Surreal was to be a single-player action game with puzzle elements. You would've traveled through various periods attempting to solve riddles within real-time 3D graphic backgrounds, while attempting to defeat other characters.

WHAT HAPPENED?
Surreal just quietly disappeared from the PlayStation roster.

Ted Shred
Platform: PlayStation
Publisher: IBM
Developer: Digital Domain

The Basics

Riding on the cusp of "extreme" sport popularity, Ted Shred was yet another title that promised to be the "most radical" game ever and ended up face down in its own hyperbole. The game was essentially designed as a 3D side-scrolling action game including surfing, kayaking, skateboarding, jet skiing, and the likes. And since such sports wouldn't be "extreme" without a cast of characters, the gamewould've featured those, too. Vulgaar was the arch villain and bad, bad landlord of the isle of Loki-Loco, and his clan was to be called the D.R.I.P. (Dirty Rotten Incompetent Punks). You would have battled from behind the persona of Ted Shred, the "coolest, most radical extreme surfer ever to shred the ocean blue."

What did sound pretty cool was that Digital Domain, the special effects creators behind Apollo 13 and True Lies were animating this title. The game would've included eight levels of Crash Bandicoot-style gameplay.

WHAT HAPPENED?
Ted Shred quietly bit the dust.