Eight Days Looked Insanely Good, So Why Was It Cancelled?

SCRAWL: "Eight Days is cancelled. We know that. However, before it's cancellation, we've barley seen any footage on the game, leaving a lot of us wondering what it would have been like. Jim Jagger, 3D animator for the game, has released a demo reel containing footage of Eight Days, and boy did it look good."

[jaffa_cake]

dam u sony
eye toy over this
ps3 is not a nintendo wii its a console for real gamers.

[CEO OF N4G]

I hope they start work on 8days and getaway3 again as soon as that crapy eye pet sh1t is finshed.I was so pissed of that they cancelled those 2games because of eye pet.

[The Matrix]

Yeah why did they cancel the game? I mean...it wasn't a week game. It was 8 days.

[chaosatom]

Is Superb.

[Milky Joe]

SCEE? Are you actually trying to destroy the PS3? You came to the conclusion that a game that allowed children to spaz about with a fluffy rat and draw little cars for it to play with was a better investment of time and money than a game that looks, let's be honest here Ladies and Gentlemen, F*CKING AMAZING? Seriously, the casual games can come when the PS3 is 5 years old and people are revving up for the PS4, right now we need the quality games that gamers (you know, the people who actually buy the PS3) will enjoy. Things like Eyepet will be completely doomed if they are released while the PS3 is still at the price it is.

You know what, SCEE? Your turn is over now, it's my turn to run the company, watch me make sensible decisions and maybe you can follow suit when i's your turn again...

[Mainman]

I was really looking forward to 8 days. It really sucks it got canceled. I hope they will realise that they made a mistake and start development of 8 days again.

[Sam Fisher]

music was cool.. anyone knows the name of song?

[Milky Joe]

'Express Yourself' maybe...? All I know was that it was on GTA San Andreas...

[Bodhi]

"Express Yourself" from N.W.A.

Good song, good times. :)

[hay]

Wait, what? Those animations are incredible!

[Elimin8]

WHY?????? Me still thinks they're working on it secretly.. They just can't come that far show us all that good stuff then cancel. Nuh uh no way Jose'.

[The Matrix]

Somebody copied a lot of splinter cell moves. :s

[Doppy]

It looks like Uncharted meets MGS. This game looked pretty good, and it shouldn't have been canceled. Hopefully it will get picked up again and come out 2010.

[Bodhi]

@Matrix

Jim Jagger animated the Splinter Cell series, and it really shows.

Jim Jagger really is the God of animations, I just played Splinter Cell and it reminded me how amazing the animations really were. So organic.

Now I want Splinter Cell Convictions...

[jwatt]

E3 2009: Sony announces Eight days is back in production and is schedule for a holiday release, that would be nice! Seriously Sony needs to bring this game back it looks fresh and out of all the games coming out next year Eight days would be my most anticipated title behind GOW and Killzone.

[BobDog]

BRING BACK EIGHT DAYS

hopefully they game isnt outdated WHEN they restart work lol

[drdistracto707]

bravo!

you get a bubble now

[King_many_layers]

I must admit I'm strangely not all that bothered by the fact it was cancelled.

all you guys saying how eye pet is so bad and stuff, it just looks that way to us as we miss out on what looked like a really smooth slick game. To sony Eye pet is doing what the PS2 did. it's capturing the Casual gamer and they need to because those people care not for Eight days and Killzone, they want things that are cheap and fun.

That's not why I'm not bothered though, I find myself not bothered because I know that when they come back to this game or any game like it, they will have hugely better knowledge of the system. So I'd be expecting this game to look as good as uncharted, with even better animations and wider environments. I have no problems waiting, though if sony was to announce at Gamers Day that they're picking the title back up and they're making it a forfront game, I'd have no problems with that.

[GameDev]

more fanboy obfuscation, these games WERE NOT CANCELLED!!!!!

They were SHELVED so Sony could dedicated more developers to finishing Killzone 2. Stupid fanboys never look into the facts.

[pixelsword]

...Jim Jagger says so himself on his website under his explanation of his work on Eight Days.

http://www.jimjagger.com/Pa...

I don't know for certain myself if it was canceled permanently (as I have no insider info on that game), but if it wasn't, I can see why...

- They needed to finish Killzone 2 because most likely Killzone 2's engine will be powering games like Eight Days.

- I say that because if you look at 1:10-1:17 on the Eight Days clip for this article, the movement of the body looks a lot like the dynamic cover that was used in this Killzone 2 demonstration.

(starts at 2:55)

http://aigamedev.com/videos...

[Kaneda]

It looks great.. but its repetitive. You will loose interest pretty quickly.

[acedoh]

that has been cancelled get so much attention. I do hope SONY listens to their fanbase and realizes how much people people really want this game. The concept and gameplay seem top notch and a game like this could be a sure seller if it's done right. I don't think SONY junked this game. I just believe they moved it down the priority list.

[DreamcastFanboy]

Damn that looked good but i thought it was put on hold not cancelled?

[Kouzmich]

I think so too , that this was put on hold not canceled , they just needed more people to finish HOME. I hope when HOME is done and that EYE PET is out they will return to this and GETAWAY. Because they will need more games like these after KILLZONE2 is done.

[ultimolu]

It wasn't canceled. It was on hold to allocate resources. Don't know where people get canceled from. :/

[MiloGarret]

Yeas were did they all get that from?

Umm, here?: http://www.jimjagger.com/Pa...

"Eight Days was a coop based third person shooter that was set to be released in the summer of 2009. Unfortunately Sony cancelled the game in the summer of 2008."

[Captain Tuttle]

Hard to argue with that link Milo

[thor]

Looked VERY early in development to me. They were still toying around with the basic mechanics of the game. It looks like it had potential; but then it would have been a couple of years off at the earliest. It's obvious they only just started development and that trailer from years ago was pre-rendered by some other studio.

I'm sad that it was cancelled, but it was too early in development to tell whether it would be a great game - and we wouldn't have seen it for a while anyway.

[yog-sothot]

Exactly what I was thinking. Let's try not to get excited too soon by a target video. Hopefully the game will be released someday and will be awesome, that's all I can say. In the meantime, there are plenty of other great games to play.

[Kush_Reaper]

Really sadens me when i think about eight days and the getaway getting the chop in order for other eyetoy games to get more development time. Hopefully these two games will return to production sooner rather than never.

PLAY BEYOND NOT BEHIND

[thor]

SCE London Studios have dropped the ball this gen.

Singstar PS3 - Delayed, no bluetooth mics, singstore took a while to get going.
Eight Days - Cancelled
The Getaway - Cancelled
Home - Delayed, missing features, still not in open beta

EyePet - Now this one's too early to call. But look at their PS3 track record so far...

[Kush_Reaper]

They havent been the most efficient this gen. But i guess im just a hardcore dude and would rather prefer those too games than eyetoy games. Guess its just my opinion, but it is still good to get different games for the more casual gamers also. More innovative titles are welcome.

PLAY BEYOND NOT BEHIND

[na2ru1]

Just like any other movie/game trailers.

But how does an awesome trailer relate to how good the actual game might be?

My guess is, after a brainstorm session and research, Sony figured that this may not fit in or set itself apart with the already demanding market. This game theme/story may not have had the formular to shine, so therfore, Sony may have thought of it as economically not worthwhile.

Getaway however. was looking forward too.

[Johnny Cullen]

I really wan't this game back Sony =(

[Milky Joe]

Hi JC! How'ss life knowing you betrayed PS going? XD :P :)

[Milky Joe]

That's PS the clan btw, before people get the wrong idea.

[pixelsword]

...What happened to make him betray that clan?

[Milky Joe]

He abandoned us. In our hour of need, we were there calling him to help but he just walked away...

Basically, he left recently and I was giving him a prod about it. :D

[incogneato]

no matter how good it looks it will get scored low because reviewers hate ps3

[Bodhi]

You forgot to add that Microsoft pays everyone off.

Oh and you forgot to add /conspiracy

[Firstkn1ghT]

and still with the excuses...

[Bodhi]

Odd... I thought everyone caught onto my sarcasm, apparently not, as Firstknight was disagreed upon.

I was being sarcastic people... sheesh.

[CrippleH]

Everybody disagrees with him because they know he's just here to troll like always.

[ultimolu]

Damn straight.

Watch Killzone 2 get a 60/100 because it wasn't innovative enough and didn't redefine FPS. :/

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Excuses?

You obviously haven't seen the scores for LBP.

It's at a 95 because Metacritic gave an 80 to a review that was praising the game. The site didn't even give a score, but Metacritic decided it should get an 80.

Explain to me again how that makes any logical sense...

[CEO OF N4G]

Give me a break.If a reviewer give a 360 game a crap score u say it deserve it but when its the ps3 turn u say they hate the ps3!!!

Reviews are someone opinion and not every ones opinion is the same as yours so just deal with it.Im gettig sick of all this reviews bash ps3 games all the time.Have u ever stop to think that they just did not like the game!!!!!!!

Not every one will give ur fav game a 10/10 so just live with it,and if u let reviews affect ur gaming life then ur a dumb gamer, play the game if u like it keep it if u dont like it then trade it in for credit or another game.

[Harry190]

The graphics, cover system and animation completely destroys Gears. The bots can breathe a sigh of relief that it's not coming out.

[Aclay]

I'm guessing that Sony wanted to focus more on games with Multiplayer and that may have led to the cancellation of Eight Days (and The Getaway) because they were both going to be Single Player.

Sony also might have looked at the sales trends of other Single Player only games like Heavenly Sword or Rachet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction that were on the PS3, and after seeing that it took Heavenly Sword a pretty long while to reach a million, Rachet had been out for a pretty long while too and hasn't sold a million yet.... and after looking at those sales, Sony probably decided not to invest TONS of money into a brand new IP that only had Single Player gameplay that might have only sold like 1.5 million copies or something.

I'm more of a Single Player gamer myself, but there's a lot of people that don't even buy games if there's no multiplayer in them at all and just rent them. However, if a Single Player game is good, I will buy them.

[Jackobinen]

I'm a "singleplayer gamer" too and I'm almost the opposite of what you described. I almost never buy multiplayer-only games like Socom or Warhawk but I often buy singleplayer-only games. I think its something about depending on other people to achieve the best experience. In singleplayer you always know what you get. There are so many things that can get ruined because of other people in multiplayer. They can leave in the middle of the game, they can grief etc. At least thats my opinion.

[Cenobia]

On the other hand, multiplayer can give you some of the most epic moments in a game. Other human players are unpredictable and smarter than NPCs. They can cause pretty awesome things to happen.

Eight days looks like it could be a pretty awesome multiplayer game. If they do revive it, I hope they add that feature in (as long as it isn't tacked on, and doesn't take anything away from single player). Personally, it is hard to justify the purchase of a single player only game, unless its epic or has some sort of replay value.

[joebahrjoebahr]

mabye the developer bailed cause they seen the future of ps3.

[JRaptor]

lol, yeah sony bailed out on their own console, its just that much of a failure

Edit: /sarcasm
sort of defeats the purpose by adding that in :(

[spectyre]

that explains Lionshead studios?

[Cenobia]

I'm going to reach through the internet and choke you to death...

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

Do you write papers like that too?

"mabye the developer bailed cause they seen the future of ps3."

Let me paraphrase for you:

Maybe the developer bailed because they saw the future of the PS3.

Do an English assignment for once in your life. That was pitiful.

Also, the PS3 is doing very well. Where is your basis?

[40cal]

This game looks like it had a lot of potential. The way that the people in the game moved around looked awesome. Could be a very fun cover mechanic, I just hope that we see this or something like it in the near future. The animations where also very good looking.

[Crazywhitie]

I wanted this game so bad, After that gas station Gameplay I was hooked.. I tried to reserve it but they never would,, then this.. Sad days

[joebahrjoebahr]

all you ps3tards are rediculous. " resistance 2 / LBP are going to end the console war their sooooo good'

retards to say the least... LBP sold like 10 copies and resistance is mediocre

[Gaara_724]

only sold like 10 copies please find a page that says lbp only sold 10 copies please i would love to see that since i know 12 poeple who have it there goes the 10 copies part but please look for the info for me

[xlx-russ_92]

u r an xbot that RROD

[drdistracto707]

your not calling us fanboys are you, because if you are my friend, you are the biggest hypocrite on this godforsaken site

[C_SoL]

I really hope it was put on hold.

[40cal]

Why the hell did you have to start this crap again. Can we get back on topic. I want to see what you guys/gals think about the video.

[JRaptor]

Obviously it's an early video showing the intended direction of the game rather than any progress that they made. It looks like it had potential to be a decent game and would be a shame if they don't go back to it in some form or another after freeing up some developers from home.

[YonasJonas]

They should have kept 8 Days, and canceled this Home garbage instead.

[peedie16]

dude I swear they better use that cover system in uncharted 2

[Rob0g0rilla]

Looks like they were further in development then I thought.

I'd love to try it out. The gameplay looks pretty smooth.

[Reibooi]

Yeah it's a shame 8 Days was canceled and We will never understand the reasoning behind it. I mean the game looked incredible. Makes no sense to me. Perhaps we can hope that sometime in the future they may bring it back and finish it but I won't hold my breath.

[XxRoosterxX]

I remember a news story saying that 8 days and getaway 3 were put on hold because sony needed more help on HOME. I'm pretty sure if this

[Danja]

thats what I remember reading also....8 days seemed very interesting...the Getaway 3 was looking quite good also..

[CrippleH]

That was part CGI anyways. Don't be fooled thinking that's how it looks like.

I don't know why people gave a dam about a game like this that has only 1 trailer that is part CGI.

[she00win99]

i think it not cgi, here the demo

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[drdistracto707]

its realtime

[Magic_The_Celt]

jesus eight days looked AWESOME

[Magic_The_Celt]

R.I.P eight days.

[ReTarDedFisHy]

Hopefully what they said was BS and they'll continue production of Eight Days and Getaway III after PetEye or whatever the hell it's called.

[drdistracto707]

is anyone even going to buy that game anyway, I dont even have a ps eye, dont plan on getting one either

[Daves]

Old news to me, was cancled over a year ago. I used to work at Ninja Theory in the same building as Sony Cambridge... you should have asked :)

[Ashton]

and do you think they will get back to it when they are done with the whole eyepet crap?

[elorm9]

The cover system looks more versatile than what I've seen in other games... This might have been a contender with Gears

[jack who]

tech demo tech demo tech demo tech demo tech demo tech demo tech demo tech demo tech demo tech demo tech demo flopzone tech demo

[LarVanian]

This is a perfect example of an Xbot malfunctioning after RROD.

[xlx-russ_92]

LOL

[jack who]

powerd by teh cell

[doshey]

u want to be powered by a foot up the ass

[anubis12]

man i cant wait for eye pet.

[creeping judas]

when I bought my PS3 recently, I was really looking forward to Getaway3. I had played the 1st one my brother in laws PS2, and I loved the game!!!

And yes 8 days looked pretty damn hot too!!!

[she00win99]

i think they cancel 8 days because uncharted 2 is coming and it will be better, i hope..

[Alcohog]

It will be back. I think it is just on hold. This and the Getaway because of money issues within the studio.

[buck nasty]

I would guess that the developers had reasons for canning this....but DAMN!! The animations look FANTASIC!!

[cyclindk]

Looked almost as smooth (animation wise) as Uncharted, and it never even got off the ground; maybe there's a chance it could get picked back up...

[DJ]

Superb animation and cover mechanics though. It's important to remember that even if a game is cancelled, the resulting ideas and technology aren't abandoned.

Single-player only titles simply aren't selling as well as titles with both Single and Multiplayer. It made sense for Eight Days and Getaway (in their current forms) to be cancelled in favor of HOME and Eyepet, which looks to be a huge hit by the way.

[Vybz88]

They should include online co-op if there wasn't any multiplayer. Could have integrated the co-op with deep content to compensate for no multiplayer.

[smurfie4]

I was disappointed more that they canceled the getaway. I was looking forward to the game but oh well.

[thehitman]

They put the project on hold as well as some others to concentrate on some other things. Im sure after KZ2 is out the way and etc they will start resuming projects like 8days.

[DMasta718]

I'm pretty certain it's on hold. I'm guessing the plan is to release Getaway 3 and 8 days later in the PS3's life span than now. Can't give us all awesome games in one shot.

[Figboy]

because Killzone 2 needed the help, as did HOME, and developing EyePet for the casual market was cheaper (think about it, by the time EyePet released for the PS3 sometime in holiday 2009, the price of the PS3 will be down to $300 or LESS. a $250 PS3, maybe bundled with an EyeToy and EyePet, would sell quite a bit to parents looking for the next cute thing to get their kids for Christmas, after buying them a Wii this year).

anyway, there's a LOT of games coming out in the next year. i'm not going to lament the loss of two. my plate for 2009 is looking rather full, and who knows, maybe now that KZ2 is done, and EyePet is more of a side project, the London studios will start up production on 8 Days and The Getaway PS3 again.

also, i thought people HATED The Getaway games? personally, i really liked the first one, but i thought it was another Killzone like franchise, where people despised it for whatever reason? i guess, also like Killzone, the new entry in the series got them happy again. at least Killzone 2 is delivering on it's promises, however, and THEN some. the beta is FANTASTIC.

[C_Dub]

of the people who was VERY excited to see what would become of the Getaway 3 and of course, Eight Days. The news of their cancellation was quite terrible. I remember seeing those first TG3 screens before the PS3 was introduced in 2005 and it was awesome how good they looked. Imagine that game with even better graphics, and even Eight Days which also looked slick.

All that for EyePet? MEH.

[VMAN_01]

Isn't the game on hold because they needed more resources to get Home up and out of the door?

[ApocalypseShadow]

but,it had better be for a good reason besides eyepet and home.

at least use the tech for the next:

uncharted sequel(no brainer here)

syphon filter sequel(second no brainer)

c-12(anybody remember that game from sony?they could fix this busted game and give it new life)
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

rise to honor sequel(give it some kung fu,add jet li,and presto,instant action.)

ghost in the shell 2(get the license from bandai and make me a sequel to the ps2 game)

or,just continue making what could have been great potential for ps3(eight days)

apocalypse...............

[SickNick85]

Why, Sony, Why? this game can be a successful IP...give us 8 days in 2009

[kanedaakira]

You are absolutely correct. If Sony release Eyepet and the console is still at it's current price it will not sell. Even if all the children in the world are screaming for Eyepet their parents are not going to buy a PS3 at that price. It's a bad choice for Sony to make.

[pwnsause]

Im pretty sure that by the time Eyepet releases, the PS3 will be at an affordable price, about $300. Im still hurt though with the decision they made with 8-Days, it had lots of potential.

[Meryl]

it was not cancelled just put on hold while they focused on lbp and home, they wanted to get home out a bit quicker u said, it was never gonna happen if they didn't focus on it, i'm sure when lbp makes a profit (don't they have to sell at least a 1 mill?) they will put this project back on, and yup it looks sweet, im pretty sure thats realtime in the video, but i could be wrong lol

[Alcohog]

LBP is probably already turning a profit. It comes from a studio of like 30 employees. :|

[sinncross]

his is such old news... the new head of Sony Worldwide Studios said that this project was put on hold because it lacked an online component and at the time, they were focussing on online orientated projects.
Eight Days will see the light at some stage just later then sooner.

[beavis4play]

what the h*ll was scee thinking?

[sprinterboy]

Work will start on both of these titles imo after HOME, Getaway may start development again alittle bit longer into the PS3 life-cycle just so they can get closer to the target render.

[krisq]

... it doesn't mean never. Home will evolve all the time, development will not stop. Damn, Eight days looks sweet.

[micro_invader]

I hope that someday they can start this game back up because after watching that video I really want to play it. The animation was just something else, incredible work by Jim Jagger.

I'm going to go look him up on google.

[Chrissy]

What kind of an idiot cancels a game like this?? Oh right the kind that has NO money and NO brains. LOL just lol, 8days and getaway for a pathetic wii like game?!?! I guess this move cemented the last place for ps3 this gen and made the so called ''Year Of The PS3'' even a bigger joke. Good job sony!

[sonyfanonly]

they are using the resources to make another game which will look better and play better i guess but i do hope that in the future they complete eight days

[mushroomwig]

Didn't that just SCREAM co-op?? or was it just me?

=[

[Und1zputed]

The Explanation that was presented to the public about the "cancellation"/" ;hold" was so that SCEE could get more developers on Killzone 2, so that the game could be finished in '09. Sony's thinking stems from this... Everyone who had a P2, or tagged along late and recently got one has either heard or played the supposedly Halo Killer we know as Killzone 2. They already have a fan base, or a sort of Hype surrounding this game. So i think it was a simple lets put the New Game ( 8 Days ) on the back burner until we get the well known game out first. Truth is, unless you watched E3 or know about the industry and kinda skim along the news of whats going on, there was a limited audience that knew about 8 days. I agree with most of the above comments in saying Sony can't be that stupid to totally cancel this game. With Square Enix also going to the Xbox 360 w/ Final Fantasy, the only two heavy hitters PS3 Has next year is God Of War 3, a definately blockbuster hit in the making and Killzone 2, that we know of now that are exclusively PS3. Putting the fate of next year just in those two's hands is alot of pressure, so i hope E3 '09 has an announcement stemming..."For a 2010, or Holiday release...8 Days and The Getaway!" Sony really needs to step up, Gears of War 2 is killing right now, and Little Big Planet and Resistance 2 arent punching back as hard as they should! Little Big Planet, from multiple sites, is being called a let down? Sony Step it up, i'm a gamer not a fanboy so i just love games, and right now...ur slipping up!

[elorm9]

There's also that team ICO game and Gran Turismo 5

[Und1zputed]

Yea but as far as mainstream Blockbuster heavy hitters elorm9 Sony really putting emphasis on those two, i do agree with you on Gran Turismo, but i think the game team ICO is pushin may not big to all the Sony Fan Base...And even if so thats still only 4 games, if sony wants to push over that hump to beating Microsoft they better bring the army out next year, because '08 was suppose to be our year, but they only thing that really hit hard was MGS4 IMO anyway, but im not trying to push ur comment down because Gran Turismo will do some damage too, Sony just has some work to do

[Tony600]

When God of War 3 hits,the Xjoke 3beefes aka xbox 360 games will look like **** compared to God of War 3!The Xbox 360 is one huge failure!Their best games:Halo 3,Gears of War 2,Halo 3,Gears 2...ehm...Gears 2...?Ah Halo 3!Is that the best microsoft can offer?Really poor!Microsoft should continue to work on PCs because,their consoles are dog****!68% failure rate,Cool!Hahaha

[Solid_SnakeXx]

wtf, sony are stupid assses i m getting tired of their attitute, if itwasnt for mgs4 i i wouldnt have got that sh!t

[tk]

KZ2 - development of FPS core tech
- Eight Days, The GetAway can reuse some of the tech developed
EyeToy - development lagging (only EoJ), so need more dev of core tech
- When the core tech done, focus resources on leveraging the tech in new games

This is most probably the reason - they first need to develop the core technology in all aspects to make it available in games. EDGE tools etc. Otherwise they will have only games like fps, racing, tps, mmorg and not the rest of the potential available to content developers.

Problem could now be that the PS3 audience is "hard core" and not that much interested in "cool tech" like eyetoy.

[Aft3rKill]

rather pay 60 for this then WAW or something like that maybe even Resistance. wtf i wanted this game

[yog-sothot]

mmmh... what we saw from 8 days looked good, no doubt abou it, but it was so soon in the development that I'm not sure at all it was actual gameplay. Even if the game might have been as good as what we saw there (look at Killzone 2 which seems to match the trailer from E3 2005) I just refuse to be disappointed based only on some "target" video. Life is too short and there are still TONS of great games to play on my PS3 and my 360. And who knows, 8 days might still come back someday !

[Sarah Palin]

.....The lead character looks like a douche-bag.
When you play an action game---you want your character to look like a bad ass.
Not like some guy that just got done shopping in San Francisco. FABULOUS!!!!

The pet monkey "game" looked like it would kick ass. I know its for children, but It looks like more fun than LBP---prolly sell more copies too. I would buy it.