I've just heard of this. GRIN, developers of various games incluiding Bionic Comando for digital platforms, Terminator Salvation or Wanted, closed down in 2009. But what has been just leaked is that in their Barcelona ( Spain) studio, they were working on several games who were cancelled when the studio closed down. One of them was a Streets of Rage remake, headed for digital platforms ( XBLA and PSN, I imagine), that SEGA had asked them to do. Other cancelled games were a Strider reboot, some Final Fantasy game and a Silent Hill title... There are some Streets of rage concept arts and screencaps, as there looks like there was a playable build made. source: http://www.vg247.com/2012/02/21/report-grin-was-working-on-a-strider-reboot-and-streets-of-rage-remake-before-shuttering/ , original source in spanish http://www.anaitgames.com/articulos/cronica-cierre-proyectos-cancelados-grin
Ah snap! Someone from Sega Legal must have thought that that SORR fan game was infringing on this cancelled project, and preceded to asked BomberGames (name?) to take their project down!
I dunno. I think the last thing we need is another instalment that might sully everything anterior by association. This stuff doesn't look too impressive. In fact, it looks like a fangame. A bad one! So, are people thinking that about the only good fangame, SoRR, might have been cancelled for this? There lies a lesson whose irony risks obscuring its message. Or something.
Almost all games look like horrible fangames when they're early in development, and judging from the screenshots, this one looks so early I doubt they ever made more than one screen worth of gameplay... assuming there was any gameplay and not just a player and enemies that can only wander around and not attack.
Yeah, this game looks so early in development it could have been on the dreamcast. If it had more time, it may have been a good game.
Honestly, after playing GRIN's other reboot of a series "Bionic Commando" which came out in 2009 which was incredibly underrated yet amazing. I am pretty damn sure they could handle a Streets of Rage remake without any problems.
Excellent point! I (and others) need to read more better. :v: Edit: Then again, that doesn't make it certain that this had nothing to do with the C&D. It probably didn't; but it's possible that v5 was C&Dd because Sega had renewed the property, regardless of its cancellation (v4 probably flew under the radar because it came out before the remake was started).
Yes, basically, so maybe even if this remake is cancelled, we still might see a remake, they probably asked other developer to do one.
Isn't this already the fourth attempt at a SOR sequel that got canceled? (Saturn, Dreamcast, some 2004 attempt, and now this one)
Saturn one was retooled into a released game on other platforms, so IDK... but yes, we're still at that point
I wasn't talking about that one, supposedly Sega at some point was working on a SOR Saturn game that was 2D-like - basically like the previous games but with a few 3D effects.
Then that would make FIVE X_x Yeah, this series hasn't really been.. liked by the management, I guess?
