New Cancelled Games & Their Lost Media Added to the Archive

PC / MAC, Playstation 3 (PS3)

Ramayan 3392 A.D. [PS3,PC – Cancelled]

IGOR
22-07-2022
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In 2007 Sony announced that they will add a new MMO to its collection on MMOs released to that time (Everquest).
On 10th August 2007 Sony announced that they will be developing new MMO in partnership with Virgin Comics. Game will be based on Ramayan 3392 A.D. comics released under Virgin Comics. It is a futuristic reinterpretation of indian mythology.
Sony signed a multiyear cooperation with the team behind the comics.

Virgin Comics cofounder and CEO Sharad Devarajan explained that the game’s cultural roots will help bring a fresh perspective to the genre.”

Ramayan 3392 A.D. is based on the ancient Sanskrit epic Ramayana. The story follows a
battle between humans and demons in a post-apocalyptic world. The comic was written by
Shamik Dasgupta with illustrations by Abhishek Singh, and was based on a story by author
Deepak Chopra and Elizabeth (1998) director Shekhar Kapur.

Ramayan 3392 A.D. was aimed for 2010 release. Until today, the game hasn’t been released and on most sites can be found its status on release date only as TBD.

Others, PC / MAC

Lifeline (Konami) [PC – Cancelled]

Todd_the_Toad
18-07-2022
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The Japanese Lifeline (AKA Operator’s Side) could have become another clone of Resident Evil (a special forces girl, a spaceship full of monsters …), if not for one feature: the main character was guided by only one voice. In the PS2 version, which was released in 2004, the game understood up to 5000 words, that is, the player could give complex orders like “shoot the nearest monster in the head, step back two steps.” With numerous NPCs, communication also took place through voice.

The sales were satisfactory, but it was obvious that such an idea would not go far. And it turned out to be difficult for the players to have a continuous conversation with the game for several hours. As a result, Konami had to abandon porting the game to PC (by the way, the demo version was preserved on the Web), and Lifeline remained in history as an unusual game ahead of its time.

Information is taken from «Игромания» magazine, 03 (114) 2007

 

PC / MAC

Hardwired [PC – Cancelled]

IGOR
18-07-2022
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Hardwired from Novalogic was about postapocalyptic world filled with smugglers and gangs in Mad Max style. Player will be in role of a smuggler that will transport various goods on the black martket from zone to zone. Police or pirates will try to prevent player from doing it, so for the player will be important in what condition is players vehicle, known as Panzer, a mix between hovercratf and tank. After succesfull mission payment is done and player will be able to upgrade its hovercraft.

Game was going to be made after a cult novel of the same name, Hardwired, by Walter Jon Williams from 1986.

Novalogic set up a new studio in London to develop Hardwired.
Game was sadly cancelled mainly because
Wired magazine started a lawsuit against developers , where name Wired was the main concern. More info is on a screenshot in gallery of an article from 1997.


Only a few beaufiful concept art screens now remain from this interesting game.