Almost 20 years after the superhero motion recreation was unceremoniously canceled, a playable prototype for Daredevil: The Man With out Worry has appeared on-line. Developed by the now-defunct 5,000 Ft. Studios, the beat ‘em up title would have seen gamers getting into the footwear of the titular superhero to cease a gang struggle that’s enveloped Hell’s Kitchen.
A playable PS2 prototype for the canceled Daredevil: The Man With out Worry recreation has been posted on-line
As reported by Eurogamer, new footage of Daredevil: The Man With out Worry has proven up on-line together with a playable prototype of the PlayStation 2 model of the sport. The prototype, which was posted to online game archive website Hidden Palace, provides avid gamers an opportunity to check out the Marvel superhero recreation almost twenty years after its cancellation. Whereas the sport is reportedly rife with bugs, with Hidden Palace noting that glitches could cause gamers to clip by partitions, a lot of the content material that was completed previous to Daredevil: The Man With out Worry’s cancellation is seemingly accessible within the leaked copy.
Initially meant to function a free assortment of among the most iconic moments from the protagonist’s lengthy profession as a superhero, Daredevil: The Man With out Worry was a third-person motion title deliberate for launch on PC, PS2, and Xbox. Following the announcement of a Daredevil film starring Ben Affleck, the scale and scope of the sport ballooned drastically resulting in quite a few manufacturing delays.
Deliberate for a February 2003 launch to coincide with Affleck’s movie, the sport was repeatedly pushed again earlier than Daredevil: The Man With out Worry was canceled outright following the departure of a number of 5,000 Ft. Studios builders and Marvel’s refusal to approve its launch. The completed recreation would have seen gamers acrobatically flipping and combating by Hell’s Kitchen to attempt to carry an finish to a gang struggle that erupted following the obvious assassination of felony mastermind, Kingpin.
Whereas avid gamers won’t ever get an opportunity to see what a completely completed model of Daredevil: The Man With out Worry might have been, at the least there’s nonetheless hope for the Marvel hero to make a long-awaited return to gaming. Following years of rumors about Daredevil making an look in Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man collection, it seems the crime-fighting lawyer could quickly have a cameo. Latest remarks from Insomniac’s Senior Inventive Director Bryan Intihar relating to a Daredevil Easter Egg in Spider-Man 2 trace that crossover content material could possibly be within the works, with Intihar telling avid gamers to “Keep tuned.”