Abducted was a sci-fi / horror action adventure that was in development in 2002 by Contraband Entertainment for the original XBOX. The project was later sold to another development team, but as far as we know, it was never released in any way.
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Ricochet Rick is a 3D shoot ’em up that was in development at Titus Interactive for the GameCube and XBOX in 2001. We dont know how much it was done before the cancellation as the only screens available are a bunch of concept renders: probably the project was canned in early development, when Titus went bankrupt in the same year.
Thanks to Vincent for the contribution!
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Before Ensemble Studios was closed, they worked on serveral prototype games, such as Nova, Sorcerer, Wrench and Phoenix, an RTS which featured humans fighting aliens (which later evolved into Halo Wars). Another protype was known as “Bam” which Ensemble describes as a “Ratchet & Clank-Style Platformer”. As seen on various images posted by the company’s employees , in the game you would have played as Sprocket and the levels had a cartoony look to them.
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Gladiator: Sword of Vengeance is a hack and slash developed by Acclaim for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC. Early screenshots and footage show many differences, as noticed by Evan Hanley:
#The health bar and magic meter had a very different design.
#The health bar and magic meter are not visible for the tutorial in the final game.
#Invictus can wield all three weapons (sword, axe and arm blades) but he can only wield the arm blades in the final game.
#The select weapon text is different.
#The grab the rope text is different. The button to press to grab is different too.
#The camera work is different.
#A VC text flashes on screen very briefly.
#The arena you enter after using the rope has a completely different design.
#The music is very different.
#The music again is different.
The big and very noticeable differences are the Health and Magic Meter HUD is completely different and the Enemy Health Bars are basic.
Thanks to Evan for the contribution!
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Wreck’n Krew was an action game that was in development at DarkBlack for the GameCube, Playstation 2 and XBOX. As we can read from the original press release the game was a highly explosive arcade blast fest, that mixed Blast Corps, Power Stone and Bomber Man. The player would had take the role of a team of demolition experts hired to take on dangerous and dirty jobs, to destroy everything in the level but have to complete certain mission-based tasks within a time limit in order to unlock hidden areas, special characters, and the next location waiting to be ripped apart.
It seems that the developers had to closed down, maybe because they did not find a publisher interested in their projects (this game and Asylum) and so Wreck’n Krew was cancelled. (And no, i dont know why one of the characters looks like Gary Coleman.)
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