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Cancelled Heavy Gear Sequel, PSVita Detective Adventure, Battle Jungler
🕑 Added 2021-06-12 11:23:23 +0000 UTCKeeping up with our cumbersome queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, we added 3 cancelled games to the Unseen64 archive:
Heavy Gear 3 [PC]: cancelled mecha based FPS that would have been the third chapter in the HG series, in development around 1999 by Savage Entertainment and planned to be published by Activision on PC. The team wanted to expand the mechanics found in previous Heavy Gear games, adding more robots, on-foot fighting and exploration, similar to what Titanfall did 15 years later https://www.unseen64.net/2021/06/12/heavygear3-savage-entertainment-pc-cancelled/
Broken [PSVita]: cancelled detective adventure game that was in development around 2011 – 2012 by Magenta Software, planned to be published by Sony on PSVita as one of their launch titles. The team was inspired by movies such as Mystic River, Zodiac, and Se7en: players would take the role of a detective in Miami, examining crime scenes and trying to stop a serial killer https://www.unseen64.net/2021/06/12/broken-magenta-software-psvita-cancelled/
Battle Jungler [PC Engine]:cancelled sequel / reboot of Konami’s 1981 Jungler, planned to be released on PC Engine around 1992. In the original game players move a long creature inside a maze, trying to eliminate three similar enemy creatures, so we can assume Battle Jungler would follow a similar gameplay (but with anime-style protagonists) https://www.unseen64.net/2021/06/12/battle-jungler-konami-pcengine-cancelled/
Comments
indeed! I did not know the existence of the Heavy Gear animated series, not even sure if it ever aired here in Italy, i would have liked those 3D robots :D Unfortunately it seems Activision just wanted something else that could made them more money :P
NuclearSaber
Ooh, nice! I didn't know there was an attempt at another Heavy Gear besides the much-later Heavy Gear Assault. Hearing that this was in development by Savage Entertainment briefly got me hyped, but then I looked into it and realized I was confusing them with S2 Games who made the GAMES called Savage and Savage 2 which were awesome FPS/RTS/action-RPG hybrids. I have no idea who Savage Entertainment were then. Still, it's interesting, especially to hear it was going to tie-in with the CG animated series at the time that I'm pretty sure no one ever saw but me, lol. Hiding in syndication on, like, Sunday mornings. I would've loved to see this come out, since it sounded like MechAssault 2 before MechAssault 2. Nice find!
