Scottish based dev house Ruffian Games was enlisted by Sega to remake their classic IP Streets of Rage. The project was canned. Last week a video clip of the Streets of Rage remake was leaked on the net but with no sound, so Ruffian Games head Gary Liddon uploaded a full quality clip on his youtube. The video includes a title sequence followed by a nostalgic arcade that just happens to have a Streets of Rage machine in it (which is ironic since Streets of Rage was a Sega Genesis game). The arcade gets torched by a street thug and then combat ensues with gameplay video. Following all of that is what appears to be a boss introduction sequence.
Check it out…
He explained a little bit about the video and ultimately the cancelled game…
“Here are some scenes from a playable prototype. It was something we built very rapidly and represents pre-pre-pre-pre (lots of pres) pre-Alpha quality. Even so it has a certain charm 🙂
What’s the story behind it all? Like a lot of developers we work on a lot of different prototypes, they’re just not usually shown in public. In this case an older version of the same video was leaked last week which came as a bit of a surprise if I’m honest. As it had no sound I thought there wouldn’t be any harm sharing a version with audio.”
We think it looks pretty cool. Too bad Sega is sleeping on pretty much all of its classic IPs besides Sonic.