Born September 20, 2002 - Died March 24, 2006
Some info here is from Team Xbox and The Wacko's BBQ. Some of the original videos can be found at Gamespot as well.
This game was in development for 5 years. It started out as an Xbox exclusive and looked very promising. It was originally scheduled to be released in late 2003. It was delayed multiple times to Fall 2006 before finally dying recently. Along its development life it basically led to the closure of Nihilistic Studios and the purchase of Swinging Ape Studios by Blizzard. At several points it had good screenshots, trailers and even playable versions. At one point during its development it looked like an almost finished and polished game. Somewhere along it was totally scrapped and started over again. It then expanded to being a GameCube, PS2 and Xbox game. This to me seems like it would only serve to lower the games quality and delay it even further. It is too bad that such a good premise had to die. I can't even imagine how much money was wasted on it, not to mention magazine and web articles. It was on the cover of Xbox magazine at least once if not more. It was shown publicly at E3 in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and probably behind closed doors in 2002. I guess Blizzard has money to lose and would rather not be associated with a questionable game.
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