Main conclusions
- Games like Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry would go through major genre and history changes before becoming standout titles.
- Franchises like Halo and BioShock were initially designed in a very different way than their final iterations.
- Changing the original concepts led to the creation of influential games such as Splinter Cell, Donkey Kong, and GoldenEye 007.
Game development can be a daunting process, with games like Black Legend Wukong Going through many years of development before it is finally released to the public. In some cases, a game can start as a project and evolve into something radically different in terms of genre, style, and intellectual property.
Many people have been surprised to find that some of their favorite games will be completely different from the final product. This is an example of how sometimes a contradiction or just a change of mind can be beneficial to the final launch of a project, resulting in something successful or becoming part of the history of two games.
10 Resident Evil 4
Leon must destroy the ghosts.
residue Resident Evil 3 And some of the derivative titles, Capcom wanted to open new paths with them. Resident Evil 4The project went through many reviews and ideas before being launched in the market. I play third person over the top of the shoulder. Very silent games forever.
There are two long-awaited upstarts coming to production. Pictures of the game can be found online..ISO view Resident Evil 4 I would like to take a more supernatural angle. It's hard to see Leon Kennedy in a castle that looks like something out of Dracula One movie is about fighting against the buzz, but one movie showed Leon fighting against a ghost.
9 Diabo can cry
Leon Kennedy was the original Dante.
High octane action horror game Diabo can cry It's so over the top that it's hard to believe it will be like that at some point. Resident Evil 4.More than one of the many ideas for Resident Evil 4 It was for Maybe he's afraid of survival horror. It relies on movement and adventure.
Fortunately, the idea will lose a lot of Resident Evil and will end up being Diabo can cry And start One of Capcom's most popular franchises.From Dante to Nero, the gameplay worked well for the Devil May Cry games, but given how much you like it, it won't work when Resident Evil 6 If it turns into a game for a year, the resentment will be worse. Resident Evil 4 Jojo like Diabo can cry.
8 Hala: Combat Evolved
A franchise that started out as a clone of StarCraft.
When it comes to the first-person shooter genre, Hala: Combat Evolved He often talks about being a top shooter, which makes it ironic that he was never envisioned as a shooter. Or the original idea of aura It comes as a real-time strategy in the same line. Starcraft, With armored humans facing alien threats.
Intao aura It evolved into a third-person shooter, but due to regulatory restrictions, Bungie needed to make changes to finish on time. This led to the move to Revolutionary first-person shooterThe rest was history, like aura The Enda franchise is home to Paper. Fortunately, the series has managed to stay true to its roots by later introducing spin-off RTS: halo wars.
7 Bioshock
The kidnapping was there because there was no place on the island.
Formation Bioshock It seems like being an underwater city was a given from the start. It's not, as Bioshock Originally set to take place on an abandoned space station where genetically modified monsters roam the facilities alongside a dangerous cult, that turned into the latest game from two developers: Judah.
Maybe EA was ready to launch. Dead Space The masses have an almost identical idea, Bioshock Modo for a zombie infested island Configure, immediately, but re-publish later, Underwater city of ecstasy It became tangible. As a result, Bioshock Tornu-se has cemented itself as one of the most popular games of the 2000s.
6 Crocodile: Linda Dos Jobos
What could be the first Yoshi 3D game?
In the mid-1990s and early 2000s, studios tried to breed pets at most to lead new game franchises, such as Crocodile: Linda Dos Jobos, Trying to compete with giants like Mario. Ironically, Croc came As a 3D prototype Yoshi gameBut when Nintendo brought back an idea, the Argonaut developers reused the prototype to develop a new game.
m 1997, Crocodile: Linda Dos Jobos It was released for PlayStation 1, Sega Saturn, and PC, increasing playability. Super Mario 64 And mixing with Tomb Raider Mechanics. Embora critics were harsh on the first Croc release, and that was enough to warrant a sequel and remake in 2024.
5 fragmented cell
Before he was Sam Fisher, he was James Bond.
Blending the thrill of espionage and stealth gameplay, fragmented cell It quickly became an event that was intended to be a response from UbiSoft to Metal Gear SolidHowever, in the initial stage of production, fragmented cell It will be a first-person shooter for Red Storm, and at another point, there was an attempt to do so. Between the next James Bond game.
All previous plans appear in the water below as developers seize the opportunity. Tom Clancy's Romance LicenseThus, it turns out that Splinter Cell is a third-person stealth game, where Sam Fisher enters the story as the famous protagonist.
4 Donkey Kong
Mario wouldn't exist without Popeye or the Marineheroes.
Replace Donkey Kong with Bluto, Pauline with Olive Oyl, and finally Mario with Popeye, and the result is the original idea. Donkey Kong Shigeru Miyamoto's work was originally designed to be an unpopular game. Popeye Animated design, but period constraints force your team to change or design two characters.
Popeye became Mario, and without that transition into the world's most popular video game series, it wouldn't exist today. Donkey Kong would also go on to be a defining piece in the history of two games, becoming its own franchise and appearing in numerous Nintendo games. More recently, though, Popeye The game will be released on the original NES, inspired by the structure and gameplay of Donkey Kong.
3 First Dorado 007
Enjoy On The Rails, a revolutionary FPS game.
Another popular first-person shooter, GoldenEye 007, is open to all shooters who want to play, and perhaps this historical part of the two games’ history was added to Rare Times following its original direction. Before it was the first shooter as you know it, it was It was originally designed to be a rail shooter game. On the same line as Virtue Police Oh house of two dead.
Rare format developers were sent to do the collections. golden eye To get reference images of the real replica in it First Dorado 007. It took something out of the box and instead of releasing it simultaneously with the movie. First Dorado 007 It was released two years after the film and became a beloved classic.
2 Mortal Kombat
Ed Boon and John Tobias raise the bar for Jean-Claude Van Damme
Wonderful kingdoms, gods, monsters, magic, heists, and distinctive bloody deaths Sao or que ferro Mortal Kombat He became a household name, because Jean-Claude Van Damme turned down the opportunity to star in the original game. To begin with, Mortal Kombat I launched as Star-studded wrestling game featuring famous actor isso it could have been like this blood sport.
However, when Jean-Claude turned down the opportunity, Ed Boon and John Tobias reworked their idea to include elements of Big Trouble in Little China and Between No DragãoJean-Claude was transformed into Johnny Cage, and Mortal Kombat appeared. Jean-Claude Van Damme later became the voice of Johnny Cage.
1 He destroys
Fox turned down the chance to play an alien game.
In an ironic twist, some two melhores strange Bad games of the 90s will be inspired by it. He destroysWhen there are two first person shooters, this will be the one. Foreigners Adaptation. He's a space marine gunner imprisoned on a barren planet and shoots down scary monsters. The alien resemblances will always be there, only they're replaced by demons from hell.
A simpler reason why He destroys never turned mom Foreigners The game was only due to the failure of negotiations with 20th Century Fox. Isso levou Id Software to create their own game using what they had done previously Wolfenstein 3D and He destroys There were two or more outcomes.
