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Magic Karts [PS2 – Cancelled]

monokoma
21-12-2008
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Magic Karts is  a cancelled racing game that was in development in 2000/2001 by Paradigm Entertainment for Playstation 2, planned to be a spiritual sequel to Beetle Adventure Racing, one of the most interesting Nintendo 64 racing games. Even if this would have not used Volkswagen New Beetles brand of cars as the first game, Magic Karts would have probably have huge levels to explore while racing again other CPU cars (or friends in multiplayer mode), with colorful tracks full of secrets and hidden shortcuts. Unfortunately the game was never released, probably because Paradigm never found a publisher interested in this game.

Thanks a lot to Hey Hey for the link!

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Crash Twinsanity [PS2/XBOX – Beta]

monokoma
07-12-2008
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From early screenthos of Crash Twinsanity, we can notice that some stuff were different in the beta version: a character and some levels were removed (Foofie, the Lava Caves, Gone A Bit Coco), there were Bats in N. Sanity Island, the 10th Dimension area was different, Slip Slide Icecapades had a completely different layout and Farmer Ernest’s farm changed its location during development. A prototype of Twinsanity was know as “Crash Bandicoot Evolution” and it was meant to be much different and l 

Playstation 2 (PS2), Sony

Cortex Chaos [PS2 – Cancelled]

monokoma
05-12-2008
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Cortex Chaos was a spin-off game from the Crash Bandicoot franchise, that was in development at Traveller’s Tales Oxford, but that was cancelled just after the early concept stage. The game is also know as “The All-New Cortex Show” and the player would have used Dr. Neo Cortex as the main character. The project had some interesting ideas, as we can read in the Crash Mania website: “The first proposal was based on the idea that Cortex had a series of little Clones and he would have beeen able to control them to do several little tasks … such as pick up and throw bombs, collect items, or line-up to create a bridge” […] “The Second followed a Rockman/MegaMan style idea” […] “The Third idea somehow had Nina involved more… and used weapon upgrades”. You can read more infos at Crash Mania. Thanks a lot to HPZr!

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Project Alien [XBOX/PS2 – Cancelled]

U64 Staff & Contributors
02-12-2008
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In August 2004, High Moon Studios (at that time still known as Sammy Studios; owned by Sammy Japan) started to work on a title codenamed “Alien”. After Sega was acquired by Sammy Japan, Sega took control over Sammy’s North American studios. As a result, they tried to close Sammy Studios.

However, Sammy Studios got independent and reappeared under the name “High Moon Studios”. Sadly, Project Alien was cancelled in August 2005.

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Monster Hunter [PS2 – Beta]

monokoma
27-11-2008
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Monster Hunter  is an action role-playing game for the PS2, developed and published by Capcom. The tent in the Hunter’s camp was different in the beta version: it looked more “futuristic” and it did not have the top part. It can even be seen in the original Monster Hunter trailer from E3 2003 (and maybe there are even more differences in there? Can you see more changes?)

Beta version:

Final version:

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