Crank the Weasel: A Cancelled 1930s Style Adventure | Unseen64 Ft. Hikikomori Media
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- ► ► www.unseen64.n... Originally announced at E3 2002, Crank the Weasel is a cancelled action adventure in development by Midway San Diego for PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox.
As it happened 15 years later with Cuphead, Crank’s look and feel were inspired by 1930's American cartoon art style, with a humorous and mature twist somehow similar to Conker’s Bad Fur Day.
Crank The Weasel featured an interesting sandbox gameplay, in which players would freely explore the game’s levels, interact with funny characters and find out many different ways to complete its objectives.
The main goal of Crank was to get money and steal items by creating chaos in the game’s world - spreading lies and making mischief. You could play enemy gangs off against each other, going to Strip Clubs, stealing loot from characters and reselling it to others.
Interaction with characters and gangs in the game would have been particularly ambitious. When Crank would steal something, the original owners would roam the level seeking vengeance and try stealing their missing items from other characters.
The team even licensed the popular song used in Benny Hill’s sketches to play when Crank would bite and infect a character, unleashing a chaotic animal-biting chain reaction across the whole level.
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► Crank the Weasel Prototype demo released on: assemblergames...
► Crank footage cut from:
• Crank the Weasel pitch...
• Weasel in Scratchtown 01
• Crank the Weasel E3 fo...
• Weasel Sneaking
• Weasel Looking
if it was made today, animations could be even more cartoon fitting.
God, I wish this game could've been finished! I always loved old rubber hose cartoons, and Conker's Bad Fur Day is one of my all-time favorite games, so I know I would've loved this!
really liking the feeling of it. the visuals look 1920-40s, but with a looney tunes and ren and stimpy vibe
This game looked sick! And really fits that weird obsesion with toony raunchy games that came out in the 2000's. Games like Wacked!,Conker, Cell Damage and Go Go Hypergrind.
ForeverAToon somebody need to a throwback to does games
So... GTA with a cartoon aesthetic, minus actual GTA'ing, and you get to beat up the Warners and their many doppelgangers.
You call this gameplay? I call this livin.
could work as a Conker spiritual sucessor if done nowadays.
Sort of a Christopher Walken inflection in a Jerry Seinfeld pitch
The narrator needs some serious practice
I'm sorry, but this dude's voice cracks me up
Yeah, he just needs to speak more naturally. There's no need to "put on" an announcer voice. Just enunciate clearly and talk like yourself and you're good to go. He sounds most natural when he's making jokes (like the "I've been to Hell" part) and then slides right back into the drawn out and "smooth" narration voice.
Eric Noble yeah sounds too much like cookie masterson from YDKJ
He reminds me of top15’s voice
#BurgerKingFootLettuce
Wow some can totally rescue this project and release it, looks great
The Benny Hill song is called Yakkety Sax in case you were interested :D
Thank you Larry! I found the name of the song when I was searching for it to use in the video, still most people just know it as the "benny hill song", even here in Italy :D
I would've loved this game when it came out! It's like the Simpsons hit-and-run meets Conker's Bad Fur Day both of which I enjoyed. My favorite type of games are games that don't take themselves too seriously like team fortress 2 and this definitely would've been amusing at least
It could really have been a fun game, really a shame Midway preferred to invest money in the average Gauntlet sequel :(
It's just another what if now
Crank the weasel should get a Kickstarter
I love this narrator I don't fucking care what any of you say
Jesus Christ. Why is the narrator talking like that
Either get a decent narrator or just don't do it.
You'll just get a foot lettuce situation at some time.
This guy speaks too slow, I had to put the video at 1.25 speed.
[POLYBLUES] that helped, thank you
In an Alternate Universe, Sly Cooper gets cancelled, and now we're 4 games into Crank the Weasel
Alright edgy bois, this game is for you...
the weasels are villains in Conker's, interesting...Where this come from? Roger Rabbit movie?
Conker's will be a eternal masterpiece.
I don't mind the narrator. He sounds like a Ferengi. Also, it looks like it could have been a good niche game if it had been released. Oh well. I like the 1930 cartoon style and setting.
I’d pay to see this made
Wait a second... I think i remember hearing about this on G4TV ages ago. The footage with the Xbox buttons, I know I've seen it back in the day somewhere
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Did a robot narrate this video?
looks like a ren & stimpy`s game
it is a good vieo but i must give it a dislike for the narrators voice
This looks like a game that would fit nicely inside of the Fallout universe
Like a Cel Damage & Freaky Flyers ❤💙
Damn that could of been really interesting on those consoles!
Looks awesome
Not even Peacock from Skullgirls would like to have this weasel as a friend
I remember hearing about this game now that you bring it up. It did seem to have some interesting ideas, but I doubt it would have been amazing.
The announcer sounds like @Brutalmoose if he was either a. underpaid b. didn't want to do this or c. both of the above >.
1930's? Feels like the 2020's!
Is that "A Bug's Life" music I hear in the start of that pitch video segment?
i loved, is so beautiful! i need the game now!
Ahh.. I love Perfect Dark so much! Everything is so great in it; the music, the weapons, the Combat Simulator, and so much more! To me, it's the single greatest game of all time (and I'm only 15!)
Atari-Dude 1 How is Perfect Dark related to this in any way?
The music that is played is from that game :P
Exactly, an awesome music from an awesome game that is perfect as a background for these kind of videos :)
I guess this is the big thing Miles was talking about on stream!
When they showed the chicken i knew what it meant even though I am a kid
Could've been good!
What’s with the stilted and awkward narration to this video? First video I’ve watched on this channel. Voice sounds like a sassy 1930’s gangster character. “Yeah, see...”
OMG This Game Crank The Weasel Has Cancelled 😢😭
Liam had a voice that you had to get used to but this VO guy has a very "indavidual" delivery.
is like Grand Theft Auto but with cartoons and Chaos, any posibility of Rockstar Games to take a look?
Hikiko's a big boy now.
As much as I'm not fond of the whole "edgelord cartoon-y" cultural phase and think it's had long-lasting negative effects, I gotta admit, I really want an old-timey cartoon-themed open world sandbox game now...
I like HikikomoriMedia but he's no Seahorsegaming.
I love crank
For what are normally informational/educational videos, the weird humor in this is kind of off putting.
What is this music you're using. Please tell me.
When I worked for midway, i suggested we give the game the old squiggled lines filter and change the over all look to a more black and white or sepia look like on Bendy and the Ink Machine. But no ones listens. the Developer's egos are too far up there arses!!!!
This would have been an interesting game especially if they could have made Crank more likably awful
A little slow this game, isn't?
By the way where should be these members from Midway San Diego? Look like a good project.
But i didn't like the character design and the sloppy anyway.
Would the engine have been able to handle everything going on?
It's cool but its somewhat "flat" and when i mean that is that it doesnt have enough "punch" to be really unique, yes the cartoony 30's style its good and all and its somewhat a Cartoon rubber-hose animation GTA game but its just that, i feel it doesnt have something more memorable than the cartoony style.
Look Conker worked because it wasnt just a edgy cartoony videogame, but all those adult themed jokes were directed towards all the critizism Rare had about "all they make are happy-two shoes cartoony video games" so they tried to make the complete opposite of what they regulary did back then, it worked because you didnt expect from them a alchoholic squirrel bastard that doesnt give a crap about anybody else than himself and wants all the money in the world just to buy more booze, here is just "SEE! we can make another conker alright! we have chicks! we have strip joints! we have violence! its like conker!" but all i see is Cool World mixed with GTA and Epic Mickey.
Maybe if Midway bought back then the rights to make a sandbox game about Cool World for the ps2 then maybe this could work out a little more, because this alone isnt enough to make a good game, doesnt have anything else than "its an old cartoony edgy game" it has style but its kinda dull in everything else, and Crank the Weasel? even the name is kinda "meh", its cool it has style but im not shock why wasnt released, because this doesnt have anything else than games like Cel Damage or in the future Epic Mickey did in the first place.
It would have been interesting to see how they could have been implemented the story and characters in the game, unfortunately most of what we can see from Crank is just an early prototype :(
Edgybois
7:40 gahs like that are never natural, but clearly we all know the game was canceled so I really don't get the placement of that.
its like a text to speech machine had a stroke...
The hell's up with the narrator?
Nice video and everything, but your voice is definitely not for this. consider a writing career, or a silent film revival.
Jergus whoever you are stop talking