Concept art, info on canned zombie game 'Gunhero'

Sorry to say, Joystiq, the original box art is much better.

Zombie games are so boss.

"palette of abandonment"
Read: more of the brown and gray we've grown tired of in the past 6 years.

I love the look of it.

Cancellations are always so damn depressing, especially if the game looked like it had potential. Even if it looked crappy, surely someone could have done something with it.

In the past few months, we've seen a bunch of games cancelled in the wake of the earthquake/tsunami/meltdown in Japan. For me in particular, Gun Loco and Bumpy Trot 2 stuck out as heart-wrenching. Sure, Gun Loco looked to be a 7/10 at best, but at least they were trying something crazy (loco, if you will). As for Bumpy Trot 2, man... I'm a fan of the first, and seeing it on a current-gen console would have been amazing. Why did they have to cancel it, after 5/6 years since they announced it? Some games, like Disaster Report, were simply at the wrong place in the wrong time. Unless Bumpy Trot 2's plot also revolved around natural and nuclear disaster, I don't see why they had to do it.

My secret hope is that they're simply keeping these game ideas in the back of their minds, having 6 guys brainstorming ideas for it and making prototypes. However, history has usually proven that cancelled is cancelled. Instead of depriving people of games such as these, how about you just sell off the property to someone who wants it? If anything, that would have been the best thing that could've happened to Gun Loco, especially if it went to a Western developer. As for Bumpy Trot 2, it being a sequel would've been harder to sell off, but at the very least just outsource it! It's unbelievably cruel to rip the rug from underneath people like that.

I'd like to emphasize that I'm making light of the horrible disaster in Japan, but merely focusing on the game industry side of things.