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http://www.square-enix.co.jp/gunloco/

No reason or explanation is given, but Square Enix has announced that development of the title has been terminated.

 

[TheOddOne]

No biggie.

 

[buy teh haloz]

Huh, I had completely forgotten about this game.

 

[Suzzopher]

Phew, that looked like a right stinker.

 

[Blablurn]

good

 

[Ushojax]

Good. Looked putrid and was never going to make any money.

 

[Nuclear Muffin]

Surprising, I really thought that they were going to go through with it.

Maybe there's hope for DMC's cancellation after all!

 

[JaseC]

Had the title confused with Gun Head for a moment there.

It'd be nice if EA announced that game. It needs to happen.

 

[damn that's nice]

I thought it looked interesting if nothing else. I'd rather see something new from Square, instead of Final Fantasy XIII-2.

 

[Phoenician_Viking]

Nooooooooooooooooo.
I was planing to get a 360 for this game

 

[Qwomo]

Okay good, I'm happy to see that I'm not the only person who thought this game looked abysmal.

Evidently SE agreed.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

And nothing of value was lost.

 

[Aaron]

Only wise move SE has made this entire generation.

 

[Ozzykamikaze]

Surprising, I really thought that they were going to go through with it.

Maybe there's hope for DMC's cancellation after all!

You stop that dreamer-talk right now! I read this and I think "Yeah... maybe there is a chance after all..." then I realize there isn't and I am sad.

 

[cosmicblizzard]

I'll always have the bunny hat I got at NYCC to remember it by.

Spoiler

I broke it

 

[Erasus]

It looked awful.

 

[CO_Andy]

A crippling blow to western game development.

 

[Orobi]

Noooo.jpg
How can it be???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWz3IZHiHlM

 

[nickcv]

Only wise move SE has made this entire generation.

don't say that, they did a terrific job with FFXIV

Spoiler

[/sarcasm]

 

[ULTROS!]

They must have realized that they (excluding Eidos) can't do shooters.

See Mindjack.

 

[jeremy1456]

No loss.

 

[BobTheFork]

IS Gun loco it's own game or was this Gun: Loco?

 

[Femmeworth]

Hopefully no (innocent) employees were fired in the process.

 

[Tunavi]

Figures. It looked horrible and I think it was supposed to be out already... :/

 

[Enosh]

noooo
what are we going to make fun off now?

 

[Acidote]

Good call.

 

[Salsa]

well that's a shocker

 

[The Spoony Hou]

Square cancelled a shitty game? Really?

 

[ULTROS!]

Square cancelled a shitty game? Really?

It's a rare event.

Canceling a game with potential and hype on the other hand...

 

[kinoki]

The reason is most likely related to FFXIII-2.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

YES ! that is extremely wise !

man that game looked bad so so bad.

 

[Yoshiya]

The reason is most likely related to FFXIII-2.

Nope. The reason is almost surely that Mindjack sold approximately 7 copies worldwide. The game was meant to be out in the near future, so was probably almost entirely completed. It probably wasn't going to be as awful as Mindjack either, but that isn't saying much.

Edit: This was internal, right? If so this might not be an insignificant write-off.

 

[Jintor]

Looked alright but didn't look... notable. And between Bulletstorm, Duke Nukem Forever and Serious Sam 3 I don't think there would have been much of the 'what the fuck' market left over anyway.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Glad they didn't blame earthquake for this.

 

[Azure Dream]

Maybe it's unfair to say it without seeing more of the gameplay, but I feel like they made a good call on this one.

 

[Kafel]

Could have tried to find an interesting direction with Kinect in mind instead. Oh well.

 

[soultron]

Wasn't too keen on the art style or overbearing anime cliches, so I'm not too saddened by the loss.

Sorry for all those who put their time and effort into the game up to this point though. I hope they find a new project to work on. Wish them the best.

 

[xbhaskarx]

Square cancelled a shitty game? Really?

If making a non-shitty game is the standard, why didn't/don't they cancel _________.

 

[Pooya]

they are trying to improve their metacritic average probably .

 

[To Far Away Times]

Never heard of this game.

 

[reptilescorpio]

Shock! Stop green lighting shit games Square and put that money to better use!

 

[DevilWillcry]

Good, it looked like utter shit. Now get me a release date for Versus you dirty bastards.

 

[Xater]

Looks like someone with a brain took a look at this project.

 

[Spookie]

Christ I thought this was out.

 

[Stumpokapow]

So it looked pretty bad but I'm still a little surprised that they cancelled it given the external licensing and partners involved; they had to work with a vinyl toy figure designer on the game designs, right?

 

[Pooya]

So it looked pretty bad but I'm still a little surprised that they cancelled it given the external licensing and partners involved; they had to work with a vinyl toy figure designer on the game designs, right?

yes.
so much money wasted.
http://www.siliconera.com/2010/09/09/the-models-used-to-make-gun-locos-loony-jailbirds/

Gun Loco’s cast of cartoony criminals aren’t based on sketches or motion capture data. Square Enix hired Brothersworker to craft figures, which were digitally scanned to create the game’s characters.

 

[REMEMBER CITADEL]

I'm not disappointed, although a recent preview in Edge made it sound like it might not be complete garbage.

 

[ULTROS!]

I hope they sell those figures, I'd like to get one myself.

 

[Haunted]

It did look pretty terrible.

I raise you

 

[Augemitbutter]

the characters looked ridiculous and the potential for more gifs was great.