Post by Anthony on Jul 7, 2016 18:24:50 GMT
'Lost' footage from game set in Ancient Rome emerges. FOOTAGE from a failed Call of Duty game has been found and shows the series ditching the guns in favour of first-person sword combat.
Footage has emerged of a Call of Duty game set in Ancient Rome.
Call of Duty: Roman Wars was set for a 2013 release on PlayStation and Xbox consoles before getting axed.
But developers had progressed long enough for there to be a working demo of the first and third-person fighting game.
And now video of the rudimentary title has emerged showing what CoD fans could have experienced had Activision gone ahead with the game.
New York based game maker Vicarious Visions was developing Roman Wars for Activision.
It now works on successful toys-to-life series Skylanders and the upcoming Crash Bandicoot remaster's coming to PS4 in 2017.
But back in 2009 it submitted the pitch for a Roman themed CoD which aimed for release four years later.
Roman Wars would reportedly have focused on Julius Caesar’s 10th legion, a cavalry unit that was Caesar’s most trusted legion.
The unit was featured heavily in Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentary on the Gallic War), Caesar’s firsthand account of the wars he fought against various Gallic tribes from 58-50 B.C., and Roman Wars’ story was reportedly based on that work.
A GamesRadar source named only as "Polemus" described a prototype for the pitch, a single level based on 52 B.C.’s Battle of Alesia.
The goal was to take out archers, and the player could have accomplished that objective by using catapults, siege towers or "war elephants" — which the player could ride as they trampled enemies on the battlefield.
"You were going to play a lead centurion, you were going to play a grunt and you were going to play all the way up to Julius Caesar himself," Polemus told GamesRadar.
Sadly the idea was deemed too far from a typical Call of Duty game and not followed through
Footage has emerged of a Call of Duty game set in Ancient Rome.
Call of Duty: Roman Wars was set for a 2013 release on PlayStation and Xbox consoles before getting axed.
But developers had progressed long enough for there to be a working demo of the first and third-person fighting game.
And now video of the rudimentary title has emerged showing what CoD fans could have experienced had Activision gone ahead with the game.
New York based game maker Vicarious Visions was developing Roman Wars for Activision.
It now works on successful toys-to-life series Skylanders and the upcoming Crash Bandicoot remaster's coming to PS4 in 2017.
But back in 2009 it submitted the pitch for a Roman themed CoD which aimed for release four years later.
Roman Wars would reportedly have focused on Julius Caesar’s 10th legion, a cavalry unit that was Caesar’s most trusted legion.
The unit was featured heavily in Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentary on the Gallic War), Caesar’s firsthand account of the wars he fought against various Gallic tribes from 58-50 B.C., and Roman Wars’ story was reportedly based on that work.
A GamesRadar source named only as "Polemus" described a prototype for the pitch, a single level based on 52 B.C.’s Battle of Alesia.
The goal was to take out archers, and the player could have accomplished that objective by using catapults, siege towers or "war elephants" — which the player could ride as they trampled enemies on the battlefield.
"You were going to play a lead centurion, you were going to play a grunt and you were going to play all the way up to Julius Caesar himself," Polemus told GamesRadar.
Sadly the idea was deemed too far from a typical Call of Duty game and not followed through