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Cancelled Disguise RPG, The Saboteur Proto, Pac-Man World 4
🕑 Added 2021-03-18 18:45:52 +0000 UTCKeeping up with our sturdy queue of lost games waiting to be remembered, we added 3 cancelled games to the Unseen64 archive:
Rites of Acerbus [PC]: cancelled Action RPG that was in development in the late ‘90s / early ‘00s by OMG-Games, a small, forgotten studio founded in 1998. The project started as an Unreal mod, changing the popular FPS into a role-playing game. Soon the mod evolved into a full-fledged game with some interesting features for its time, for example you could disguise yourself as anyone else in the game https://www.unseen64.net/2021/03/18/rites-acerbus-crest-dharim-cancelled/
The Saboteur [Xbox]: The Saboteur is an open world action game developed by Pandemic Studios and released on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC in 2009. Initially the project was pitched with a prototype built using the same 3D engine Pandemic used for Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, running on the original Xbox. In this early version the protagonist was William Grover-Williams, a real life race car driver turned SOE agent during the Second World War: https://www.unseen64.net/2021/03/18/saboteur-prototype-xbox/
Pac-Man World 4 [Xbox 360, PS3]: after releasing Pac-Man World 3 in 2005, between 2008 / 2010 Namco America (Namco Hometek) were working on a “Next Gen” Pac-Man 3D platformer for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. While this “Pac-Man World 4” was never officially announced, fans of the series found a concept trailer created for the project by a former Namco animator. Gameplay looked similar to previous Pac-Man World chapters: Pac-Man would have been able to roll and run around the levels, transforming itself into different forms https://www.unseen64.net/2021/03/17/pacman-world4-cancelled/
Comments
Probably "Ghostly Adventure" is still considered by Namco as a sequel to the Pac Man World titles, but they wanted to "reboot" the series on the new consoles. I wonder why this one was not fully developed, it looked a lot like a 3D Sonic game!
NuclearSaber
I always wondered why they never made a Pac Man World 4. Then I remembered the Pac Man Ghostly Adventures cartoon got two games, so I checked those out after picking them up for hella cheap. They're pretty fun! Namco has to be more consistent with Pac Man platformers in general though - I would love to see more World games.
