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Necrocide: The Dead Must Die [PC – Cancelled]

monokoma
01-03-2011
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Necrocide: The Dead Must Die is a cancelled FPS / action game that was in development in 2000 / 2001 by NovaLogic for PC, that looked like a mix between TimeSplitters and Serious Sam. Players would have took the role of a female vampire, to clean up a city infested with armies of zombies, werewolves, demons, hellhounds, and other enemies. The project was officially canned in May 2002, as we can read at Gamespot:

We confirmed with a NovaLogic representative that the game has indeed been canceled so that the company can focus its attention on a new cross-platform project that will make use of a high-profile license.

Thanks to derboo for the contribution!

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Others, PC / MAC

X-COM Alliance [PC – Cancelled]

monokoma
20-01-2011
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X-COM: Alliance is a cancelled FPS / Strategy game that was in development in 1999 / 2000 by Hasbro Interactive’s Chipping Sodbury office in the UK and later by their studio in Hunt Valley, USA. As we can read in Wikipedia, unlike other games in the X-COM series, most of which were turn-based strategy, the game had the player assume the role of a trooper in an X-COM squad and through the first-person perspective of a squaddie, to fight the hostile alien invaders. At the end of 1999, the Hunt Valley studio survived the first round of studio closures enacted by Hasbro Interactive when they decided to scale back their efforts in the video game industry. Later in 2000, however, the Hunt Valley studio was also closed down and the game was “shelved”.

Thanks to Leo(T.C.K.) and derboo for the contributions!

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Leaked, Others, PC / MAC

Seed [PC – Cancelled]

monokoma
09-01-2011
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Seed is a cancelled FPS that was in development in 1998 by Human Soft, a team from Hungary. The particularity of this game was the colorful lighting engine, as you can see from the screenshots below, some of which were found by derboo in PowerPlay magazine 7/1998. Seed was proposed to be a new action game that aimed to blend the gameplay of a first person shooter with the action approach of a console title. In the end it seems that Human Soft were not able to find a publisher interested in their project and Seed remained unfinished.

A beta demo was released online and you can download it at File Planet. Thanks a lot to Solaris for the videos!

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Others, PC / MAC, Playstation, Saturn, Sega, Sony

Magic Carpet [Beta – PC, PSX, Saturn]

monokoma
03-12-2010
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Magic Carpet is a shooter / action game developed by Bullfrog Productions and designed by Peter Molyneux, released in may 1994 for PC, Playstation and Saturn. As we can read on Wikipedia, in the game player plays a wizard (on a magic carpet) flying over water, mountains, and other terrain while destroying monsters and rival wizards.

Pcloadletter found an old beta screenshot of Magic Carpet in Edge magazine issue 1 (october 1993) with different hud and 3rd person view. The final game can only be played in first person view so we never seen the main character on the playing screen before (thanks to Aybe for the confirmation!). Also, it seems that the game was planned for the 3DO too..

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Unseen News

[New Article] Left 4 Dead 2 Beta Analysis

U64 Staff & Contributors
03-12-2010
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Left 4 Dead 2 was built from the ground up and used material and ideas (used & unused) from the original left 4 dead. Left 4 dead 2 remained the same over the course of its development with few to no changes made until the games release. In a nut shell, most of the concepts that weren’t incorporated into the original Left 4 Dead has been incorporated into Left 4 Dead 2. >> Read the full article!