One of our favorite things about the newly released Rare Replay video game anthology was that it included some really cool archival footage and interviews about classic Rare games like Blast Corps and Battletoads, along with a meaty chunk of canceled game concepts. Unfortunately, one of our least favorite things about the anthology was how heavily it locked up all of that footage behind some very, very tough achievements—particularly the canceled-game footage.
Most of the collection's achievements require nearly 100 percent completion of particular games, so we wondered how long it'd take intrepid players to climb up to achievement levels 18 and above; trust us, those are high levels. The answer? Not even a day. Right now, four of the game's locked-up canceled-game videos reside at YouTube, detailing projects that all appear to have been started after the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2002.
Our favorite of these canceled game designs is Black Widow, whose footage we've linked at the top. The open-world adventure game would have put players in an eight-legged robot that could crawl on most any wall and destroy many of the buildings it ran into, all while blasting missiles and dodging lasers. The Black Widow video contains more actual gameplay than the rest of the posted videos thus far, and its narrator mentioned how the robo-spider would have gotten a new lease on life by way of an appearance in Kameo 2, which also received a Rare Replay canceled-game reveal.
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