Viewpoint 2064, the cancelled sequel to Neo Geo's Viewpoint for N64 has been leaked online

[Hayama Akito]

I honestly don't know if there's problems with prototype leaks here on ERA but there's a lot of threads about fantranslations and other unreleased stuff like StarCraft Ghost already so...

Viewpoint 2064 (N64, Unreleased) – Gaming Alexandria

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Gaming site "Gaming Alexandria" has released an online ROM image of a prototype of Viewpoint 2064, the sadly unreleased sequel to the wonderful Aicom's Viewpoint for Neo Geo. It was made by Sammy around mid 1999 but sadly was cancelled in 2000. Nintendo 64 is notoriously known for having an extremely weak and mediocre catalog of traditional STG/Shmups titles, so this sure will surprise a lot of people.

Someone already played the game with an extensive review:



The game is playable, it is almost finished and is working on emulators and flashcards. Also the soundtrack was ripped and it's pretty decent, if you want to check it out.

 

[Deleted member 13560]

Damn... This game kind of reminds me of RayForce and RayStorm for some reason. It actually looks pretty good.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

extremely weak and mediocre? I liked Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth quite a bit, actually.

 

[Video Games Are Dumb]

Early 3D SNK games always make me feel weird cause I assume they play great (the controls are always top notch) but they have the washed out pallet of late 90's Midway. Bleh.

 

[zma1013]

That boxart though. Looks like it was designed by 10 different people.

 

[Tailzo]

Looks good :)

 

[j^aws]

Looks lame, a mashup of subgenres, ugly as sin ‐ looks nothing like the beautiful isometric original.

Cringe at shoot-em-up pronounced IRL as 'shoomuuup'.

 

[Futaleufu]

Not surprised it was cancelled, it looks like an early PS1 game and it plays like an on rails game from the early 90s.

 

[fiendcode]

Always interested in stuff like this seeing the light of day. Now where's Rev Limit?

extremely weak and mediocre? I liked Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth quite a bit, actually.

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Don't forget Bangaioh, even though I prefer the DC port and DS sequel.

Also Starfox 64 and Sin & Punishment should probably count for something.

 

[EVIL]

That boxart though. Looks like it was designed by 10 different people.

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looks like an early mockup, you def don;t have box art finished when your game is still in prototype phase, and the upscale smoothing filter doesn't do it any justice either

 

[arcadepc]

Reminds me of the sequel of Game Tengoku using also 3d models and looking and playing worse than the original

 

[pulsemyne]

Always interested in stuff like this seeing the light of day. Now where's Rev Limit?


Don't forget Bangaioh, even though I prefer the DC port and DS sequel.

Also Starfox 64 and Sin & Punishment should probably count for something.

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Rev limit was leaked but it was never close to finished. I think it was about 40 to 60 percent done. Pity really as it actually looked really nice.

 

[Just Great]

The original Viewpoint had a legendary soundtrack, my initial thoughts of this one is that only a handful of songs standout and they don't have the vibe of the original.

 

[Deleted member 17210]

Don't forget Bangaioh, even though I prefer the DC port and DS sequel.

Also Starfox 64 and Sin & Punishment should probably count for something.

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Those are great ones. S&P is one of my favourite games of all time but I don't think it's controversial to say the Nintendo 64 has a weak shooter line up compared to the Saturn and Playstation, though.

I will check out this Viewpoint game.

 

[fiendcode]

Woah, I never knew Rev Limit leaked! Wow.

Those are great ones. S&P is one of my favourite games of all time but I don't think it's controversial to say the Nintendo 64 has a weak shooter line up compared to the Saturn and Playstation, though.

I will check out this Viewpoint game.

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Oh yeah, I'd agree with N64 being super weak overall in comparison to Saturn and PS1. The fact you can count it's notable shmups on one hand (Star Fox 64, Sin & Punishment, Star Soldier 64, Bangaoh, Dezaemon 3D) gives that away. But it still had that handful of stuff at least and two of those are genre greats too imo.

 

[tzare]

Ohhh i want it. SNK please, deliver a full NG collection for consoles. And add as extras some unfinished games and projects please.

Pd. To be fair the original seems much better, so great ost and really difficult.

 

[s_mirage]

Interesting, but looks kind of meh. It doesn't look very exciting at all, and I can see why it was cancelled.

 

[Platy]

always a happy day when a unreleased game leaks

Star Wars Rogue Leaders next pls

 

[Ferrs]

Doesn't look bad IMO? But it's missing the baller soundtrack of the first game. Shit slapped hard

 

[Celine]

Great and unexpected news though the prototype was unearthed a few years ago.

Full soundtrack:

extremely weak and mediocre? I liked Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth quite a bit, actually.

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It had some banging music for sure.

N64 had very few shmups so that's probably what Hayama Akito meant (yeah, yeah I know that Star Fox 64 is the best selling shmups ever but the point still stand).

 

[Cthulhu_Steev]

Doesn't look bad IMO? But it's missing the baller soundtrack of the first game. Shit slapped hard

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Can't stop laughing at the tunes and that perfectly chosen JJ & FP gif