Raven Blade [GameCube Beta UNRELEASED Trailer!]

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July 19, 2001 - Retro Studios has officially terminated its GameCube RPG Raven Blade and laid off some 26 people formerly working on the project. The decision was made to kill the title so that the Texas-based studio could focus all of its effort on Metroid Prime, which Nintendo has stated is its top priority.

Raven Blade, shown for the first time at the Electronics Entertainment Expo 2001 in full-motion video form, had been underway by Retro Studios since shortly after the firm's inception. The title, which pitted players as a knight in a post-apocalyptic world filled with demonic enemies and fire-breathing dragons, was one of the first games the studio began work on.

"Retro, along with Nintendo, has decided its most effective approach as a videogame developer is to focus on Metroid and give it the attention the franchise deserves," Nintendo told IGNcube this morning. "To do that, they refined staffing and are laying off 26 people, mainly the team that worked on Raven Blade. Raven Blade is now cancelled."

http://cube.ign.com/articles/096/096761p1.html

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[therockdude94]

why would this game not be realased? it looks freakin awesome!

[humanice2]

look at that in 00:16, these are the same movements as the space pirates used in prime 1.

[gamercat86]

Nice lighting for a gamecube tech demo. It would be awesome if they would revive this for the Wii U. The character models look pretty good.

[jimmypubeface23]

no offence to donkey kong "2d" wii, but id seriously prefer this over it

[novaenergy2]

i need retros contact, i need to remind them about thisgame and tell them to MAKE IT AGAIN

[VebseLover]

This game could accompany SS as a great Motion Plus game, so that it would be more attractive to buy that expansion and we could have more games experiementing with the technology. Look at what Retro crafted with simple Wii controls in MP3.

[VebseLover]

The Lava Monster was probably what inspired Thardus.

This is why Retro should have a try with the Zelda license. Aonuma has had it for long enough now, and we need the action of the first TP trailer back in a final Zelda product.

[Ipax85]

Atleast they had very good reason to cancel this. Metroid Prime is great. :)

[WiriamuN]

A main protagonist with a beard isn't something you see everyday.

[wishingW3L]

why is that there is always someone saying that a cancelled game is awesome? I mean, this looks a piece of shit, no wonder they cancelled this turd. Not even with a CGI trailer could they make the game look appealing.

[Polaf3456]

@therockdude94 To make production space for metroid prime xP

[larsbergtube]

This could have been Nintendos Devil may Cry/GoW. Its sad this never got realesed. Retro had the right ideas.