teaser trailers and early gameplay
videos always get gamers hyped but video
game development is a difficult process
sometimes even the most promising titles
end up in the can welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
cancelled video games for this list
we’ve selected games that were
officially announced so those of you
looking for half-life 3 it can’t make
the list since its development has
neither been confirmed nor denied number
10 BC
in BC players would have been tasked
with developing a tribe of cavemen
fighting for survival in a dinosaur
infested world realistic ecosystems and
food chains were promised so if you
hunted a certain type of animal too much
it would go extinct and cause a chain
reaction that could lead to long term
catastrophe it sounded like a really
ambitious idea and it was in fact too
ambitious EC was cancelled after its
developers determined that its scope was
too big for it to be completed in a way
that would satisfy gamers number nine
thrill kill just several weeks before it
hit stores publisher virgin interactive
had to cancel thrill kill after they
were acquired by Electronic Arts after
the game got the restrictive adults-only
rating from the ESRB the EA board
eventually decided to cancel the game
citing its gory and rather offensive
nature fortunately for those of you who
are sadistic enough to want to try out
this gory fighter the developers decided
to leak the near completed version
online after the game got canned
it must suck to work so long on
something and then have it cancelled by
some board members but that’s business
for you number 8 Gotham by Gaslight
the Arkham series is awesome but before
those games
there was another epic story driven
Batman game in development Gotham by
Gaslight was to be based on the comic
book series of the same name and throws
Batman into a Victorian England
steampunk setting where the main villain
is Jack the Ripper it sounds cool but
unfortunately THQ couldn’t secure the
franchise rights to the iconic caped
crusader and this game was cancelled
after only one teaser video was seen
number seven prayed to a bad-ass
the original pray fused visceral
run-and-gun shooting gameplay with some
interesting mechanics such as the
ability to manipulate gravity and bake
your Cherokee main character performed
spirit walks in pray to you would have
played a human bounty hunter with
amnesia as he attempted to uncover his
past and blast aliens on the planet
Exodus
somebody should pray twos development
was troubled from the start and after
almost six years in development the game
was cancelled because it didn’t meet
Bethesda’s quality standards 6 years of
work down the drain
youch number 6 Shenmue II 3 then they
threw me out of the dojo
perhaps no Sega property is as revered
by hardcore gamers as the Shenmue a
series uh-huh we all know of the demise
of the Dreamcast and despite Shenmue a2
being ported to the Xbox it sold poorly
even with rave reviews Sega has no plans
to finish the series and what’s worse is
that according to developers the story
has been completed while fans still
cling to hope that it may still happen
seeing as the budget for the first two
games was a whopping 70 million it’s
unlikely that Sega will invest in a
third number 5 sadness there was a lack
of adult oriented games on the Wii so
it’s a shame that sadness never saw the
light of day one of the first games
announced on the console sadness mixed
beautiful black and white graphics with
horror gameplay that was going to be
tense and psychological it promised a
really unique storyline dealing with
mental disorders and family issues in a
bleak Eastern European setting the games
release became questionable when no
gameplay footage was ever shown and it
was eventually unceremoniously cancelled
due to development issues
number four star fox 2 star fox 2 had
its plug pulled mere days before hitting
stores because Nintendo felt that the
recently released n64 would translate to
poor sales the original Star Fox was an
on-rails space shooter with innovative
3d graphics and starfox 2 improved upon
its gameplay with a more open-ended
mission structure and bigger fleets of
ships fans have translated the completed
Japanese version so although the game
was officially cancelled it’s still
rather playable and its strategic layout
eventually became part of starfox
command on the DS so not all was lost
number three
Starcraft ghost Blizzard also had
another project an MMO known as Titan
that was cancelled recently though with
Starcraft ghosts Blizzard was planning
on giving us an up close and personal
look at the much-loved Starcraft
universe in ghost
estelle shooter you would have
controlled a terran ghost named nova as
she used various gadgets and
technologies to sneak her way through
hostile encampments Blizzard has a
really good track record with his games
so ghost must have been canceled for
good reason right there are no maybes
here lieutenant they turn their spiny
tails and ran away before the first drop
ships had sat down number 2 Star Wars
1313
when Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2013
they shut down its video game studio
LucasArts previously star wars
battlefront 3 got frozen in carbonite in
2008 and 1313 was dropped down the
Sarlacc pit with the developer’s closure
simply put early gameplay footage of
1313 looked spectacular it was meant to
be the grittier more violent take on the
Star Wars universe that so many of us
have been wanting for so long
still with the confirmed revival of the
battlefront series one hopes that this
highly anticipated third-person shooter
is next in line for unawakened before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions
turn around when I’m talking to you turn
around
number one multiple Mega Man games
Capcom certainly has a way of breaking
the hearts of fans everywhere by
canceling not one but four highly
anticipated Mega Man games
first there was Mega Man Legends 3 which
was the long-awaited sequel to the cult
classic legends platformer series then
there was maverick hunter a dark and
intense looking first-person shooter
then there was the Mega Man universe a
sandbox that allowed players to create
and share their own classic 2d Mega Man
style stages finally there was an MMO
known as Mega Man Online all of these
games got the unceremonious chop and now
with series creator kenji inafune a
having left Capcom to make mighty number
9 one of the most iconic videogame
characters of all time may have well
been canceled himself Are you
disappointed with this list is there a
canceled game that you were really
looking forward to ro called in seize
thanks for more highly anticipated top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
videos always get gamers hyped but video
game development is a difficult process
sometimes even the most promising titles
end up in the can welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
counting down our picks for the top 10
cancelled video games for this list
we’ve selected games that were
officially announced so those of you
looking for half-life 3 it can’t make
the list since its development has
neither been confirmed nor denied number
10 BC
in BC players would have been tasked
with developing a tribe of cavemen
fighting for survival in a dinosaur
infested world realistic ecosystems and
food chains were promised so if you
hunted a certain type of animal too much
it would go extinct and cause a chain
reaction that could lead to long term
catastrophe it sounded like a really
ambitious idea and it was in fact too
ambitious EC was cancelled after its
developers determined that its scope was
too big for it to be completed in a way
that would satisfy gamers number nine
thrill kill just several weeks before it
hit stores publisher virgin interactive
had to cancel thrill kill after they
were acquired by Electronic Arts after
the game got the restrictive adults-only
rating from the ESRB the EA board
eventually decided to cancel the game
citing its gory and rather offensive
nature fortunately for those of you who
are sadistic enough to want to try out
this gory fighter the developers decided
to leak the near completed version
online after the game got canned
it must suck to work so long on
something and then have it cancelled by
some board members but that’s business
for you number 8 Gotham by Gaslight
the Arkham series is awesome but before
those games
there was another epic story driven
Batman game in development Gotham by
Gaslight was to be based on the comic
book series of the same name and throws
Batman into a Victorian England
steampunk setting where the main villain
is Jack the Ripper it sounds cool but
unfortunately THQ couldn’t secure the
franchise rights to the iconic caped
crusader and this game was cancelled
after only one teaser video was seen
number seven prayed to a bad-ass
the original pray fused visceral
run-and-gun shooting gameplay with some
interesting mechanics such as the
ability to manipulate gravity and bake
your Cherokee main character performed
spirit walks in pray to you would have
played a human bounty hunter with
amnesia as he attempted to uncover his
past and blast aliens on the planet
Exodus
somebody should pray twos development
was troubled from the start and after
almost six years in development the game
was cancelled because it didn’t meet
Bethesda’s quality standards 6 years of
work down the drain
youch number 6 Shenmue II 3 then they
threw me out of the dojo
perhaps no Sega property is as revered
by hardcore gamers as the Shenmue a
series uh-huh we all know of the demise
of the Dreamcast and despite Shenmue a2
being ported to the Xbox it sold poorly
even with rave reviews Sega has no plans
to finish the series and what’s worse is
that according to developers the story
has been completed while fans still
cling to hope that it may still happen
seeing as the budget for the first two
games was a whopping 70 million it’s
unlikely that Sega will invest in a
third number 5 sadness there was a lack
of adult oriented games on the Wii so
it’s a shame that sadness never saw the
light of day one of the first games
announced on the console sadness mixed
beautiful black and white graphics with
horror gameplay that was going to be
tense and psychological it promised a
really unique storyline dealing with
mental disorders and family issues in a
bleak Eastern European setting the games
release became questionable when no
gameplay footage was ever shown and it
was eventually unceremoniously cancelled
due to development issues
number four star fox 2 star fox 2 had
its plug pulled mere days before hitting
stores because Nintendo felt that the
recently released n64 would translate to
poor sales the original Star Fox was an
on-rails space shooter with innovative
3d graphics and starfox 2 improved upon
its gameplay with a more open-ended
mission structure and bigger fleets of
ships fans have translated the completed
Japanese version so although the game
was officially cancelled it’s still
rather playable and its strategic layout
eventually became part of starfox
command on the DS so not all was lost
number three
Starcraft ghost Blizzard also had
another project an MMO known as Titan
that was cancelled recently though with
Starcraft ghosts Blizzard was planning
on giving us an up close and personal
look at the much-loved Starcraft
universe in ghost
estelle shooter you would have
controlled a terran ghost named nova as
she used various gadgets and
technologies to sneak her way through
hostile encampments Blizzard has a
really good track record with his games
so ghost must have been canceled for
good reason right there are no maybes
here lieutenant they turn their spiny
tails and ran away before the first drop
ships had sat down number 2 Star Wars
1313
when Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2013
they shut down its video game studio
LucasArts previously star wars
battlefront 3 got frozen in carbonite in
2008 and 1313 was dropped down the
Sarlacc pit with the developer’s closure
simply put early gameplay footage of
1313 looked spectacular it was meant to
be the grittier more violent take on the
Star Wars universe that so many of us
have been wanting for so long
still with the confirmed revival of the
battlefront series one hopes that this
highly anticipated third-person shooter
is next in line for unawakened before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions
turn around when I’m talking to you turn
around
number one multiple Mega Man games
Capcom certainly has a way of breaking
the hearts of fans everywhere by
canceling not one but four highly
anticipated Mega Man games
first there was Mega Man Legends 3 which
was the long-awaited sequel to the cult
classic legends platformer series then
there was maverick hunter a dark and
intense looking first-person shooter
then there was the Mega Man universe a
sandbox that allowed players to create
and share their own classic 2d Mega Man
style stages finally there was an MMO
known as Mega Man Online all of these
games got the unceremonious chop and now
with series creator kenji inafune a
having left Capcom to make mighty number
9 one of the most iconic videogame
characters of all time may have well
been canceled himself Are you
disappointed with this list is there a
canceled game that you were really
looking forward to ro called in seize
thanks for more highly anticipated top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
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