Arc Angel is a cancelled futuristic racing game prototype that was in development in 2003 for the Xbox, by a team lead by Chris Seavor at Rare LTD. There are just a few info about this lost project as a nice article at Pure Rarity:
Chris said that for the record Conker 2 was never scrapped; he just didn’t want to do it at the time and that was how Arc Angel was conceived. A nice easy racing game, or so he thought. During the four months he headed it a fair amount of design was nailed down but it eventually proved to be too ambitious. Also, some team members left the company or moved to other projects leaving Arc Angel with a lack of resources. Eventually the game was cancelled and Chris was put on Quest as lead artist.
Sadly there are no preserved images or videos about Arc Angel. If you know someone that worked on this prototype, please let us know! We would love to save some screens in the archive.
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2 Responses to Arc Angel (Rare Ltd) [Xbox - Prototype]
Anonymous
December 2nd, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Rarerare really sucks now. Screw micro$oft.
Megan Payette
March 27th, 2013 at 6:34 pm
I didn’t know that Rareware had a lot of games that never saw the light of day.