Cancelled Projects
The four initial GameCube projects Retro had before the development of Metroid Prime were cancelled:
- An action-adventure game with the working title "Action-Adventure". It was mostly concept artwork and a mock up first-person engine before cancellation, but allegedly inspired Shigeru Miyamoto to hand Retro the Metroid license. The development team moved onto production of Metroid Prime.
- An American football game, NFL Retro Football. The game designers initially wanted to make a Mario Football game, but Nintendo settled on a realistic simulator with the NFL license due to Retro's purpose of creating mature games. The game was cancelled in February 2001. A possible cause was Electronic Arts and Sega agreeing to port the Madden NFL and NFL 2K series to the GameCube.
- A vehicular combat game, with the working titles Car Combat and Thunder Rally. It was initially pitched to Nintendo as a mix of "QuakeWorld, Twisted Metal 2, and Mario Kart 64 with shades of Mad Max and Street Fighter II." Despite being the project with most progress at Retro, it was cancelled along with NFL Retro Football in February 2001. Two members of the development team, programmer David "Zoid" Kirsch and modeller Rick Kohler, joined the Metroid Prime project.
- A role-playing video game, Raven Blade. The game was showcased on E3 2001, but production was plagued with technical setbacks, and the game eventually got cancelled on July 2001 so Retro could focus on Metroid Prime. 9 members of its development team joined Prime.
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