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Leaked Footage Of (Probably Dead) Midway Shooter

Amidst all the layoffs and turmoil, you never know when a weird game is just going to burp up out of the void and make itself known. This is such a game.

It's not too often that you get to see footage of a game that was canned before it was announced. But someone, somewhere is always prototyping something. And if those someones end up getting laid off, well, you never know what's going to happen to that footage. Cue Unseen 64, which tossed up this clip a couple of days ago and claimed that it's footage of a Midway shooter. Destructoid picked up on it this morning, as well.

  


Looks like it's relatively modern Midway tech, so it's probably based on whatever updates the company made to the Unreal Engine for Stranglehold. Normally, the existence of yet another canceled game wouldn't be that newsworthy. But somebody dropped us a tip that had the word "Robotron" in it. Was this demo supposed to be the start of a new game in the Robotron line? It's got clear moments of humans being saved, which was a key part of the original game. But those don't look like evil enemy robots to me. Weird. Either way, we'll probably never get to find out.
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It's not too often that you get to see footage of a game that was canned before it was announced. But someone, somewhere is always prototyping something. And if those someones end up getting laid off, well, you never know what's going to happen to that footage. Cue Unseen 64, which tossed up this clip a couple of days ago and claimed that it's footage of a Midway shooter. Destructoid picked up on it this morning, as well.

  


Looks like it's relatively modern Midway tech, so it's probably based on whatever updates the company made to the Unreal Engine for Stranglehold. Normally, the existence of yet another canceled game wouldn't be that newsworthy. But somebody dropped us a tip that had the word "Robotron" in it. Was this demo supposed to be the start of a new game in the Robotron line? It's got clear moments of humans being saved, which was a key part of the original game. But those don't look like evil enemy robots to me. Weird. Either way, we'll probably never get to find out.
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Robotron in 3D?  I'm there.

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Wasn't this the game that "looked better then Gears of War 2!"? 

I can swear I heard that quote on a 1up podcast sometime in december.
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Looks like it had potential, perhaps some other company will pick up the IP in the future.

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That's totally a Stranglehold-themed build of the Unreal Engine.

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this game look like it could be really fun if they could've stuck with it and improve on it, but too bad.

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Eh...maybe if it had a lot of work done on it...I mean obviously it was very early in development...but even then it still looks like just a typical shooter.  I guess there isn't a enough there to really make a sound judgement on it...but I'm not going to be losing any sleep if it is canned.

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id play it.

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Pre-Alpha much?

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rofl looks like more fun than too human

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Edited By mrfluke
it has the same running animation as stranglehold
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I actually think that game could be awesome with some time and effort.

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I love how when he slows time and zooms in, its stranglehold cross hair and sounds. neat.
The blue thing on the dudes back is a lot like Issac's blue thing in dead space.

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It is almost identical to Stranglehold. From the crosshair, to that "precison shot" and the camera view.

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i would of give it a try

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Yeah that's very early, so early it used Stranglehold death voices as placeholders!

in that state it almost looks like a Stranglehold mod.

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sci fi zombies?  I would totally play a game like that

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Looks pretty neat, though It's probably for the best if it's dead.

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Eh, nothing special.  But if that was just the beginning...

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Ah, that actually looked like it would've been good if they just tweaked the Gameplay to where it doesn't play exactly like Stranglehold and fixed bugs.

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Unlimited ammo is NOT the way to go these days...

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looks like stranglehold

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I see some Robotron in there.  Maybe even some Berserk.

The bad video makes it look like Pit Fighter video.

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Looks like it could have gone somewhere, maybe it will pop up sometime in the near future.

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Cyborg zombies?

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I liked robotron. But a modern Sinistar would be awesome.

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Huh to bad it won't come out.

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That would actually look pretty cool if it was polished a ton. Has a Left 4 Dead quality to it.

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I wish I could "unsee" this game.

ba da pish

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This is obviously just Stranglehold with a futuristic skin over it...

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Looks a lot like Stranglehold

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I was waiting for him to slide down a rail or something. Why were those zombies keeping hostages?

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looks interesting but it also looks like it had a long way to go before it could be shipped which isn't happening now.

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Snapstacle said:
"I liked robotron. But a modern Sinistar would be awesome."
THQ made an unofficial sequel to Sinistar called Sinistar Unleashed that had nothing to do with the arcade game except for the fact that it shared the name, but you should still look it up.

But onto this game. Maybe with a little more time in development, content, and polish, maybe and I know this could be a push, maybe this could have been the game that Stranglehold should have been.
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OH SHIT, IT'S ZOMBIE CYBORGS!!!

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Between the zombie things and those lights on the dude's back?

ITT: Left 4 Dead Space

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DO NOT WANT.

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Too bad, with a decent cover system and tweaked controls (looks a bit floaty), this looks kind of promising.

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Kush said:
"This is obviously just Stranglehold with a futuristic skin over it..."
It has stuff that seemingly could have developed into something quite unique.

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Everyone already beat me to Stranlehold comments.

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I would have bought a new Robotron on the Stranglehold tech. Cool to see that clip.

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Cool, he shot things with two pistols, dove to the side, and slow motion sniped a zombie. Stranglehold 2 perhaps?

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I get the Stranglehood thing but does no-one else kinda see Dead-Space elements? Zombies lol. But also the bar on the character's back, which seems alot like the health system in Dead Space.

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Robotron?

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Looks EXACTLY like Stranglehold.  It sinched it when he did the focus targeting move to take out that monster chasing the poor old guy.

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would have needed tons of polish, plus the enemies early in the video that die from 1 little shot seems kinda boring gameplay-wise to me.

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It might be due to the game not being finished yet but this game screams to me as low budget saver game.  Bet it was planned to be released at $40.

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The game looks like it was cancelled due to suckage!!! I still can't get over how crappy that game looked... LET IT BURN!!!

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JuggaloAcidman said:
"The game looks like it was cancelled due to suckage!!! I still can't get over how crappy that game looked... LET IT BURN!!!"
It was a Prototype... There was no level design or finalized A.I and even the animations hadn't been implemented properly. That's like the very VERY first build of a game, to see if the concept works.