In this edition of Unseen64, I talk about the cancelled Xbox 360 and PS3 game, Dirty Harry. Enjoy!
RS Links: the lost Mortal Kombat court for NBA Jam
Robert Seddon has linked us to the Escapist Magazine, where they talked about a Mortal Kombat themed court that was meant to be used in one of Midway’s NBA Jam / Hangtime home ports. In july 2009, Ed Boone, co-creator of the Mortal Kombat series, revealed a screen of this unused court in his Twitter account. As Boone said:
These images were going to be used in a “hidden MK court” for one of Midway’s NBA Jam/Hangtime home ports. But the NBA said no. :(
Thanks to Robert Seddon for the contribution!
La Femme Nikita [DC/PS2 – Cancelled]
La Femme Nikita is a cancelled action game that was in development in 2000 / 2001 at Infogrames Lyon House: the project originally started in 1999 as “Mission Impossible 2”, a sequel to the original Nintendo 64 game. It seems that Infogrames soon decided to stop the development for the N64 and port MI2 to the new-released Dreamcast.
Fabien Lacaf, a professional story boarder, worked on MI2 and created different level environment (for 3D artists) and some parallel action designs for the missions. The first concept to MI2 was based on levels that would have been completed following the progress of the main protagonists that worked in parallel at the same time. The player was going to use different characters to complete the missions divided in different parts: in every single part the actions would have affected the next parts of the mission with the following characters.
After some months of work, the studio did not have the “Mission Impossible” license anymore and so they had to change the game into “La Femme Nikita”, based on the film / TV series with the same name. The project was then moved to the Playstation 2 but after 2 years of development, the publisher (Atari) decided to cancel “La Femme Nikita” for economic reasons.
That was the end of “Mission Impossible 2” for the Nintendo 64.
Thanks to Hey Hey for the contribution and to Rodolphe for his help to preserve more images from the project! Read more
ToeJam & Earl III [XBOX – Unused Stuff]
ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth is an action video game released in October 2002 for the Xbox, and is the third game in the ToeJam & Earl series. It was originally developed for Sega’s Dreamcast before being ported to the Xbox after the Dreamcast’s commercial failure. You can find more screens and videos from ToeJam & Earl III Dreamcast in our Unseen Archive.
Phugolz was able to find some unused cutscenes hidden in the final game, as he wrote in the U64 Forum:
I began to dig through the files. I found what appears to be a set of hot tub cutscenes that were never used! On top of that, there seems to be a video capture test video lost among them that has footage of what appears to be the grass level, with a hot tub! The hot tub is -kinda- used in a secret area linked from the grass area.
You can find some videos of the unused scenes at X-Cult!
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[Video Article] Jet Set Radio Wii
A new, short video article about the Jet Set Radio game for Wii that never made it into development. Exciting stuff. We’d be playing it now if it wasn’t for the masterminds of a certain publisher. Crumbs.