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[Pooya]

http://www.celteric.com/redemption.html

art director's page.

Project: Redemption for Xbox 360 & PS3
Developer | Publisher: Crytek - Frankfurt, Germany | N/A (cancelled)

Responsibilities
Art direction including research and defining the visual style/overall look & feel for the game. Directing and managing a team of 3 concept artists/mood painters & a team of 10 in-house production artists. Project management using Agile Development (SCRUM). Quality control over all art assets. Contribution to the implementation of tools & visual features for the CryEngine also used in “Crysis”.

http://www.gameblog.fr/news/30739-r...tieux-jeu-crytek-abandon#.UDzfSSmMlcw.twitter


there are a lot more images, looks like a Russian setting. the publisher was EA (logo on screenshots)

 

[Dabanton]

I'll get it out of the way early

I wonder if this was going to be ICO like or TLOU obviously without the flower zombies.

 

[Pooya]

I'll get it out of the way early

I wonder if this was like TLOU obviously without the flower zombies.

gameblog.fr says it was exactly that. third person game also.

 

[ScreenSplitter]

Not enough numbers in the title to warrant completion? But seriously, looks interesting, but it's hard to tell from a few screenshots. I'll have to read up on this later.

 

[Zaventem]

Man i hate the cutesy twisty foot shit.

 

[ironcreed]

Looks interesting. Maybe a bit of 'The Road' going on?

*Edit* Nah, the guy in the low level wise guy attire does not give that vibe.

 

[xptoxyz]

Damn, they went with the "let's use letters from the Cyrillic alphabets that look like other letters"

 

[batman2million]

It sucks to know that you'd put this much effort and work into a project only for it to get canceled.

Guess that's life.

 

[SketchTheArtist]

It sucks to know that you'd put this much effort and work into a project only for it to get canceled.

Guess that's life.

Especially if you're really attached to it, if it's more than a job for you, it's the hardest shit in the world. For me, it was like ending a relationship.

 

[DAREALGUMMY]

Too much The Last of Us.

 

[Hypereides]

Getting a strong The Last Of Us vibe like most have mentioned. Still would've liked to see what would've come out of it, with the cryengine.

 

[Viewtify]

The setting looks awesome.

 

[John Rabbit]

first few screens really giving off RE4-vibes.

 

[Saty]

So that's were their tech demo scenes of a girl and lavish fields are from? Shame it was canceled.

 

[Tagg9]

Looks like they made substantial progress on the game before deciding to can it.

 

[BadAss2961]

Too much The Last of Us.

Looks more Alan Wake to me.

 

[Currygan]

never seen someone holding an hatchet that way

 

[Elginer]

I'd have rather had this than another Crysis.

 

[universalmind]

Man i hate the cutesy twisty foot shit.

It's emotional man.

 

[aasoncott]

Aaaaaand now I'm sad that STALKER 2 was cancelled once again.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

first few screens really giving off RE4-vibes.

Especially the textures, yikes. Cryengine does a lot but the IQ on 360 and PS3 is pretty bad.

Stinks that a game like this was flat out cancelled, could taken the scraps and moved it to XBLA/PSN.

 

[Sentenza]

Man i hate the cutesy twisty foot shit.

Man, you people can be really weird at times.

 

[mr.beers]

Reminds me of half-life 2

 

[sflufan]

I'd have rather had this than another Crysis.

I'm fully with you on that one!

I wonder how that Roman Empire Kinect game of theirs is going?

 

[Arnie]

Gives me a Stalker vibe more than anything.

 

[CamHostage]

Would have liked to see what that river would have looked like. I've seen moving water in CryEngine2 but I don't think I've seen rapids done real well in this (or any engine I can think of actually? Uncharted and Uncharted GA have very pretty water effects but their river-runner scenes show up the effects.) This looks like a good mix of effects and water velocity variety, it could be an interesting sequence to see in action.

 

[Elginer]

I'm fully with you on that one!

I wonder how that Roman Empire Kinect game of theirs is going?

Rumor is it has gone next-gen which would be a nice showpiece for new hardware. I just hope they've backed off some from the whole first person Kinect gimmick. I think we've established by now that it doesn't work, nor does it seem fun.

I don't mind a title having Kinect functionality, I find it quite neat to be honest but not when Kinect is used as one of the main gameplay systems.

 

[Criminal Upper]

Certainly looked more interesting than Crysis.

 

[Nirolak]

Was this canceled by EA for sales expectations or Crytek for not being compatible with free 2 play?

 

[Mooreberg]

I'm amazed they didn't awkwardly work the letter Y into the title.

 

[Necronomikon]

Looks more Alan Wake to me.

Yeah, I thought that too.

It looks like a mix between Alan Wake and STALKER or something like that, with a final pinch of Silent Hill!

 

[zoukka]

I'd rather have another military themed shooter thanks.

 

[sn00zer]

Was wondering why the assets they have been using to showing off the new engine werent from Crysis

 

[Dunan]

I'm amazed they didn't awkwardly work the letter Y into the title.

They worked the Russian letter "ya" into the title,

Spoiler

which looks even more contrived

.

 

[UrbanRats]

I remember the footage of some girl running in the woods, in one of CE3 tech demos, was this it? Looked awsome.

 

[qKaC3K]

Too much The Last of Us.

This project was cancelled way before the work even started on The Last of Us.

Also quite a few people ended up from this project at Naughty Dog on The Last of Us...
(Lead character artist, Lead concept artist etc.)

 

[Graphics Horse]

I'm amazed they didn't awkwardly work the letter Y into the title.

It was cancelled for a reason..

 

[qKaC3K]

I remember the footage of some girl running in the woods, in one of CE3 tech demos, was this it? Looked awsome.

Yes. They reused the environment and some other assets like the girl for GDC tech presentations.

(The Castle part in one of their tech demos was also a cancelled project)

 

[HollovVpo1nt]

Couldn't they find another publisher or was the project simply shit?

Yes. They reused the environment and some other assets like the girl for GDC tech presentations.

(The Castle part in one of their tech demos was also a cancelled project)

I thought the castle was from RYSE?

 

[Fezan]

Would have liked to see what that river would have looked like. I've seen moving water in CryEngine2 but I don't think I've seen rapids done real well in this (or any engine I can think of actually? Uncharted and Uncharted GA have very pretty water effects but their river-runner scenes show up the effects.) This looks like a good mix of effects and water velocity variety, it could be an interesting sequence to see in action.

Just download the cryengine 3 SDK.it has the same map.
Also i have seen some of these screens before

 

[JaseC]

Couldn't they find another publisher or was the project simply shit?

I imagine at least part of the reason why the game wasn't shopped around (or wasn't shopped around successfully) is that Crytek wouldn't want to give up the IP, which is why it and EA, for its EA Partners program, have been largely inseparable since Crysis.

 

[Eppy Thatcher]

I can easily imagine Crytek putting assets towards this for a year... watching TLOU reveal and
a CEO somewhere just shaking his head and pulling the plug.

"Godamn naughty assholes."

 

[-SD-]

Showreel has video of Redemption.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aPoqpNEmlc
http://www.celteric.com/movies/EricCochonneauShowreel2008.zip (video + breakdown doc)

All assets on this footage are specifically created for Xbox 360, but were captured on PC hardware due to technical limitations at the time.

That's all CryEngine 2, of course.

 

[dekline]

That's too bad The pics look good and have me curious

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

this goes to show that Crytek doesn't just make random assets for promotional videos, which means that there once was a game featuring these guys: