Monday, September 17, 2012

Pre-Starfox Adventure Video Appears Online

Before Starfox Adventure released back in 2002, there was another game known as 'Dinosaur Planet' which was cancelled in development. But what was so special about this game is that all game play footage was lost for 10 years. Now, in 2012, video of the game emerged in a hour long video on YouTube. This is a great example of games changing in mid-development. Starfox features the fictional fox known as 'Fox McCloud' and his team of highly skilled team of animal specialists. It is said that the game plays similarly to 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'. In a E3 interview with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, it was commented that it is weird to throw Fox in a game with magic, swords, and dinosaurs only becuase Fox is a humanoid fox. Developer RARE was known for it's heavyweight games such as 'Perfect Dark', 'Banjo-Kazooie', and 'Donkey Kong 64'. But it was a big leap for RARE to create this game. Eventually the project was redesigned into 'Starfox: Adventure'. But when the game was cancelled, all videos of game play were lost. They were thought lost until YouTube user IOnEIFalcon uploaded the hour long video. So it seems that what is lost can be found.

1 comment:

  1. This game looks interesting for the time it was developed. I would probably have bought it!

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