Acclaim's The Red Star

This was a title for the original xbox that apparently was canned (despite being completed) when Acclaim closed it's doors. I had the chance to play this game on an xbox demo disc within a store a long while ago and *really* enjoyed it. I was curious if there were any details regarding what actually happened to this game and the possibility of a revival.

Thanks in advance.

 

As far as i know it was completed and the pal version of it was dumped. A shame really i played it at a comic con awhile back and it seemed fantastic.

 

The demo I got to play at the Toys R Us kiosk was awesome. I was *very* excited for this. If the PAL version was dumped, possibly know where to get ahold of it (I've checked typical channels). I'd seriously be willing to pay full retail (hell I'll send a check to the developer if I do find it) just for the download of it. If anyone has the demo/kiosk dvd with this on it, I'd be willing to purchase that as well.

 

It got picked up by someone, i forget who. I expect it to be released at some point.

 

By saying you expect it to be released im presuming you mean retail, as the PAL dump is ntsc compatable.

 

It got picked up? Crazy. It's been literally off the radar for over a year now, aside from the occasional posting acknowledging the fact that no one knows where this title went.

Now that we've established that there is a dump of it, is anyone willing to share?

(to the mods: I know I'm new, however, please don't take this as soliciting pirated material... just really interested in a game that I would gladly purchase, if given the opportunity)

 

Actually, it got picked up a while ago i think. Either just before or just after acclaim went under.

 

I was very impressed with the game, especially considering it came from the dreaded Acclaim. If it ever does get released, I'll go out and pick up a copy.

 

I was never really impressed with it. ALthough I am not really into that style of fighting game.

I have the debug build so I know Accalim had it at least in that state for NTSC. Be interesting to see if anyone releases it. I was happy to see Combat Elite and Juiced get released.

 

I've never seen any confirmation other than what I got myself, so I'll just repeat it:

At San Diego Comic-Con last year, the team told me explicitly that the game had been picked up by a publisher, and would be released "soon." They refused to tell me who that publisher was, for obvious NDA reasons.

This was nearly a year ago now, so my personal assumption at this point is that the game isn't coming out.

 

I don't want to throw this too off-topic, but does anyone know if Combat Elite has any wierd popup issues? My Acclaim review copy has some pretty bad popup (for example, sometimes it takes up to three seconds for the terrain to load up).

 

Probably, its the same thing when they had intial d for ps2 at the tokyopop booth, i asked the guy if sega was planing on bring it to the us and he said yea but hey hadn't decided on a date. I remember before xbox came out they had it for demo at a sobe booth, and the reps were telling everyone it will be able to play dreamcast games. Point being is info at times there can be dodgy or not firm.

 

Yeah, a guy at work had this game (the Red Star) going at work, the build looked pretty complete to me, I'd say 98% or so (there were still some little issues in the menus and such.) Pretty good game. He alluded to it being availible online, have to ask him where exactly next time I see him.

 

Please do, it would be very much appreciated!

 

I don't see a pal version anywhere.

 

I already saw this game avaiable on the net...

 

its around 1.15gb.. dunno how complete it is.. it was doing the rounds about a year ago (title screen says (c) 2004 acclaim / 2000 microsoft). its like a 3d side scrolling shooter, with top down shooter elements in the boss stages (feels almost like this game should have been on the dreamcast)..

 

thats it... fairly complete, as someone else said a few things are buggy, also parts of the game are HARD AS HELL

 

and there iam wondering what would someone do with 150 copys of that game =)