Wario World was first shown at E3 2002 as a technical demo. At the next E3 in 2003, it was shown with new levels of gameplay polish and tweaking, which the previous E3 demo was lacking.[Infos from Wikipedia] In these screens from the early version of the game, the HUD is different from the final one. Do you see any more differences in those levels?
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Castle! Castle! is a prototype for a cancelled game in development for PC and Gamecube at F4 (formerly known as F4-Toys), a French video game developer based in Paris composed of former staffers from Adeline Team and No Cliche, including Frederick Raynal. It seems that it was going to be a real-time strategy game / tower defense, where the players would have had to build and protect their castles, but sadly the project was cancelled. This could have been an evolution of another F4 proto, know as Pocket Castle.
Thanks to Jay for the english corrections!
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Trium Planeta was a prototype for a game in development for PC and Gamecube at F4 (formerly known as F4-Toys), a French video game developer based in Paris composed of former staffers from Adeline Team and No Cliche, including Frederick Raynal. From what we can see in the screens and learn from the little information available on the project, Trium Planeta was going to be an action adventure / brawl fighting game, but not much more info is available. Trium Planeta was officially cancelled in 2005.
Thanks to Robert Seddon for the contribution & to Jay for the english corrections!
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Zero7 has brought to our attention some differences in the early version of Pikmin 2: “In one of the photos the white pikmins don’t have red eyes (looks like a palette swapped yellow in that little window on the bottom). In another screen there’s .. a yellow potion? Wasn’t it red and.. blue/purple? Yeah, top was purple, bottom became red. Olimar’s Health looks off. Same with purple, model is fine, picture on the bottom is missing their features. In another image there are almost 20 potions.. no way you can get that many so quickly in ANY area of the final version, also that area doesn’t exist in the final (99% sure).
In a scene the red pikmin was inactive, but still colored, probably not a beta problem and I’m just remembering wrong, but I could’ve sworn they become a little lighter when they’re inactive. In the beta both players are using Olimar as their health, one red and one blue, but Louie gets his own icon in the final. We can even see the “Debug mode” in some of the screens.. and still using yellow potions, which dont exist in the final; maybe it was planned to choose between 3 different potions. The thing that goes down into caves with you looks different, like a lot less detailed than the final. In general all the pictures pre MAY 4 2004 are missing the second health meter for Louie and they all had different numberings for the pikmin count in the HUD (Beta: 0043 – final: [space][space]43).”
Also, in the videos below there are yellow and blue bolborbs, which are different in the final version (they are orange with black faces and green eyes). As we can read in Pikmin Wikia:
Two Bulborb subspecies are known to have been cut from the final versions of the Pikmin games. Both colors match those of the three main Pikmin types. Along with the Red Bulborb, each basic Pikmin type would have a fitting Bulborb had these not been removed. Naming used in the game’s data makes it clear that these became the Dwarf Orange and Hairy Bulborbs in the game.
As we could see in Pikmin [GC – Beta / Prototype / Unused Stuff / Debug] page, the pikmins were supposed to be black in the first time, however, Shigeru Miyamoto didn’t liked it, due not having any facial features, such as nose and eyes. However, in the game data folder, mostly, or all the files, redirected to Purple Pikmin, are named as “Piki-Black” (configuration/models/textures), meaning that in the first states of the game, the black pikmin would appear in the sequel.
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Thanks to Zero7, kieranmay, Foulowe 59 and gabrielwoj for the contributions & to Jay for the english corrections!
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TimeSplitters 2 is a first-person shooter available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. The game was published by Eidos and developed by Free Radical Design, a company founded by some ex-Rare members. In February of 1999, 20 months before the release of Perfect Dark, several members of Rare who had worked on GoldenEye 007, including Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton, Graeme Norgate, and David Doak, left to form their own company called Free Radical Design. After they developed the first TimeSplitters, Free Radical Design began work on TimeSplitters 2, with the goal of creating a more fulfilling story mode alongside the Arcade and MapMaker modes. [Info from Wikipedia] In the beta version of the game, there was a different HUD and different design for some of the weapons. You can see a comparison below:
Thanks to Danny33 for the contributions & to Jay for the english corrections!
Beta Electro Tool:
Final Electro Tool (beta HUD):
Beta Laser Gun:
Final Laser Gun (beta HUD):
Beta Plasma Autorifle?:
Final Plasma Autorifle (beta HUD):
Beta Tactical 12-Gauge:
Final Tactical 12-Gauge (beta HUD):
Beta Soviet S47:
Final Soviet S47 (with beta HUD):
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