. A preview of an early playable demo can be found on the EDGE website and, as we can read, the game sounded promising:
[...] the developer’s demo room is the result of only three months’ work, yet there is plenty to see, and in remarkably stable, consistent form. [...]
As a police officer assigned to this beat, you’re looking at a clean-up operation, which due to the game’s construction will play out literally. As you eliminate criminal activity to make these streets safer, we’re told, they will transform. The ubiquitous graffiti will be scrubbed away. Boards will be removed from windows. Entire buildings will be replaced with shiny new constructions, putting a shop, say, were once there was a tumbling-down tenement.
Thanks a lot to Sam Chester for the help in preserving some screens of the models that he created for the game!
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5 Responses to Necessary Force [Cancelled - Xbox 360/PS3/PC]
Matthew
October 7th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Game has absolutely gorgeous graphics. Why was it canceled?
monokoma
October 8th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Midway was killed by economic problems :(
Unknow
June 1st, 2010 at 10:45 am
Great just great. Crisis killed another good game…
Alan
July 30th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Looks like Loose Cannon
gamename
April 3rd, 2013 at 10:29 pm
The atmosphere reminds me of the first Deus Ex (2000), which is still my favorite game. Too bad it was canceled.