Unreleased Activision X-Men fighter for PS1 uncovered.

[Mr. Pointy]

It's by Syrox Developments. It predated Mutant Academy. It's a 3D fighter kind of like Bloody Roar, as opposed to be a 2.5D fighter. The idea of the mirror match giving you a different character name (2P mirror Wolverine is Logan) is cool.

There is also a N64 port of this, but this PS1 version looks so much better.

 

[Tizoc]

Woooooah
Thanks for the vid will give it a watch now.

 

[Kapryov]

Watching now, it looks surprisingly awesome. Further along than I was expecting.

 

[Mr. Pointy]

It's still a 30fps fighter, but it doesn't seem to have that cardboard cut out animation look to it, like Toshinden.

 

[Inugami]

Honestly looks pretty forgettable, but I'm always down for more unreleased video games. I eat this shit up.

 

[L Thammy]

The idea of the mirror match giving you a different character name (2P mirror Wolverine is Logan) is cool.

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There are a few fighting games that have done things like this. Breakers gave a different name to every mirror match character, Endless Duel would swap out some pilots in story mode (Trowa would pilot the Wing if playing as either of Heero's Gundams, while Heero would pilot the Epyon as the final boss if playing as Zechs).

 

[Deleted member 23212]

Hmm, I can't tell who everyone is from the select screen, does anyone have a list?

 

[Bunzy]

Makes me want another xmen game so bad. I wish we would get an xmen legends port on newer consoles. Hopefully Disney has given the license to someone to make a badass game no matter what the genre is

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Hmm, I can't tell who everyone is from the select screen, does anyone have a list?

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From what I can guess.

1st row - Wolverine, Apocalypse, Emma Frost?, Iceman, Beast
2nd row - Mr Sinister, Cable, Gambit, Sabretooth, Cyclops
bottom 2 - Jean Grey, Magneto

 

[erlim]

I actually liked the 2.5D fighters, so I'm glad their franchise went in that direction for that little while. However, I love this videogame archaeology stuff!

 

[Platy]

Weird to have Apocalypse of all people as one of the early developed characters

 

[Borman]

Didn't even see this video get picked up, glad everyone is enjoying it! Hoping to have more to show for it soon...

 

[Mandos]

Weird to have Apocalypse of all people as one of the early developed characters

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It's based off the 90's cartoon so less surprising

 

[Pyro]

That's really cool, and is that a first person mode?

 

[dlauv]

Mutant Academy was really good for a Western fighter at the time.

 

[Drayco21]

This looks kinda generic, but seems like it could've been a big deal at the time. The alt costumes and names are a neat idea. Always cool when stuff like this sees the light of day.

 

[Borman]

That's really cool, and is that a first person mode?

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Yep, as a debug option! Glad someone noticed.

This looks kinda generic, but seems like it could've been a big deal at the time. The alt costumes and names are a neat idea. Always cool when stuff like this sees the light of day.

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Generic by today's standards, but there werent that many 3d fighters to go off of that were made for console first, let alone superhero ones. I have at least one design document for the game, so once I get one of these other builds going, there will be a huge video covering what is and what was intended to be.