• PC Games That Never Made It: Part 2

    PC Games That Never Made It: Part 2

    Jayesh Limaye, Jan 09, 2010 1000 hrs IST

    Highly anticipated games that were never released

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This is part two the series about PC games that never made it to the market. You can have a look at part one here.

Dungeon Keeper 3: War for the Overworld

Real Time Strategy games have always been a craze among gamers who prefer the calculated gameplay over the fast-paced FPS or racing genres. EA's Dungeon Keeper was one such game series that won praise from reviewers for innovative design and devilish humour.



In keeping with the franchise slogan - It's good to be evil - the third installment of the game series titled Dungeon Keeper 3: War for the Overlord was announced in early 2000, while design was already underway in late 1999. Players have to manage evil creatures in an underground dungeon and protect it against the goodly righteous adventurers, which are common in RPGs. In this third installment, the player was set to lead the battle against the good in the surface realm, as against underground.

Click here to watch Dungeon Keeper 3 teaser trailer

Despite heavy anticipation, developers Bullfrog Production quickly cancelled the game within a month of announcement in March 2000, though the announcement came in August that year with the following explanation.

"A third episode of the Dungeon Keeper saga was underway, but opportunities to develop new intellectual properties on new platforms such as PlayStation 2 have meant that DK3 has been put on hold. There are currently no plans for another Dungeon Keeper game, however, it remains an important franchise and there may be opportunities for us to pursue that direction in the future."

One of the key reasons for the cancellation was said to be the fact that EA's Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings games were coming around the same time. Another reason was that this game also allowed the player to play as the good heroes, which was considered to be a huge risk factor that may have lead to the games failure.



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shANKARI
,trichy, on Jan 15, 2010 01:13 PM
HI
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adisal
,Pune, on Jan 09, 2010 07:38 PM
Stormbirds would have been cool man. Looks great from screenshots
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bharat8055
,Hyderabad, on Jan 09, 2010 04:40 PM
what about the games that were said to be launched on PC along with platforms and that never made it !! Battle Field Bad Company..those matter dude.. not the SH** of which we should be thank full.
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