21 years later, a long-lost Iron Man game surfaces online thanks to a former dev: "It really was looking great"
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“We were about five to six months into the project with a brand new engine for PC, Xbox and PS2,” Edwards says. “Then they pulled the rug, at which point we had no work and then no job! It really was looking great.”
But why did it get canceled? Edwards says the team “never got to hear the exact reason(s),” but notes: “The film being delayed was a big one, or perhaps they didn’t think the game was good enough and therefore didn’t want to fund it further. Or perhaps some other dev was lined up to get it instead.”
Even if the GenePool Iron Man game never made it onto PC or consoles, Edwards plans to post “some proper gameplay footage in the next couple of days,” which is bound to be interesting. Sadly for Marvel fans, this isn’t the first time an Iron Man game has been canceled – a couple of years ago, it was revealed that theJust Cause devs at Avalanche Studios had once been working on one for around two years, and “it looked absolutely amazing.” HopefullyEA Motive’s single-player Iron Man gamewill be able to make up for those losses when it eventually launches.
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