The Butcher was one of many character prototypes created by Rare Ltd. in 2008. When the company’s direction shifted to Kinect software, all work on this prototype was abandoned. Currently we don’t know what kind of game Rare planned to use the Butcher into, or even if it would ever be used in some commercial project. As far as we know, this could have been a character study, without any gameplay connected at all. Only a few images and animations remain, to preserve the existence of this project.
Thanks to Moren for the contribution!
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Videos (please note that parts of the video contain animations that do not directly relate to the original prototype) :
U64 is an archive with articles, screens and videos for cancelled, beta & unseen videogames. Every change & cut creates a different gaming experience: we would like to save some documents about this evolution for curiosity, historic and artistic preservation.
2 Responses to Butcher [Xbox 360 - Prototype]
gabrielwoj
September 17th, 2011 at 12:37 am
How many RARE games since Microsoft brought has been cancelled? Seriously, I lost the count
Alex
September 28th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
That’s incredible, another Rare title cancelled? There are more cancelled games than released ones, at least if we don’t count the pre-Nintendo 64 games.