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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Tieno on May 19, 2008, 03:17:19 PM

Title: Concept Art of Rare's unreleased games
Post by: Tieno on May 19, 2008, 03:17:19 PM

Just saw this on 1up, definately not what I expected.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3167875

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Peek at Rare's Unreleased Games?
A look at what could have been -- or might still come?
By Thomas Puha, 05/19/2008
The Nordic Game conference, held in the city of Malmo in Sweden last week, played host to many interesting speakers, such as Jet Set Radio designer Ryuuta Ueda and Ico's Fumito Ueda, to name a few. But one of the sessions that really caught our eye was one entitled "East West All-stars," where Ueda, Ninja Theory's Alex Taini, Furi Furi's Ryosuke Tei, and Rare's Ryan Firchau showed off artwork to demonstrate the differences in design approaches and style between the east and the west.

Most interesting was the concept art shown by Firchau of several games that never came to fruition at Rare.

Concept art is just that: concept art. But the work Firchau showed looked like it had the potential to be far more interesting than anything Rare has released in the last few years. Take a look at some of the photos that show art from a seemingly dark fairytale with werewolves (?) and a sci-fi game that looks a bit Halo-ish, only with more dirt and grime. What do you think of this stuff -- could any of it have made for some cool games?

(http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/4/6/lg/720.JPG)
(http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/4/6/lg/723.JPG)
(http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/4/6/lg/725.JPG)
(http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/4/6/lg/722.JPG)
(http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/4/6/lg/724.JPG)
(http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/4/6/lg/721.JPG)

Title: Re: Concept Art of Rare unreleased games
Post by: duckman2000 on May 19, 2008, 03:19:33 PM

Note the big, round bug eyes

Title: Re: Concept Art of Rare unreleased games
Post by: MCD on May 19, 2008, 03:20:48 PM

Quote from: duckman2000 on May 19, 2008, 03:19:33 PM

Note the big, round bug eyes

nah, not these concepts.

they look like WOW artworks, the bird at least.

Title: Re: Concept Art of Rare's unreleased games
Post by: duckman2000 on May 19, 2008, 03:28:42 PM

(http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/4/6/lg/722.JPG)

(http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/4/6/lg/721.JPG)

So the one relies on big round glasses, but still.

I take it from the cancellation of this game that Rare is pretty much relegated to cater to the family friendly bracket?

Title: Re: Concept Art of Rare's unreleased games
Post by: Jabberwocky on May 19, 2008, 04:07:18 PM

WTF? This is actually good art.

Title: Re: Concept Art of Rare's unreleased games
Post by: Scurvy Stan on May 20, 2008, 01:46:57 AM

Interesting stuff. Make me wonder how many fuck awesome game ideas were out there in somebody's head and never saw the light of day.

Title: Re: Concept Art of Rare's unreleased games
Post by: Raban on May 20, 2008, 01:50:58 AM

Wow. Rare had an art department. What the fuck happened :'(

Title: Re: Concept Art of Rare's unreleased games
Post by: Bildi on May 20, 2008, 02:18:07 AM

(http://media.1up.com/media/03/5/4/6/lg/722.JPG)

His nose has a clitoris hood.