Deep Space was a Playstation 3 prototype that was created in 2007 by SCEA. It’s currently unknown if this project will ever be finished and released.
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Murder City [PC – Cancelled?]
Patison has found an article about a mysterious PC game called “Murder City” in an old Polish gaming magazine. There’s not much info on the game, only two screens (probably renders) which show some futuristic buildings and a little description, which says: “Somewhere in future, in gigantic, dark, Megalopolis” and other PR text. But there is another interesting part, saying: “You can flight anywhere, in this huge, vector, cities of future” so it could have been a Descent-like game. The Polish publisher was going to be Techland, but as far as we know, this game was never released.
Update: the game was released under a different name – Crime Cities. It was pretty much Descent meets G-Police.
Thanks to Patison and Hyde_PL for the contributions!
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The Diabolical Adventures of Tobu [PSX – Cancelled]
The Diabolical Adventures of Tobu is a cancelled flight-based action game that was in development by 989 Studios for the original Playstation. As we can read in a preview from Game Pro 111 and EGM issue 109 (thanks to Celine for the scans!), the game was set in a medieval asian world, where the young winged hero, Tobu, had to rescue his uncle from the vile emperor, Nee Hithol, and his minions.
While the gameplay could have been similar to other platform / action games, the interesting part was the 360-degree freedom of flying in those stylish 3D worlds, to fight enemies, collect power ups and search for secrets and hidden areas. From what we can see in the few screenshots released, Tobu looks somehow similar to another cancelled game, Dead Phoenix for the GameCube and as the Capcom’s title, it could be compared to Kid Icarus too. Sadly the project was never finished for unknown reasons.
Thanks to Celine & Hey Hey for the contributions!
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Army Brats [PSX – Cancelled]
Army Brats (aka “Army Men : Arcade Blast” or “Battle Brats”) was a prototype for a new action game that was in development by 3DO in 2000 / 2001 for the original Playstation. This project was supposed to be a sequel to the ArmyMen series of games, with “kid soldiers” instead of the usual ones. The game was later cancelled, before the company was closed down in 2003. A GameBoy Color version was planned too but it had the same bad luck and it was never released. In the gallery below you can check some models that were created for the CG intro of the game.
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Pigeon Drop [PS3 – Cancelled?]
A looking-fun Playstation Network downloadable game that was cancelled in early development.
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