Multiple Platforms Midway Studio Canned 2 Games...

[Ohri-Jin]

A Glimpse At Day To Night, An Unreleased Horror Game From Midway

By Spencer . January 4, 2011 . 3:37am
Hot on the heels of our Hero news, we present Day to Night another unreleased and unannounced project from Mortal Kombat makers Midway. Environment art suggests Day to Night is a horror game. One scene shows a creature (zombie?) creeping up on a person with a dim flashlight.




Clicl to see the artwork for that game - http://www.siliconera.com/2011/01/0...-night-an-unreleased-horror-game-from-midway/


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That’s Artwork From Hero, A Canned Midway Game

By Spencer . January 3, 2011 . 2:19am
Before Midway collapsed they had a number of in-development games like This is Vegas and a lesser known title simply called Hero.

Concept art from Hero shows a person armed with a sword in the center of a ruined city. The impressive artwork comes from Stephan Martiniere who worked as a the creative visual director at Midway’s Chicago office for a number of years.


Source - http://www.siliconera.com/2011/01/03/thats-artwork-from-hero-a-canned-midway-game/


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More Amazing Artwork And Details About Midway’s Canceled Game, Hero

By Spencer . January 10, 2011 . 3:01am
After discovering the first piece of stunning art from Hero we were on a quest to find out more about the axed Midway project.

Hero was in development in 2008. Given the timeframe it was likely a current generation game with a concept that sounds similar to the TV show series "Heroes." Hero is centered around characters with different special powers.

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Artist Tae young Choi painted this picture of a character with a tail who has super strength. In the background, laser beams from a satellite on the fritz are slicing through everything in their path.



This character has the power to control water. Choi wanted to make the water form a dragon, an idea rejected by his boss.



This man with a sword, perhaps the same sword carrying hero from Martiniere’s art, has the power to jump really high.

One part of Hero takes place in Chicago, an interesting local choice since Midway has a studio there. Concept art shows Chicago’s loop and a subway scene.

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An office fight reveals a hero with some kind of shield or force field power.


This awe inspiring piece of art is from a battle scenes in Hero. A character who appears to control electricity and the jumping hero face off on the wingtip of Air Force One.


… that would have been quite a fight to play, but sadly Hero is canceled.










SOURCE - http://www.siliconera.com/2011/01/1...and-details-about-midways-canceled-game-hero/

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UPDATE:

Source - http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2011/01/more_concept_art_from_midways.php

 

[Ilyena]

I love how someone's spammed a facebook link for Tommy Lee all over the comments of the first one.

Anyway, the artwork looks fantastic, especially the unnamed horror game. Very atmospheric. It's a shame they'll never be made.

 

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

I want to say I wished they'd released it, but I can't. I tend to think a lot of concept art looks pretty amazing but then the actual game isn't particularly great. As good as the city artwork is, it seems quite generic when you see other ruined cities from games. It may have been an awesome game but the financial failings would probably mean they'd lack serious finance to fund certain aspects of the game, but we'll never get to find out.

 

[Ohri-Jin]

A couple videos surfaced for Midway’s canned Hero game

January 15th, 2011 @ 20:43
By Stephany Nunneley

A couple of videos for Midway’s canceled action game, Hero, have surfaced.

Hero was designed to be a third-person shooter with fight mechanics. The storyline for the canceled title had a natural disaster killing many folks in the city, and leaving the rest to mod rule essentially.
To get things under control, a private military group is sent to the city, but more problems arise when the dead begin rising with special mutant powers
In the first video, a 15 minute walk-through, it shows you how you could have customized your hero with different powers to combat these undead mutants.
The second video, shows gameplay, and it looks like it would have been a rather coll title upon completion.
Phosphor Games, which is comprised of many former Midway staffers and aided in development of Kinect Adventures, appears to have two Hero-like concepts in the works.
Some of the folks that worked on the game have gone on to create their own studio called Phosphor Games. Currently, the studio is working on a title called Awakening, which looks to have borrowed stuff from Hero, according to Kotaku (the video has been removed).
It’s also working on 8-bit Death, which is descrived by the studio as a “post retro” mix of “classic and cutting edge” mechanics in a third-person “AAA title” designed for XBL and PSN.

 

[Ohri-Jin]

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UPDATE:

This video is sweet....

There once was a game called Hero, a Midway project about customizable superheroes that looked incredibly promising, but was sunk when the publisher collapsed. Many of the game's developers have banded together under the name Phosphor, however, to finish what they started -- now we have Awakened.
The concept trailer is incredibly rough around the edges, but as an idea, I see a lot of good. The range of powers shown, and the potential for the game's rather depressing world, could seriously make for a brilliant title. The last part of that trailer gives a clue as to the awesome power you might be able to command, and I'm very excited about it.
Open-world superhero games are still a somewhat small niche, despite a number of high profile entries. Awakened could very possibly be one of the most open-ended and personalized experiences of the sub-genre, provided they get the money and time to truly create a polished, tight game.

@Minute 3 gives me that vibe...goosebumps..