Games With Dead In The Title

Some of the Best Games Out At that place Aren't Really Out At that place

Many epic game titles have attracted a lot of support during their concept stage merely considering some of them tend to set the bar too high for themselves, they are doomed to either foreclosure or development limbo. Evolution limbo, a sort of digital graveyard for unfinished titles, is where promising titles go when the companies that started them, bite off more than than they can chew. There are many reasons as to why this happens, and the following list of games are just a few examples of an unfortunate evolution wheel that never reached fruition.

Be information technology because of financial issues, company downsizing or only as a last endeavor to pull their companies out of the gutter, the following games never fabricated the final cut. And so here'south a list of 15 games which had awesome concepts and a lot of hype, but never fabricated it to the market.

15. Baldur'southward Gate III: The Black Hound (2002 - 2003)

Baldur's Gate I and Baldur's Gate Ii, the sequels that fix the bar for all future RPG titles also had a highly anticipated 3rd game in the works, until its unfortunate cancellation in 2003 every bit the visitor developing them, Black Isle Studios, went under. The game would take shifted from previous games in the series past adopting D&D 3rd edition rules (instead of 2nd edition rules and would accept an emphasis on multiplayer, just similar Bioware'south Neverwinter Nights.

The game'southward engine started every bit an adopted version of Bioware's Aurora engine but eventually, the developers created one specifically for BG 3 named the Jefferson Engine, the same engine used by some other of their unreleased titles - Van Buren (more about this at the end of the article). The game's emphasis was evidently on its highly reactive world, based in the D&D setting, the Dalelands. There was a potent emphasis on thespian pick-and-outcome, where even failed quests could alter the story line.

The game likewise supposedly had a complex morals system in identify, where the role player'southward alignment and reputation would shift based on his decisions, much like Black Isle's nigh acclaimed title, Planescape Torment. But as Black Island went nether because of financial problems, then did BG 3. Hopefully some other visitor may pick up where they left off and give united states a BG three that we all wished for. Obsidian Entertainment possibly?

The game's motto was: "You cannot kill guilt."

Early concept art from the game presumably featuring one of the explorable levels in the game.

14. Casualty 2 (2006 - 2014)

Prey 2 Trailer

Prey, a game developed past Human Head Studios and published by 2K Studios, was an innovative shooter from 2006 that took elements from many different shooters and combined them in a unique way of FPS. The game truly broke new footing with its awesome graphics and gameplay elements that were truly unique, amid the myriad of first-person shooters that came out that year. Equally soon equally the game came out in 2006, development had already begun on a sequel, which, afterwards the critical acclamation of the first i, was pretty much a done deal, with Bethesda existence the official publisher of the sequel. The second game in the series would take the game in an entirely different direction from the first one, becoming more of a spiritual successor rather than a true sequel.

Players would have been able to freely traverse an alien world, using parkour similar to Mirror's Edge, finding targets to prey upon, using a diverseness of techniques. A few examples of these were taking aliens hostage, letting them negotiate for their lives (which would requite the player a different target), interrogating them for data and more. The game besides featured tons of crazy weapons and gadgets as did the showtime one and these would requite the histrion a great amount of freedom on how to complete the game.
Unfortunately, the game was canceled in 2014, with no specific reason as to why. Rumors had it that a disharmonize broke out between the developer and the publisher which ushered in its foreclosure. Thankfully, Bethesda did release a remake of the offset i simply titled, Casualty, which is available for PC, PS4 and Xbox Ane.

Taking aliens hostage and manipulating them, was only one of the game's many features.

The game featured a beautiful, bizarre, alien open-world.

xiii. Project Titan (2007 - 2013)

I of Blizzard's most ambitious and nigh secretive projects, was their unreleased next-gen MMO, Project Titan. The game was supposedly prepare in a sci-fi version of world, just after an alien invasion failed to conquer it. Players could cull ane of 3 underground factions battling for globe. What fabricated this concept stand out, was that players would engage in combat with their enemy factions at night, and spend pursuing their not-combat, professions at mean solar day (such as engineer, crafter, or others).

The initial playable maps featured zones in the Usa, Europe, Australia and South America and players could choose from several classes (such as Reaper, Jumper, Titan, etc.) all with their unique manner of play. Although the game was officially canceled in 2013, this wasn't truly the instance. Fortunately, many of Titan's features found home in Blizzard's successful championship in recent years, Overwatch. So if you want to experience just a niggling flake of what Titan could accept been, (at least combat-wise) go cheque out Overwatch.

One of Titan'due south early concept arts, giving a glimpse into the world that players could explore.

12. Fable Legends (2013 - 2016)

Fable Legends - E3 2015 Trailer

On of the trademarks of the Fable series of activity RPGs was the immense reactivity of their game earth. The decisions you fabricated and the characters that you influenced during the course of the game afflicted, among other things, your appearance, the fate of the characters you run into and even changes to the areas you visit based on your deportment.
Fable Legends' early on evolution focused more on the multiplayer concept of the game before expanding on its single-player component.

The game's multiplayer aspect adopted a more than RTS-like photographic camera, pitting the players confronting each other in quests that would be fought between several Heroes and one Villain. The nature of the quests that the players would embark on would exist determined past the Villain who would control the monsters, gear up upwards traps and more. Heroes would then commence through these quests trying to crush the Villain and his machinations. The single-player aspect of the game had the same feature planned, with the AI taking control of these roles, and would likewise characteristic a narrative-heavy campaign, simply sadly, the game was canceled in 2016 before more details were known about its unmarried-player aspect.

The classes featured were (from left to right) the Rogue, the Archer, the Sorcerer and the Warrior.

The Villain could programme the levels by placing various traps using an RTS-like view.

eleven. Scalebound (2013-2017)

Scalebound Gameplay (E3 2016)

Scalebound was one of those promising genre-merging titles that would bring something new to the table in a dramatically ballsy fashion. The third-person action RPG was centered on a main grapheme, Drew, who was accompanied by a dragon companion named Thuban as they battled through hordes of enemies on a fantasy earth known as Draconis - a behemothic, ever-growing mushroom whose pulse gives life to all living things. The game featured singleplayer four-histrion cooperative multiplayer options with several players existence able to explore Draconis in an open up-world manner.

The players could take control of draconic powers, would have a ton of customization options and could also somewhen soar through the skies riding their dragon companion.
Developed by Japanese developer Platinum Games and published past Microsoft Studios, the game looked extremely promising, until its eventual counterfoil in 2017. Plainly the developer had a huge artistic clash with the publisher, both of which wanted to steer the game their way. The game also suffered from severe optimization issues, all of which contributed to the game's closure.

Scalebound was 1 of those rare games that featured a dragon companion.

The game world had a gorgeous design.

10. Jumpgate Evolution (? - 2012)

Jumpgate Development Enter the Fray Trailer

As with many other open-space game MMOs, Jumpgate Evolution was in development for a long time before it vanished from existence.
The game featured infinite-combat similar to Freelancer with the player playing from a 3rd-person perspective. The game featured several playable factions, which were picked at the beginning of the game. It offered several send roles that weren't limited to your player course and an XP based advancement system that players would use to better their characters.

The game also featured PvE and PvP gameplay, including realm vs. realm battles where entire servers could compete against each other to control a sure space sector.
No one truly knows why development has stopped any why the game is currently in evolution limbo, but the developer's website offers no news on the game and has been shut down since 2012, leading us to believe that the game was surely canceled.

Jumpgate Evolution aimed for ballsy gameplay, involving huge stations and ships.

The game featured a myriad of ship classes.

9. Nosgoth (2013 - 2016)

Nosgoth Open up Beta Launch Trailer

Nosgoth was a free-to-play, third-person action game set in the globe of the cult-favorite Legacy of Kain series. In it, players would have the side of either humans or vampires, pitted against each other in fast paced multiplayer matches. The humans would have conventional weapons to utilise, while the vampires could use supernatural abilities to counter them. The game was pretty innovative in what it delivered gameplay-wise, offering players completely different playstyles based on the grade they chose of which almost iv or 5 were available for each side.

If more than gameplay modes were introduced, instead of just the standard team deathmatch and if the game's programmer could offer better marketing and exposure for the game, it might take become one of the great F2P titles out there. The game however, had a foreign complimentary-to-play model coupled with the game's inability to attract a bigger crowd and went into closure in just a few years.

Crafty humans versus supernatural vampires seemed like an interesting game aspect.

The vampires could utilize brutal finishing moves on their opponents which were viscerally satisfying.

8. Stargate Worlds (2006 - 2012)

Stargate Worlds trailer

Not having a game based on the vast universe of the Stargate series, was almost a criminal offense, until Stargate Worlds was appear. The MMORPG would characteristic many worlds to explore, inhabiting a lot of the dissimilar races in the unique setting. The game would utilize the features of the Unreal 3 game engine and the developers were in close contact with 1 of the show'south directors.

Unfortunately, considering of funding and copyright issues, the game never released and their servers close down in 2012.

The game also featured the appearance of the series' most iconic team, SG-1.

Many of the series' races would also appear in the game, such as the Goa'uld.

7. Ultima X: Odyssey (? - 2004)

Ultima X Odyssey gameplay

One of the proposed sequels to one of the start MMORPGs in existence, Ultima Online, never saw the lite of day. Taking the adjacent step and moving the series to a full 3D engine and offering advanced gameplay features and abandoning the traditional "click to auto-attack" MMO mechanics of other games in the genre. The game wanted to apply the gameplay aspects that were previously only in the single-player games of the series (such as Ultima IX) and would combine them with the MMO aspect of Ultima Online.

The idea was expert, merely too advanced for its time. Unfortunately, most of the fanbase was playing Ultima Online at the time and the new title apparently didn't stick. The company instead decided to movement the entire squad to the Ultima Online project.

The game utilized the Unreal engine to provide a truly unique and beautiful setting (for its time).

The game would have no shortage of unique characters and monsters.

six. Fallout Online (2006 - 2009)

Post-obit the auction of the Fallout franchise from Interplay to Bethesda, Interplay still wondered if it could develop a Fallout MMO, despite losing any legal rights to the game.
The mapped game globe would span approximately 65,650 miles over a multitude of connected maps. It would characteristic different races with different starting locations and initial storylines for each i. Goose egg much is known about the game mechanics but apparently Interplay had all of them equally well as all of the maps already in the game.

While Interplay had secured a license for a Fallout MMO from Bethesda, the terms on how this game would become into production was entirely upwards to Bethesda, who gave Interplay a strict timeline in which they accept to make the game playable. As Interplay was falling autonomously a little later on that, then did all of their game titles. And so concluded the development of Fallout online. Becasue of unmet deadlines and financial bankruptcy, it is now in the hands of Bethesda if they e'er wish to develop a Fallout MMO.

Nevertheless the good news is there is another Fallout Online out in that location, fabricated by fans that uses the aforementioned proper noun. It uses a modified Fallout 2 engine and is currently the closest thing we take to a Fallout MMO.

It would have been an interesting world to explore with your friends...

five. World of Darkness (2008 - 2014)

World of Darkness - 2010 Animatic Trailer

Post-obit the cult success of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, White Wolf Publishing (the creators of the game), decided for a merger with CCP (Eve Online) to produce an MMORPG in their night setting. Development started in 2008 and the game would be focused on actor politics and social interaction. Another focus was on movement and motility in an attempt to capture the feeling of what information technology's similar to exist a vampire dubbing information technology a "vampire simulator".

Any the game would somewhen wait like is a mystery as very petty was known nigh the game itself, except for a trailer released in early development and some game footage. No matter what information technology would await like, it would have been interesting to see how the lore of the game fits into an MMO setting. After the downsizing of CCP's staff even so, the game never became reality, being officially canceled in 2014.

The game looks like it would accept captured the franchise'south night and gritty setting.

The clans would apparently besides take a lot of their clan powers at their disposal.

4. Everquest Side by side (2012 - 2016)

EverQuest Adjacent Worldwide Debut Gameplay Footage

Ane of the most hyped games of the past few years, Everquest Next could accept been the next WoW if it was adult to its total potential. The game promised a render to the original Everquest style of gameplay, while offer all of the features that current MMORPGs accept and more than. The game featured fully destructible environments, a bunch of unlike classes, a combat system that was based on positioning and skill rather that button mashing and reactive quests that would alter the landscape and NPCs around them based on how the players resolved them.

What went wrong with the championship is unclear every bit it got an precipitous cancellation in 2016 which non many saw coming.

Many of the game's classes would have been fused together and in that location were too a few new races.

The game engine looked very unique and featured a beautiful setting.

3. Starcraft Ghost (2002 - 2006)

StarCraft: Ghost – Gameplay Compilation (2004)

Just like Westwood did with their get-go-person adaptation of the C&C franchise, then did Blizzard endeavour to make a third-person stealth game in the Starcraft universe. The players would play Nova, the game's protagonist through a campaign ready in the Koprulu sector of the Starcraft globe. The game would feature stealth mechanics such as silent takedowns , sniping enemies from afar and using Nova's highly advanced suit, to cloak herself in the face of danger.

It also featured a circuitous combat organisation in instance stealth was not an pick and several vehicle combat and a multiplayer manner like to C&C Renegade. But equally development was taking longer than expected, and with the coming of PS3 and Xbox 360 around 2006, Blizzard canceled the game every bit it would manifestly taken as well much attempt to port it to next gen consoles.

The Ultralisk would take been a terrifying enemy.

Stepping into the footsteps of a mere human foot soldier in Starcraft looked pretty intense.

ii. Dungeon Keeper 3 (1999 - 2000)

Dungeon Keeper three Trailer

Dungeon Keeper 2 was a fantastic game in its own right. It composite genres almost seamlessly, simply it was besides mired with technical issues which kept it from beingness a massive success. At the 24-hour interval of its release, the game featured a short game trailer which foretold that we would take our hellish minions and move on to the surface where we would exercise battle with the goodly heroes of the surface realm.

The title died almost immediately after beingness announced as Bullfrog Productions started developing titles for the PS2. No thing what awaited usa in the official vision of the series, thankfully a spiritual sequel was developed and released named State of war for the Overworld which could reasonably exist called a sequel to the franchise.

We accept no thought what DK3 would have looked like, simply information technology would probably have the same wacky way.

i. Van Buren

Fallout three / Van Buren tech demo | Cancelled PC Game

Before Fallout 3 was officially released by Bethesda, in that location was some other Fallout 3 title in development past the original creators, Blackness Isle Studios, named Van Buren.
Following the critically acclaimed Fallout i and Fallout two, Interplay decided to develop a third title, which would feature a full 3D engine featuring detailed maps of the mail service-apocalyptic setting of the California wasteland.

The game's gameplay mechanics would have followed the same formula of the previous games while fusing several character skills together and providing a slightly more streamlined experience without compromising complexity. The game would also accept a lot of focus on player interaction and choice-and-consequence would exist an important part.
The game was canceled in 2003 because of several fundamental employees of Black Isle being laid off, in the last few years of the company. A tech demo was eventually leaked on the internet at some point which looked fairly impressive and we can only dream how the fully released title would look like.

The game captured the "beauty" of the wasteland the same style that the previous Fallouts did.

The plough-based gainsay was a straight continuation of the one-time Fallouts.

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