It was quietly cancelled and never heard earlier this month when Volition published a video about Saints Row: Undercover, along with links to the official design document and a walkthrough, on its Youtube channel.Įarlier today Volition live streamed the prototype game on its Twitch channel, showing off the game and talking about what was planned, had it made it all the way to release. Today Volition decided to open up that world of game prototypes to everyone, with the surprise release of the prototype version of Saints Row: Undercover for the PlayStation Portable in conjunction with Unseen64.Ī PSP version of Saints Row was first rumored back in July 2009, with an estimated release date of March 2010, but the game itself never game to fruition. Not to mention the fact that unreleased games usually don’t play on retail systems. Collectors have to search out rescued discs (it’s not unusual for hardcore collectors to dumpster dive whenever publishers move offices) and trade games with others in what is often something of a gray area of the law. It’s not unusual for members of the media to play cancelled games, as not every title makes it to retail release, but the media is often given direct access to those games. I can't wait to give it a play myself.Game prototypes have long been a source of fascination with collectors.

While I wasn't encouraging the downloading and playing of the stolen Battlefront leak, Volition has released this to the public themselves so that it can be played and archived as part of their most successful series. However, if you are either lucky or wealthy enough to own a developer's kit it should run like a dream. Reports are showing that modded PSP 2000's capable of running ISOs aren't handling it too well though. Well, at least as fine as a prototype build of a game can run. So far the ISO has been tested on the PPSSPP emulator and seems to run just fine. This isn't a release build by any stretch of the imagination, and much like the leaked build of Star Wars Battlefront III we posted last week, playing it will take a bit of work. Volition, being the cool dudes that they are, have released a playable ISO of their previously unreleased PSP game, Saints Row: Undercover.

This likely happened well before the buyout, but it makes me sad that it never saw the light of day. Somewhere along the way an entry in the Saints Row franchise fell by the wayside. So when THQ was announcing their closure, I was very happy to hear Volition was getting picked up by Deep Silver. The series combines all of my favorite things: open world exploration, character customization, unique weapons, and humor. Saints Row 2 was one of the first games I ever actually logged multiple hundreds of hours into. I have been madly in love with Volition's Saints Row series since the second installment.

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