Unreleased Vectorman Playstation 2 by Pseudo Interactive (September 29, 2002 Prototype)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2025
- Like Sonic, Mario and Zelda before him, Vectorman (famous robot from SEGA on the Mega Drive) should have had its transition from 2D to 3D on Playstation 2. Today, please find 11 prototypes and a few Game Design Documents for this Unreleased PS2 game !
Developed by Pseudo Interactive (the same as Full Auto on Xbox 360), the game would ultimately be cancelled. Maybe it looked too much like the Master Chief of the Microsoft game Halo !
Initially, the game was more in line with the two previous Mega Drive episodes, one of the elements retained being the aesthetics of Vectorman's orb. This more faithful approach lasted only 3 or 4 months before development was restarted.
You can download several Playstation 2 prototypes for Vectorman and read all about my research by following this link:
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You can download several Playstation 2 prototypes for Vectorman and read all about my research by following this link:
en.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/unreleased-vectorman-playstation2-prototype-iso
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This is 2000s as hell, and I *LOVE* it.
I love how everything bounces to the beat.
As a hardcore Vectorman fan, I would have happily played the hell out of this. I love how he dances and struts to the beat of the music. He's got that funny green man energy he had from the first game.
...this is surprisingly better than the footage that leaked earlier. It at least resembles a Vectorman game, with a character that resembles Vectorman. The most distracting things here are the arm poses and those ridiculously long strides he's taking.
Yeah this would have worked.
Vectorman’s original design was still way better than it was before.
This version looks like if another game made a joke or parody version of Vectorman.
@@plasmaoctopus1728It looks like a fake game that you'd see someone playing in a TV show.
It literally looks like animated CG bullshit and not like an actual game that a person controls. Even the sound effects sound fake. Like this is what a person makes a video game look and sound like when they have no idea what actual video games at the time were like
@@zrexx9428 It's a prototype...... the sfx are almost certainly placeholder......
@@zrexx9428 and the music from ocremix
@@zrexx9428 Yeah, as the other guy said. Its a prototype. It was likely a 1 person or small group that put the prototype together and grabbed stock sounds real quick to get everything working to create a presentation for Sega.
I found ALL the music in the game. Here's the list how they appear in the prototype:
Intro theme: The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home (Underworld Mix I)
Music 1: Vectorman - Ocean (Remix) (Only made for this game)
Music 2: DJ Tom Stevens - Odysee
Music 3: Rodd-Y-Ler - Lifesigns
Music 4: DJ Jan - X-Santo
Music 5 (Boss): Cocooma - Virtual Experience
Music 6 (Level Complete): Opus III - Evolution Rush
Two of my all-time favourites on the Genesis. An absolute tragedy that the series never continued beyond that. Fingers crossed with all these Sega sequels and reboots in the works that my boy finally gets brought back!
He deserved a better chance. He only got axed for being "too American", I think. He was Sega of America's child apparently.
What a shame this never came out, it looks like it had so much potential for a 3d Vectorman although it’s direction shift in the later prototypes unfortunately would’ve been what was released so maybe it was for the best.
Interestingly enough looking at all thiese prototypes in order is a clear example of Vision vs. Company around the 2000’s.
Seeing this im hopng this franchise is on Sega's list of the revivals theyre doing.
Why did they cancel that ???!!!!
Fun fact: They used sound effects from Cel Damage as placeholders.
We didn't pay any attention
I think the menus are also the same
@@LorenzoVDH1996 the same yes, menu change whith the Halo-Like prototypes
Yeah.. I worked on that Prototype. We had hope to get a cel Damage 2 game. And David Wu the president was a big fan of Vectorman. I would have been happy if we stayed more true to the original Designs... but Sega decided to shift it away to more Halo. Because of focus group testing. sigh
@@kidchuckle It's good to know devs share my disdain for focus groups and their awful taste.
HONEY!!! IT'S BEEN FOUND!!!!
HE'S CUTIE
It feels like the footage is running a bit slow to me.
Might be because of the editing but I do think that the game could look a bit better with a slight increase in animation speed.
I also feel like there was a missed opportunity to apply cel shading because with the more conventional lighting shown here the game looks a bit flat and a revision of the art direction would elevate the simplistic environments and character models and make the graphics pop a bit more.
I loved Vectorman on the Genesis and it is awesome to see a prototype of the unreleased Vectorman 3D. I'm curious as to why development on it was cancelled. I would love to see a reboot of Vectorman on modern consoles even it has been nearly thirty years since the first game. Sega seems to rebooting many other classic franchises, so why not Vectorman?
I think its probably just that, Vectorman as a franchise IP probably just doesn't have a lot of appeal. I dunno, it just seems like a game that would be hard to market to people. Maybe it's just me because I personally never cared about Vectorman, but Vectorman seems like one of those games that only managed to be sellable at the time it came out in. It basically sold itself entirely because gimmicky advancements in graphics technology were in.
Vectorman was sort of like the "Donkey Kong Country" of the Genesis in that the main selling point was it was doing very experimental fancy stuff graphically. But whereas Donkey Kong Country still had a lot of unique or at least interesting gimmicks (e.g. partner system, animal buddies, certain level design tropes like the use of barrels to launch yourself), Vectorman was mostly a generic game, basically almost your run of the mill side-to-side shooting platformer game. It had very little to sell itself on beyond just the novelty of the graphics. Not even the artstyle had a lot going for it... just literally how technologically impressive it was at the time. It was like the obsession with wireframes they had for a time... it was literally mostly from a technological standpoint that everyone was like "wowww" at wireframe 3D graphics but once the impressiveness wears off, it's not something people are begging to come back to y'know.
I guess my point is, who really exists as a demographic to the game sell to? Like I myself am a nut for run n' gun action heavy games. But you'd have an easier time marketing, say, newer Gunstar Heroes games if you wanted to do a "modernized run n' gun" as opposed to doing another Vectorman. You have to look at it like this. The "arcade shooting" genre, or however you want to label it, was already kinda niche in the PS2 era. Franchises like Contra survived but they had to stylize themselves and try new things and even just an IP like Contra just has more universal appeal. Considering that PS2 games were expensive back then like games are expensive nowadays, making a new Vectorman was just kinda like, asking to be a failure. At least it would've been hugely risky.
I kinda liked when developers would make newer titles that have a more classic sorta style to them. Super Monkeyball was a great example where they did something novel but for all intents and purposes it was a small-scale arcade-style game built on a very simple concept. Any game with that "retro feel", that has that kind of simpleness, was inherently at a disadvantage during that era where people wanted to buy bigger, larger, and more complex games. Your game needed a certain style or interesting concept to make it work. But Vectorman just didn't have that and I think Sega knew that. The only thing they could've done was market on nostalgia (e.g. PS1 frogger) but Vectorman wasn't like a widely known classic.
When you think about it, it's even kinda surprising that they managed to make games like the 3D Shinobi games on PS2 (though I don't know whether those were flops or not). It's really just about the climate these games were being released in that made it difficult
I can only assume they were trying to pitch some ideas with this prototype, because those stages and gameplay are uninspired af.
Oh boy! I can't wait!
0:36 Remix of Tidal Surge yet again! (They know this music stuck)
I want his deep voice back!
3:34 Transformation! 7:31 DEAD! 8:09 Sidekick?
Damn, even if the direction shifted for Vectorman 3, they should have stuck to this direction and rolled w/ it. It has so much charm. Not very many games has inanimate objects, main characters and enemies moving to the music. The excuse that it looked like Halo too much isn't even a good excuse for how it got canned. Nothing about this screams Halo to me other than Vectorman being green.
Try the Halo Like prototypes, they're good. It should have been called something other than Vectorman.
Brian is happy- wait! This is the Cel Damage guys! Oh my God, Violet even came in at the end XD
this looks pretty promising, even if a little janky. Ill love to try it out
this would have been very fun on the playstation 2
I wonder if this was going to be as hard as the first two were.
This would be my gameplay if I were drunk and i don't mean to make fun of I actually love this and am very nostalgic right now 🙌😎
is there any way you can upload that Tidal Surge remix by itself? that's a really good song. sad this game never came out
I could add it to my article on Vectorman 3.14. I'll do it next week. I've already set up a player to listen to it:
www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/vectorman-playstation-2-unreleased-first-look-iso
Es increíble como aun la música de este juego sigue sonando como si estuviera en una sega genesis o megadrive
I’m sure fans can re create or mod this game and finish it. At the very least they can get the shooting and other gameplay mechanics down. Doesn’t seem hard at all.
We were able to modify it, taking this Vectorman model to replace the model from another build. It took us a long time to do it.
We were also able to modify the text that appears on the screen in the roller coaster build
THIS IS AWESOME!
2:38 + 3:28 : This stage's layout definitely reminds me of I-Ninja's "Rocket Factory" and "Grade in a Cage" stage layouts , am i the only one?
Yes to mention, it's double posted.
THERE WAS GOING TO BE A 3rd VECTORMAN?!?!?
yes
this is Gold
That music SLAPS!
Are you going to upload the soundtrack at some point in the future?
Apart from the remix of the Mega Drive song (there is a player on the page dedicated to the first prototype of Vectorman 3.14), it's all commercial music. I prefer to avoid creating mirrors on my site. Almost all my Vectorman PS2 videos are subject to music copyright :)
I really think he shouldve heen a reoccuring IP like Sonic did.
HOLY SHIT W H A T
I dig this a ton. Super blurry memory here, so the details on all this could be complete garbage: I remember one of the canceled Vectorman sequels was going to be this gritty shooter where the devs were talking about how all of limbs were now grafted on because of... I dunno mid 2000's edginess? I was just super confused reading it at the time wondering then how this guy was supposed to be Vectorman then? The whole point of the original games wasn't that he just shot a laser, it's he shot a laser while randomly turning into a bomb, tank, or a literal fly helicopter thing.
Can i actually try these out? I can't get any of the links to work.
In the download section of the main page. Follow the blue links. Play them on a PS2 emulator.
Is the music from the game or something you added yourself for the video?
It's an updated version of the Tidal Surge music from the first Vectorman game
Looks like Smarties Meltdown.
Wish this one would have released.
Menos mal que no se hizo. Lejos esta de rendirle verdaderamente tributo al de la sega genesis.
Meltingman234 would love this.
Vectorman! \:'v/
Where did you find that tidal surge remix?
music of few prototypes
A unused sidekick for vectorman? 8:17
It's multiplayer mode
Thats Skully from Cel Damage!
I'm getting some Bubsy 3D vibes. :)
I can see that with the (mostly) flat lighting and stuff.
Awesome
He looks like he's stoned haha
Is this a real prototype?
Yes, you can download it here:
www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/vectorman-playstation-2-unreleased-first-look-iso
There are 11 prototypes in total.
@@segadreamcastinfo3971 11?!? I thought there was only 1! This doesn't include the lost one from sega saturn, right?
@@Woobuggy848 no just for Playstation 2
this has to be fake, the canceled Vetorman 3 looked like a 3rd person master chief/halo game.
After the reboot of his development yes but before Vectorman PS2 look like this video.
El diseño de vectorman no me convence pese a su similitud me parece mas feo al diseño original de vectorman 1 y 2,me refiero al que aparece en la portada del 2 y junto a su animación inicial, lo siento inferior, mas considerando que la idea de su diseño es estar conformado por orbes de ahí a que se llamen orbots, hubiera preferido el original.
More like partying
Oooo im killing myself
this looks klunky
the game seems a bit meh but I still wish it got released
You can download it in my articles...
@@segadreamcastinfo3971 I meant like an actual release yk
Gross
😢ps2 Vectorman💩
Should have stayed on the sega genesis 3D games were crap