Justice for Hire is a cancelled action adventure / survival horror game that was in development by Big Ape Productions, planned to be published by Midway for the original Playstation. BAP was a small studio based in Novato (CA), that worked on such games as Herc’s Adventures, Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, The Simpsons Wrestling and Celebrity Deathmatch. Sometime in late ’90s – early ’00s they got hired by Midway to develop Justice for Hire, but the project was never officially announced and there are no details about how it would have been played.
Only a few screenshots are saved in the gallery below, to remember the existence of this lost game. Justice for Hire featured pre-rendered backgrounds and was set in a modern-day city, exploring worn-down apartments and basements. We can speculate the game could have been similar to Resident Evil or Fear Effect.
In 2003 Big Ape Productions closed down, after most of their projects did not sell as expected by publishers. We tried many times to get in contact with former BAP developers, but with no luck. If you know someone who worked on Justice for Hire and could help us to preserve more details about the game, please let us know!
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I worked at Big Ape productions, the only game that I worked on that was releases was Celebrity Deathmatch for XBox (original xbox) and a playstation port. The way it worked, was we were contracted by a larger game company to do the work, they would have “Milestone” payments, which meant if you get X amount done by this date, we pay you a chunk of money, and that continues until the game is finished, then a larger amount is paid out. The boss Dean Sharpe would get the milestone payments and then vanish (lavish trips to vegas). One day a bunch of us left since they paychecks didnt come, and the last draw was the garbage company taking the garbage bin away. Anyway, everyone has scattered to the wind, but our names are all on Celebrity Deathmatch, if you can find a copy, and several other games.