Campus was a game in development at Ubisoft Montreal for Playstation 2 and Xbox. Although there was never an official announcement, the game is said to have similarities with Rockstar’s Bully. In 2005, Campus was canned after two years of development.
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NARC is an action game that was developed and published by Midway in 2005, for the Xbox and Playstation 2. A planned Nintendo GameCube version was later cancelled. The game’s source code (engine) dates back to the three-year-old State of Emergency but it was updated through the development. [Info from Wikipedia]
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The original Witcher is a action adventure / RPG for the PC developed by CD Projekt RED STUDIO and published in 2007 by CD Projekt in Poland and Atari for the rest of the world. The console version of the The Witcher (known as Rise of the White Wolf) was to be the best version yet, with enhanced graphics, new combat system, and rebuilt pixel by pixel for the consoles. Soon followed financial issues between co developers CD Projekt RED STUDIO and co Widescreen Games as CD Projekt had not been financed in three months after fully committing to the new project. Michal Kicinski, Joint CEO CD Projekt Group for Widescreen Games response popped up as a comment on the VG247 article:
- All payments were done on time according to milestone plan.
- Truth is that payments were later than originally planned but this was solely due to delays in production. The delays were growing in the project due to WSG continued to miss the deadlines.
- Delays and risks of further development by WSG were unacceptable by CD Projekt (this happened even though CDProjekt RED was constantly increasing main team involvement to help in the production). The most important fact is that development process didn’t make planned release date possible and moreover propositions of the new release date were changing few times. Besides the schedule, technical incapability created a risk of missing planned quality which is absolutely unacceptable. And this brought an end in our cooperation with WSG.
- Currently the works are on hold. We are evaluating all possible options to continue the production.
Some time later CD Projekt officially canceled the console versions of The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf and is currently working on the sequel The Witcher 2 for PC.
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Oddballs was an action game with party game elements that was in development at Pandemic Studios in 2002, for the original XBOX. The project was about some little monsters that try to eat more “blue flying chikens” than the other creatures, but only an early prototype was created before the cancellation.
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Sandman was the name of a tech demo for a new car-combat game that was in development at Beyond Games, but later cancelled. This project could have been related to Redline 2 Arena or Motor Mayhem.
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