10 Cancelled Video Games That Could Have Been Masterpieces

This list takes a look at 10 cancelled video games that for one reason or another had their lives cut short before they began. With unique concepts or incredible ideas on how to rejuvenate existing franchises, these cancelled titles really had the potential for brilliance.

[XiNarutoUzumaki]

I didn't know The getaway 3 got cancelled :O

[NukaCola]

Still sad Lionhead's BC never will see the light of day.

[Relientk77]

I would have loved to play The Lord Of The Rings: The White Council

[Gatsu]

inSane could've been excellent survival horror, which I would like to play. There's never enough games from that genre in my opinion and Guillermo del Toro working with that project was a nice bonus.

[Summons75]

Games get cancelled for a reason, generally that reason is they were the complete opposite of a master piece and whoever was funding the project saw it was going down a grim path.

[Strangelover]

I wanted to say THE LAST GUARDIAN but then realized that it is in development and will come out maybe next year

[ThichQuangDuck]

You can say the Last Guardian....Ha we can hope it will come out,but at this point I no longer have that child like excitement I did when it was first announced

[CloudyAero]

That star wars game looked really good, wow.

[98xpresent]

Star Wars 1313 looked amazing .

[VealParmHero]

I really don't see why they wouldn't put a new studio on the project. I guess disney didn't have video games as a top priority when making its first moves with the IP? Here's hoping we either see that game in some form down the line, or something very close, because that s*** sounded incredible.

[PrinceOfAllSaiyans]

The Last Gaurdian

[wastelander75]

Faith and a .45, was looking forward to that one.

[CloudRap]

Apparently there was supposed to be a horror themed cod that never made it what a shame

[Rimeskeem]

I wanted to play Star Wars 1313 sooo badly :-(

[killagram]

Call it nostalgic but I think this would've been an incredible game if it was ever released ("BC" by Peter Molyneux) http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[OUROSMAG]

The Getaway 3 and 1313 are the only ones I really really really wanted.

[Chard]

Donkey Kong Racing
Resident Evil 3.5
Chrono Resurrection
Star Wars Attack Squadrons
Star Wars Battlefront 3 (by Free Radical)
Beyond Good & Evil 2

[mydyingparadiselost]

Aww man, why'd you have to throw Chrono Resurrection into this. Now I have to spend the rest of my day crying and watching the trailer......Again.....

[crazysammy]

I played Starcraft Ghost (at the GameStop Managers conference in Texas around 2006 or 2007 don't remember) and it was really bad. Not just bad but almost unplayable. I hate seeing that game on these lists. It wasn't made by Blizzard and Nihilistic Software was really making a terrible game. I'm glad it got cancelled.

I remember seeing the Blizzard booth, with 8 Xbox systems networked together and not one person playing it. I should have known when I saw that.

[mydyingparadiselost]

Wow, that's actually really awesome, you don't run across people that have actually played a canceled game. I've always wondered if it was just too much for the systems at the time, you know, lots of ambition and none of the power needed to make it possible. Since you played it do you think it could be worth trying to make again for the current gen or was it just so much of a mess that even the idea was flawed?

[crazysammy]

I think the problem was the developer not the idea. Blizzard could make an awesome game and the idea was sound. However Nihilistic was yanked off the project because they could not see the vision to completion. I know it changed devs at that point (dont remember which) but I think the game was too far gone to be flipped around. I will admit the first time seeing a battlecruiser flying overhead in a 3rd person view was pretty stunning.

[Moe-Gunz]

Eight Days

[HugoDrax]

That Star Wars 1313 looked like good fun :-)