Alien Breed 2005..check out the piccy

[synchro]

I cant belive this was cancelled ......Does this look like a cool and atmosperic game or what !!!
We should petition Team 17 to finish the job

[keropi]

way cool.... but cancelled, and petitions do not help....

It looks like the game has only been postponed for now.
http://forum.team17.com/showthread.php?t=19809

[squirminator2k]

Nope, it's been cancelled.

Originally Posted by Dream17.co.uk

Following this bit of news yesterday, I dropped Martyn Brown an email asking him if he could shed some light on the Alien Breed 2005 situation. In his emaile he stated, amongst other things, that "Breed is not on our current agenda, unfortunately."

But then Spadge made a post in the Alien Breed Fan-Remake thread which pretty much sealed AB2K5's fate - it seems that the latest version of one of Team17's greatest franchises is cancelled. I didn't want to believe it (as you can see by reading my post in that thread...), but there it is in black and white.

Rest in Peace, AB2K5.

damn... gutted. Those screenies look like the game would have captured the original's atmosphere.

I saw these screenshots years ago. It doesn't look like something that could be fun more than 10 minutes to me.

[BippyM]

Looks like Team17 have been reduced to a shadow of their former selves, trapped by publishers into releasing Worms re-hashes until they go belly-up

What happened to the legends, the team who pushed the boundries of the Amiga, the team who sought innovation in their titles??

[synchro]

Originally Posted by Burseg

I saw these screenshots years ago. It doesn't look like something that could be fun more than 10 minutes to me.

Years ago ?????
I thought these were PS2 screenshots 2004 ???

[synchro]

Originally Posted by keropi

way cool.... but cancelled, and petitions do not help....

Ye i know petitions do nothing. You get a better response if you post on their forums something like....

( What STUPID DUMB SHITE decided to cancel this game....Obviosly brain dead and shouldnt be in the computer game business at all !!!!! )

doesnt help but usually gets a response J/K

[fiath]

IIRC, there were some screenshots a couple of years ago, but they were nothing like as good as those ones above.

[synchro]

Originally Posted by fiath

IIRC, there were some screenshots a couple of years ago, but they were nothing like as good as those ones above.

Ah right !!!

I kind of thought these look like an isometric Doom 3. Certainly didnt look years old.

Originally Posted by fiath

IIRC, there were some screenshots a couple of years ago, but they were nothing like as good as those ones above.

Strange because I think the first one was exactly the same.

Here is the old thread: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...reed+isometric

The screenshots are the same and nearly from 2002!

PlayStation 2
Action / Adventure
31 Dec 2004
Team 17

That must be why we are discussing this today. It's nearly the deadline.

[synchro]

Originally Posted by Burseg

Here is the old thread: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...reed+isometric

The screenshots are the same and nearly from 2002!
That must be why we are discussing this today. It's nearly the deadline.

Your right they are the same ...... The pics looked ahead of there time back then. I still think it had possibilities though

[fiath]

Hmm, I remember some different ones... Where an alien was walking down a staircase? It was also more of an overhead view... Oh well, perhaps I am imagining it, or was a different game...

[Steve]

Originally Posted by fiath

Hmm, I remember some different ones... Where an alien was walking down a staircase? It was also more of an overhead view... Oh well, perhaps I am imagining it, or was a different game...

Don't worry, you're not imagining anything fiath. I remember seeing the older screenshots and they were half as good as the latest ones. Shame it's being dropped though. That's just the way the games industry is nowadays. Companies are canning games left right and centre if the publishers say they won't support it's development. It's a bit of a shame all innovation has been stamped out. Let's go back to the 80's and bedroom programmers. yay! lol.

[fiath]

Phew, thanks

[squirminator2k]

I would personally really like to see this game make the light of day. Unfortunately like most small-to-medium developers Team17 are at the whim (or should I say whip?) of the publishers who provide funding for their games and ultimately have a say in what's Hot, what's Not and whatknot. In a way I'm rather gutted that Infogrames opted not to publush any future Team17 titles - Infogrames/Hasbro/Microprose/Ocean gave Team17 a lot of leeway. What destroyed that relationship, however, was Microprose' insistance that they make a 3D Worms game there and then. They were adamant that they could do it themselves, too. The end result? Hogs of War. 'Nuff said.

One of the thigns I discovered recently was that AB2K4/2K5 was powered by the same engine that created the Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance games.