Unreleased Vectorman Playstation 2 by Pseudo Interactive (September 29, 2002 Prototype) 

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This version looks like if another game made a joke or parody version of Vectorman.

@@plasmaoctopus1728It looks like a fake game that you'd see someone playing in a TV show. It literally looks like animated CG bullshit and not like an actual game that a person controls. Even the sound effects sound fake. Like this is what a person makes a video game look and sound like when they have no idea what actual video games at the time were like

@@zrexx9428 It's a prototype...... the sfx are almost certainly placeholder......

@@zrexx9428 and the music from ocremix

Yeah this would have worked.

He deserved a better chance. He only got axed for being "too American", I think. He was Sega of America's child apparently.

You can download the game :)

I think its probably just that, Vectorman as a franchise IP probably just doesn't have a lot of appeal. I dunno, it just seems like a game that would be hard to market to people. Maybe it's just me because I personally never cared about Vectorman, but Vectorman seems like one of those games that only managed to be sellable at the time it came out in. It basically sold itself entirely because gimmicky advancements in graphics technology were in. Vectorman was sort of like the "Donkey Kong Country" of the Genesis in that the main selling point was it was doing very experimental fancy stuff graphically. But whereas Donkey Kong Country still had a lot of unique or at least interesting gimmicks (e.g. partner system, animal buddies, certain level design tropes like the use of barrels to launch yourself), Vectorman was mostly a generic game, basically almost your run of the mill side-to-side shooting platformer game. It had very little to sell itself on beyond just the novelty of the graphics. Not even the artstyle had a lot going for it... just literally how technologically impressive it was at the time. It was like the obsession with wireframes they had for a time... it was literally mostly from a technological standpoint that everyone was like "wowww" at wireframe 3D graphics but once the impressiveness wears off, it's not something people are begging to come back to y'know. I guess my point is, who really exists as a demographic to the game sell to? Like I myself am a nut for run n' gun action heavy games. But you'd have an easier time marketing, say, newer Gunstar Heroes games if you wanted to do a "modernized run n' gun" as opposed to doing another Vectorman. You have to look at it like this. The "arcade shooting" genre, or however you want to label it, was already kinda niche in the PS2 era. Franchises like Contra survived but they had to stylize themselves and try new things and even just an IP like Contra just has more universal appeal. Considering that PS2 games were expensive back then like games are expensive nowadays, making a new Vectorman was just kinda like, asking to be a failure. At least it would've been hugely risky. I kinda liked when developers would make newer titles that have a more classic sorta style to them. Super Monkeyball was a great example where they did something novel but for all intents and purposes it was a small-scale arcade-style game built on a very simple concept. Any game with that "retro feel", that has that kind of simpleness, was inherently at a disadvantage during that era where people wanted to buy bigger, larger, and more complex games. Your game needed a certain style or interesting concept to make it work. But Vectorman just didn't have that and I think Sega knew that. The only thing they could've done was market on nostalgia (e.g. PS1 frogger) but Vectorman wasn't like a widely known classic. When you think about it, it's even kinda surprising that they managed to make games like the 3D Shinobi games on PS2 (though I don't know whether those were flops or not). It's really just about the climate these games were being released in that made it difficult

We didn't pay any attention

I think the menus are also the same

@@LorenzoVDH1996 the same yes, menu change whith the Halo-Like prototypes

Yeah.. I worked on that Prototype. We had hope to get a cel Damage 2 game. And David Wu the president was a big fan of Vectorman. I would have been happy if we stayed more true to the original Designs... but Sega decided to shift it away to more Halo. Because of focus group testing. sigh

@@kidchuckle It's good to know devs share my disdain for focus groups and their awful taste.

Try the Halo Like prototypes, they're good. It should have been called something other than Vectorman.

I could add it to my article on Vectorman 3.14. I'll do it next week. I've already set up a player to listen to it: www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/vectorman-playstation-2-unreleased-first-look-iso

Apart from the remix of the Mega Drive song (there is a player on the page dedicated to the first prototype of Vectorman 3.14), it's all commercial music. I prefer to avoid creating mirrors on my site. Almost all my Vectorman PS2 videos are subject to music copyright :)

It's an updated version of the Tidal Surge music from the first Vectorman game

music of few prototypes

yes

In the download section of the main page. Follow the blue links. Play them on a PS2 emulator.

We were able to modify it, taking this Vectorman model to replace the model from another build. It took us a long time to do it. We were also able to modify the text that appears on the screen in the roller coaster build

I can see that with the (mostly) flat lighting and stuff.

It's multiplayer mode

Thats Skully from Cel Damage!

Yes, you can download it here: www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/vectorman-playstation-2-unreleased-first-look-iso There are 11 prototypes in total.

@@segadreamcastinfo3971 11?!? I thought there was only 1! This doesn't include the lost one from sega saturn, right?

@@Woobuggy848 no just for Playstation 2

After the reboot of his development yes but before Vectorman PS2 look like this video.

You can download it in my articles...

@@segadreamcastinfo3971 I meant like an actual release yk