Daniel Thomas
01-24-2003, 05:00 AM
Fans of Sega's Streets of Rage have been screaming for a new game for years. Well, it turns out that our prayers were nearly answered. Tokiopia.com this week posted several movie files from an early work-in-progress Streets of Rage that was planned for the Dreamcast.
According to the site, the original creators of SOR (including Yuzo Koshiro) had begun work on a new DC version. This early footage was shown to Sega of America, whose people knew absolutely nothing about one of its most famous franchises; they turned down the project in favor of Zombie's Revenge and Dynamite Deka. Good grief.
As for the videos themselves, what's there looks really good. I can't tell if the game would have been fully 3-D, or be locked in a 2-D plane ala NiGHTS. There's also a couple clips of fighting in a first-person view, which looks interesting.
Anyway, you can find everything at http://www.tokyopia.com/articles.asp?articlesid=38
p.s. Those of you who remember gaming fanzines will recognize one of the writers on the site: Chris Kohler, who wrote Videozone in CT. Turns out he moved to Japan to get married, and is currently writing a book about Japan's videogame scene. Glad to see he's doing well!
According to the site, the original creators of SOR (including Yuzo Koshiro) had begun work on a new DC version. This early footage was shown to Sega of America, whose people knew absolutely nothing about one of its most famous franchises; they turned down the project in favor of Zombie's Revenge and Dynamite Deka. Good grief.
As for the videos themselves, what's there looks really good. I can't tell if the game would have been fully 3-D, or be locked in a 2-D plane ala NiGHTS. There's also a couple clips of fighting in a first-person view, which looks interesting.
Anyway, you can find everything at http://www.tokyopia.com/articles.asp?articlesid=38
p.s. Those of you who remember gaming fanzines will recognize one of the writers on the site: Chris Kohler, who wrote Videozone in CT. Turns out he moved to Japan to get married, and is currently writing a book about Japan's videogame scene. Glad to see he's doing well!