A video showing a cancelled Streets of Rage reboot by Ruffian Games (the developer behind Crackdown 2) has been leaked:
A former employee of Ruffian Games confirmed that this is real, though I'm not sure if this is actual gameplay footage or a mock up video made to pitch the game to Sega.
EDIT: Replaced the video with one that has sound, which was uploaded by the studio's boss. Here is the description of the video with more info about this:
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Here are some scenes from a playable prototype. It was something we built very rapidly and represents pre-pre-pre-pre (lots of pres) pre-Alpha quality. Even so it has a certain charm
What's the story behind it all? Like a lot of developers we work on a lot of different prototypes, they're just not usually shown in public. In this case an older version of the same video was leaked last week which came as a bit of a surprise if I'm honest. As it had no sound I thought there wouldn't be any harm sharing a version with audio.
Beyond that there's not a lot more I can say unfortunately
Enjoy
gaz
This post has been edited by TimmiT: 08 December 2012 - 01:33 PM
I'm not sure updating Streets of Rage with modern stylings would have worked, anyway. Street justice is forever entwined with late 80s early 90s in my opinion.
It doesn't look outstandingly awful, but yeah, it needs to look like it's straight out of the late 80s.
It's also very dark. Part of Streets of Rage's success is that it manages to feel dark without actually using dark colours - this attempt reminds me more of Batman: Arkham City
I think it looks amazing! It somehow manages to look fresh, while still looking remarkably like a Streets of Rage game. I would have thought that a 3D SoR game would suck, but I'd buy this in a heartbeat. Shame it got shitcanned, they missed a trick there.
Here are some scenes from a playable prototype. It was something we built very rapidly and represents pre-pre-pre-pre (lots of pres) pre-Alpha quality. Even so it has a certain charm
What's the story behind it all? Like a lot of developers we work on a lot of different prototypes, they're just not usually shown in public. In this case an older version of the same video was leaked last week which came as a bit of a surprise if I'm honest. As it had no sound I thought there wouldn't be any harm sharing a version with audio.
Beyond that there's not a lot more I can say unfortunately
Enjoy
gaz
This post has been edited by TimmiT: 05 December 2012 - 02:08 PM
What do you guys think? Honestly, it doesn't really give me that SOR vibe for some reason. Not like the canceled 1999 build of SOR4. Here's a video for comparison: https://www.youtube....h?v=j4hs0omE4zg
Discuss.
Edit: For some reason, I can't post up the Youtube players on here..
This post has been edited by StriCNYN3: 05 December 2012 - 11:08 PM
Just looked up Beast Rider
If you mean by sheer generic-ness, then I'll agree.
This seems like it would've been one of those "trying-to-be-grimdark-and-serious, me too" throw away titles. It just doesn't scream SOR to me. Maybe it's better off in its current status.
Maybe if they didn't make it so dark and have it more rooted to the sprite artwork, nothing for me to complain about except for Jack, wasn't too impressed with him.
Seriously how many times has a new SOR game been in the works before being cancelled? Just have Ancient make a new SOR game or have the guys who did the new Shinobi game make it, these cancelled next installments are starting to become a running gag.
As far as fan games go, me and another guy were working on a 3D Streets of Rage sequel, have figured the whole combat and gameplay system. We even have some videos and gameplay stuff but we lack the modelling horsepower to make the whole project.
You could always make the game as it would appear of it were made on the 32x or Saturn, and just use crude models while crafting an appealing retro aesthetic. Alternatively release what you have and see of you can get other people on board.
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