UPDATE: Quest for all North American Xbox titles
This is an update to my previous "Why wasn't I informed?!?" posts.
- F1 2001 does exist and was released on the Xbox. Xbox.com confirmed the title and I was able to find one on eBay. (Odd, because I've searched for it before on eBay and come up empty.)
- According to two different sources, F1 2002 was not a North American Xbox release. EA had planned to release it but ended up only doing a PS2 version.
- TransWorld Skateboarding is a dead project. It's sister projects, TransWorld Surf and TransWorld Snowboarding did get released. (These I already have.)
- Conan The Barbarian was a PAL-only release.
- Puyo Pop Fever is coming to the Xbox later this year.
Other games that I was missing:
- Bionicle -- I swear I've looked into this one several times and could not verify that it was released. But I found it listed on Xbox.com and was able to find it on eBay.
- Pro Cast Sports Fishing -- I had originally pre-ordered this title from Gamestop.com. They later informed me that they could not fulfill the order. From the way they worded their email, I thought the title had been cancelled. Nope! It just wasn't being carried by Gamestop.
Weird stuff on Xbox.com:
- Shayde: Monsters vs. Humans -- Xbox.com shows this as a released title, but I can't get any information on it. Metro3D, the publisher, does not list the title on their site, and the link from Xbox.com to the "official game web-site" in Metro3D's domain is a bad link.
- Armada 2: Star Command -- Another Metro3D title. Xbox.com claims it was released in February 2004, but again, Metro3D is silent and I can't find this sucker anywhere.
- BC -- Still listed with a "2005" street date. The official word from Lionhead Studios is that everyone on the BC project was reassigned. It's not officially cancelled, just on hold.
- Barbarian -- This one has me puzzled. I know that it was released in the UK, but I've found nothing outside of Xbox.com to support a North American release. Can any of y'all shed some light on this?
- Rent a Hero No. 1 -- I could swear this one was cancelled, but Xbox.com claims it was released in February 2004.
- Slam Tennis -- An Atari title that I can't find anywhere else but on Xbox.com. As far as I can tell, it's vaporware, though it may have been released in Europe.
- Syberia II is listed on Xbox.com, but not Syberia. How weird is that? In fact, Syberia only shows up on one page on Xbox.com: The HDTV Expert Guide. (Syberia supports 720p and 1080i screen resolutions.) But there are no links to the game from that page.
If anyone has some insight beyond mine on any of these titles, please let me know!
5 Comments:
Did you get a copy of Pro Cast?
From what I can find, Metro3D went out of business last year. Best evidence is on their own website forum: here
I'm checking on some of the other stuff, but the Syberia one is pretty funny, since I own that game, too. I'm guessing someone just updated it to the current version without realizing it's a separate game.
By Kojubat, at Tue Aug 16, 05:23:00 PM CDT
Yes, I found Pro Cast on eBay.
I was suspicious of Metro3D's demise when I saw that all of the titles they claim to have introduced in 2004 are on my vaporware list.
Syberia is one of those games people either love or hate. I actually enjoyed the first part better than the second, even though the second one had a more fluid feel to it. (And ending the story half-way through in the first installment was rather irksome.)
By Cold Justice, at Tue Aug 16, 09:40:00 PM CDT
Rent a Hero did come out but good luck finding one. I believe it was only a rental from Blockbuster.
By k o w, at Tue Aug 16, 10:03:00 PM CDT
Wasn't Rent a Hero a Dreamcast game?
By Mister Bones, at Sat Aug 20, 12:19:00 PM CDT
Inexcusable. You have an obligation... get out there and buy a pal Xbox if that's what it takes to acquire every title. Jeeze.
By Galen, at Thu Sep 01, 07:01:00 PM CDT
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