Manhattan Project is the early working title of Blood Lines, an action / puzzle game developed by Radical Entertainment in 1998, for the original Playstation. In the game the player needs to touch the light sources that are placed in the levels, to change them in his own color. At the end of the time, the player that owns more lights wins the match.
From these early screens we can notice that the characters in the beta version were different and even the light effects are not like the final ones.
LiamRproductions has recorded a video-article in which he talks about the development of Kid Icarus Wii, a prototype that was in the work at Factor 5. It’s still unknown if the project will ever be finished or not, but it seems that after the closure of the american studios, F5 are still working on some Wii games in Germany . You can check the video article below, thanks to Liam for the video!
When LucasArts terminated their contract with Free Radical Design (nowadays known as Crytek UK), the studio was not only working on Star Wars Battlefront III and Time Splitters 4. Instead, the company started the pre-production of another Star Wars Battlefront game.
Is it too hot to work? Does the summer call you to the beach or to the mountains for a lengthy retreat? Well, the Unseen 64 Staff is going in vacation, too! From today (8th of August) this site will be in “Summer Break Mode 2009”, we are going to relax somewhere around the world and dream about beta games while we are swimming in the ocean or walking in the woods. Don’t worry! We’ll be back in September with all the updates and news from the unseen gaming world. In the meantime, there are still lots of things to do while we are away:
– Contribute: Would you like to help the U64 Archive? Read how you can help us to preserve more beta screens, videos and info!
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Thanks to everyone that supports U64 with love. See you all very soon!
Faith and a .45 is a cancelled action game that was in development by Deadline Games for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The story would have follow a couple named Luke and Ruby, two outlaws during the Great Depression. This idea evolved from a tech demo about a “Bonnie & Clyde” couple, inspired from the real-life couple of outlaws, robbers and criminals who, with their gang, travelled the Central United States during the 1930s.
The game was going to follow their lovely escape (Deadline called Faith and a .45 a “gritty, emotional shooter”) and the gameplay should have been similar to a cover-based third-person shooter (as Gears of War or Army of Two) in particular with the dual-character dynamic, with online and offline co-op. [Info from Wikipedia]
Sadly they were not able to find a publisher interested in the project and on May 2009, Deadline Games filed for bankruptcy. Faith and a .45 vanished forever with the closure of the studio.
As noted by NeXuSDK on the NeoGAF forum, Deadline Games had a lot of troubles selling the game concept to publishers:
Initially, Faith and a .45 was set in a post-apocalyptic setting ala Fallout, which publishers didn’t see value… now look at Fallout. Then they changed the theme to something Bonnie & Clyde inspired, set in the era of the great depression and still developers could not see the potential.
Thanks to Robert Seddon for the contribution!
Thanks a lot to Jonas Springborg, Jan Ditlev and Adam Rishede for the help in preserving their artworks created for this project! Some more images are from Carsten Brandt’s website. All images are copyrighted Deadline Games.
Images:
Videos:
Søren Lundgaard is the Game Consultant at DADIU. Before this he worked at Deadline Games for 10 years, first as a Lead Programmer, later as a Game Director.
Credits:
Original Idea Kristine Ploug Søren Lundgaard
Director Helle Pagter
Visual Concept Helle Pagter Felicia Bang
Production Design Felicia Bang Tine Lylloff Madsen
Multiple Camera Direction Sun Hee Engelstoft
Camera Signe Tora Munk Bencke Sine Vadstrup Brooker Martin Køhler Jørgensen
Light Torben Borup-Madsen
Edit Linda Nielsen-Mann Helle Pagter
Sound Sune Kaarsberg
Set Construction Ninna Stengade
Technical Support Schack Lindemann Peter Posgaard Lars Holstener
Logo animation Dennis Nielsen
Images All images courtesy of Aptocore Aps
Thank you The National Film School of Denmark The Computer Game Zone
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