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Creator
Platform: N64
Publisher: Nintendo
The Basics
Creator has always been a mystery - even when we knew a little bit about it. The early graphics looked pretty cool, at the time. At one point EGM had a few seconds of quick zoom and rotate video. All we ever found out was that you would have had some type of control over the design and development of dinosaurs.
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WHAT HAPPENED?
The game was removed from Nintendo's lineup, and many of the elements were spread out among the mysterious Mario Paint 64DD games, which we have yet to see surface in the US.
Dead Ahead
Platform: N64
Developer: Optical Entertainment
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The Basics
Dead Ahead, back in 1996, was touted as the first true fighting-quest game ever. The game would've combined the fluidity and technique of 3D fighting games such as Tekken 2 and Virtua Fighter 2 with the exploration elements of Zelda and Final Fantasy. You no longer would have been limited to specific locations and fighting arenas.
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In Dead Ahead, combatants would've roamed around in a vast, nonlinear, 3D polygonal world. Similar to a traditional RPG-quest, the fights in Dead Ahead would've happened anywhere in the environment. Like an RPG, the battles would've happened at random times but unlike the norm, the camera would've stayed in a floating, third-person view (a la Super Mario 64). The similarities to RPGs wouldn't have ended there - you could have upgraded your combatants and even fight against three enemies at once. Imagine being able to walk anywhere you wanted in VF2, and you'll get the idea of what this game would've been about.
The Dead Ahead project was an amalgamation of many creative talents. Steve Park, a world-renowned auto designer and the head design manager of Ford Australia, was creating all the conceptual illustrations for the game. Software Creation, one of the original members of Nintendo 64's Dream Team, was doing programming work. The musical score was being composed by David Newman, a leading motion picture composer whose credits include The Flintstones, The Phantom, and Hoffa.
WHAT HAPPENED?
The game was quietly canceled.
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