Unseen News

More cancelled games from Brash Entertainment?

monokoma
10-11-2008
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A news on Gamespot from some days ago talked about the financial troubles that are going on at Brash Entertainment: over 20 employees will be laying off and they are looking to ditch rights for a bunch of unfinished games that were currently in development. Superman (by Factor 5?), Tale of Desperaux, Prison Break, Night at the Museum 2, Clash of the Titans and 300 could be cancelled if they dont find any other publishers that would like to release them. More games for the Unseen Archive? Most of those  projects are based on movie and TV properties, but we dont have any screens or videos from the gaming versions yet.. 

Playstation 2 (PS2), Sony

God Of War [PS2 – Beta]

U64 Staff & Contributors
10-11-2008
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God of War is an action adventure based on Greek mythology, released for the PlayStation 2 in 2005. The game was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment’s Santa Monica division. In the final game is possible to unlock a bonus room (the Character Graveyard), in which the developers have collected various beta enemies that were rejected and even early designs of some used ones. Thanks to GodOfWarProduction’s Youtube Channel we can have a look at all those unused enemies!

Also, in the very first GOW footage ever shown in 2004, we can notice a Beta HUD, slightly different Kratos, Beta Blades of chaos and Beta enemies. Also, another bonus video that can be unlocked in the final game, shows various removed levels and early prototypes!

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Mega Drive / Genesis, Sega

Sonic 3 & Knuckles [MD/G – Beta / Unused Levels]

U64 Staff & Contributors
09-11-2008
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Sonic & Knuckles was developed by the Sega Technical Institute in collaboration with Sonic Team, and published by Sega for the Genesis/Mega Drive in 1994. It is the direct sequel to Sonic 3, which was released earlier that year and it seems that some removed levels from S3 were later re-used for S&K. As our friends at X-Cult say: “Sonic & Knuckles is, at it’s heart, a continuation of Sonic 3; or rather, a collection of Sonic 3’s lost levels and then some”. It seems that the project was originally named “Sonic 3 & Knuckles”

In these beta images we can see an unknown “carnival night zone” and the Sonic 2 “Hidden Palace” in the hacked level-select menu screen,  while in the other gameplay ones there are probably just graphical differences that are minor.

Also, Interesting fact to note. Sonic 3 and Knuckles Developer Roger Hector points out that Sonic 3 and Knuckles was going to be an isometric 3D style game in a similar fashion to sonic 3D blast. Also, it was confirmed that Micheal Jackson did work on the game’s soundtrack. The soundtrack was re-written by Howard Drossin due to the development team removing Jackson’s soundtrack cause of a child molestation scandal near the end of the game’s development cycle.

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Nes / Famicom, Nintendo

Hoppin Mad [NES – Unreleased]

U64 Staff & Contributors
08-11-2008
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Some time ago, mrmark0673 from the Digital Press Forum, found a working prototype of Hoppin Mad, an unreleased NES game developed by Elite. It seems that the game is a remake of a game that was previusly released on old PCs (C64, Spectrum, Amstrad), but with different levels. Later an article about the game was published on Nintendo Age with some better screens from the 3 playable levels.

If you would like to play the gam, you can download Hoppin Mad from here! Thanks a lot to Mr Mark for the contribution!

For more info: Unseen Interviews: Mr. Mark & Hoppin Mad

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