Ritual Entertainment

Sin 2: Reborn (Ritual Entertainment) [Cancelled – PC]

Sin 2 (AKA Sin Reborn) is the cancelled sequel to Ritual Entertainment’s 1998 FPS, which was pitched around 2003. The team created an early prototype demo using the Doom 3 engine, but they did not find a publisher interested in funding the project. From the available footage it seems the game’s antagonist wanted to mutate every human in the city, you could use the physic engine to destroy the environment and block / damage enemies, and you could drive around in vehicles.

Some details were also published on the old Ritual Entertainment’s website:

“In Summer 2003, Ritual Entertainment created a publisher demo for Sin II in order to find funding for the project. Using next generation technology, Sin II was to be a full blown follow-up to Ritual’s 1998 action hit Sin. Unfortunately, no publisher had serious interest in backing the title, forcing Ritual to abandon the idea for the time being.

While the game is not currently in development, we are able to bring you two exclusive in-game screenshots from Ritual’s demo. Taken in a black test map, the screenshots show the new models for main character John R. Blade and villainess Elexis Sinclaire.

So why doesn’t Ritual just release the demo? The demo was created using an in-development third party technology. Until this technology is completed and officially available for licensing, Ritual cannot release any more media from the demo, or even disclose what technology was used.”

In the end Ritual Entertainment chose to work on an Episodic series of Sin games, and the original Sin 2 was finally canned. Unfortunately even Sin Episodes did not have much luck: of the 9 planned episodes only the first one was published before the company was acquired by MumboJumbo.

Thanks to Piotr for the contribution!

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Star Trek Elite Force 2 [PC – Beta]

Star Trek: Elite Force 2 is a FPS developed by Ritual Entertainment and published in 2003 by Activision for PC. As we can read in wikipedia, towards the end of March 2002, rumors were reported that a sequel to Elite Force was in development. The game was the last Star Trek title to be developed under Activision’s supervision, following a dispute with Star Trek licensing holder Viacom.

In the gallery below you can see the first screenshots released for Star Trek: Elite Force 2, with an early engine and incomplete graphic (as a place holder HUD). Check the video below to compare it with the beta screens: if you notice more differences, please let us know!

Thanks to discworld for the contribution!

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