Unreleased black and white games!

Auty

Auty

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Today i stumbled upon this webpage about the PS1 version of black and white:

http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/Products/PSX/blackwhite/

Although this was mostly information i had read before one thing caught my attention "Released: Q4 2001".
I thought that this version of the game was never released but the comments on the page seem to back up the fact that it was. :S

Could anybody shed some light on this and tell me if Black & White PS1 was ever released, any responses are greatly appreciated :) 
 
The Play Station version was what originally brought my attention to Black & White.  I didn't really have a great PC at the time, but did have the console. So I was persistently waiting for the PS version to come out until I managed to get my hands on a newer PC almost a year after the game was released.  So I was late to the party, but still had a good time :D .

Although, I have it stuck it my head that it was meant for the PS2, not the PS1.  Meh.

Also, I recall that after B&W1, Lionhead took another shot at developing a console tie-in.  Although this time (if I remember correctly), you would control a prophet who would sit atop your creature and you you'd directly control him instead.  As we all know, that didn't really turn out well either :suspect :laugh2 .
 
Lionhead was good at cancelling B&W games  Next Generation & Titans for Console.
B&W 3/4/5 for the PC  :(
 
Seen a similar page before, and it's indeed confusing.  Anyone know how far along LH got before cancelling the PS1 version?

Oh, it looks like they also intended to release it for the Dreamcast.  That didn't work out either.  I'm kind of glad BW1 came out solely for PC (hooray for modding).  Granted, it would have gotten a lot more exposure if it had been a multiplatform endeavour....

EDIT:  oh wow, a spin-off called Black & White Creatures was intended for PSP.  I wonder why all these other games were cancelled.
 
Thanks for the reply's :)

I also found some demonstrations of some of the cancelled games, it seems strange that they would cancel them so far into development :/
 
I'm guessing it was down to a lack of proficiency at developing for other platforms.

My guess is that they started PC development with only the roughest idea of how to then get it onto a console and then kept realising that they went about it the wrong way.  So they kept going back to where they were strongest - PCs.

I find it telling that the only console they eventually managed to develop for was the XBox - a Microsoft platform which I would guess had at least some things in common (software-wise) with the Windows platform on the PC.
 
Black and White: The Next Generation for NGC!?
They must come out with this now, because I play Game Cube and I want more Black & White!
I, also, did not know the PS1 could render something of such graphical intensiveness.  ???

Auty said:
I also found some demonstrations of some of the cancelled games, it seems strange that they would cancel them so far into development :/
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Really? :shocked Where, on Youtube?
 
Black and white: Titan demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9BHRQxWwN8
Interview with Peter Molyneux about B&W PS1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YT50bdpCMA
 
this is the only bad thing they made with black&white that they never released it to psx and ps2 and dreamcast "xbox ?" the tiger looks better and and also the temple looks cooler , but black&White is still a awesome game :D
 
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