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Needed another 8-12 months to finish.

Warner Bros. has canned former Midway title This Is Vegas despite the game being less than a year from completion, according to a report.

CVG claims that Midway had spent "in the region of $43 million up to the point when it was being sold to WB" last year.

Last August Warner Bros. denied the game had been cancelled after a retailer pulled listings and told customers it was dead and buried.

Developer Surreal Software was closed down earlier this year.

What would This Is Vegas have been like? Check out our preview from April 2008 for a glimpse, or watch its final E3 trailer below.

This isn't Vegas.

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Deckard1 #1 2 years ago

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It always looked shit to be fair.
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presh #2 2 years ago

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Maybe after spending $43 million they found a copy of GTA Vice City down the back of the sofa and realised what fools they had been.
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CaptainQuint #3 2 years ago

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Like Lamborghini before it, This Is Vegas goes the way of James Dean. We barely knew thee.
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onezeonx #4 2 years ago

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think ill fold now then!
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metalangel #5 2 years ago

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"This is Vegas"? A simulation of a Mexican on every corner handing out business cards for "a prostitute to your room within 30 minutes"?
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BBIAJ #6 2 years ago

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Shame, I enjoyed The Suffering and it's sequel, I didn't realise that Surreal Software had even been closed down!

I was kind of looking forward to This Is Vegas out of curiosity, I remember them saying how there would be vacant lots or sites under construction, which would be filled at a later date with DLC.

Shame, ah well...
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riceNpea #7 2 years ago

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it can still be saved! surely some independant British company could snap it up on the cheap and release it as, 'This Is Blackpool'

it could feature:
pissed up northerners fighting over a bag of chips,
slutty girls, in sleevless tops and short skirts in the middle of winter, getting fingered on the promenade,
thousands of dirty,cheap B&Bs run by people currently on the sex register,
the worst illuminations since Stephen Hawkings put up his christmas lights,
and so much more....
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nuanimal #8 2 years ago

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"Vegas doesn't care for out-and-downers"

Bad pun form a bad film I know.
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TVoJ #9 2 years ago

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Praise the Gods of gaming for keeping this travesty away from us.
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Quint2020 #10 2 years ago

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It looked utter tripe from day 1 in my opinion.
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Chazmeister #11 2 years ago

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@BBIAJ

Yeah The Suffering was really good, it had some genuinly creepy spooky moments in amongst all the action. A far better horror action game than Fear ever was and yet it's practically forgotten now.

As for This is Vegas, I can't say I was ever taken by the idea for the game anyway.
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Tonasaurus #12 2 years ago

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$43m put to good use then! Has there ever been a successful Vegas based game (exc. Fallout)? Possibly an old Leisure Suite Larry?
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coolbritannia #13 2 years ago

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Rainbow Six: Vegas was pretty mint.
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Cider-X #14 2 years ago

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43 Million!?!?!
Remember, it's used games that are killing the industry... yeah right.
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riceNpea #15 2 years ago

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$43 million isn't much. you couldn't even buy Lionel Messi with it.
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dirtysteve #16 2 years ago

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God that looks awful, looks like they were right to cut their losses.
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kangarootoo #17 2 years ago

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This always looked like graphically polished nonsense. What was the game? A nicely rendered set of vega themed mini-games for $43m? Somebody at Warner took their eye off the ball.
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pickles4uk #18 2 years ago

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$43 million. what the hell did they spend that on, surely it couldn't have been developing the game?
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arcam #19 2 years ago

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What a horrifying waste of money.
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The_Beef_Hammer #20 2 years ago

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@riceNpea

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That's a winner!
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Shikasama #21 2 years ago

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For those who read the latest Robitorial this is actually a positive step. If RTW worlds had realised that APB wasn't any good and was bleeding money earlier in the project instead of burying their heads in the sand a lot of people might still be in work today.

Cancelling a rpoject that isn't going anywhere and cutting your costs is good management, regardless of how much it has already cost (which granted, may have been because of bad amanagement)
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arcam #22 2 years ago

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regardless of how much it has already cost (which granted, may have been because of bad amanagement)

Well, I think that's the reason people are shocked. Nothing wrong with cutting your losses of course, but the fact they spent $43m before they got to that point is pretty scandalous.
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eiocreative #23 2 years ago

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Watched the trailer, looked worse than awful.
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Markitron #24 2 years ago

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@metalangel

LOL, so true. Tho ye left out the part where they constantly flick the cards, making the most irritating sound I have ever heard
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iamian #25 2 years ago

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$43 million. what the hell did they spend that on...

Research trips for the whole dev team
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Osmond #26 2 years ago

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Shows how ruthless and risky game development is on this generation of HD consoles for devs and publishers alike. I wonder what the average cost of game development in the last generation ?
If anyone knows would be grateful for info.
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dirtysteve #27 2 years ago

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@iamian - think you nailed it there. This game looked like it started out as an attempt to recreate the lads trip to vegas, and ended up as some awful design-by-committee vegas 'experience'
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Invisible_Cow #28 2 years ago

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It's not a total loss: this probably paid the salaries of a whole load of overpaid managers for a couple of years.
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LPXO #29 2 years ago

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It looked like utter utter shite.
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Gosammy #30 2 years ago

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quite a good idea i thought - poor execution and at that cost, blimey!
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Mosphaiti #31 2 years ago

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lol, no freakin way did this cost 43million , they most have lost about 42million at the roulette tables in vegas doing research

Edited by Mosphaiti at 25/08/10 @ 19:13
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MerricK #32 2 years ago

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wow! they've cancelled this!!! shit ... looks like the n64 could have come back with that game ... seriously how crap does it look? Whats with the shiny lego hair?
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metalangel #33 2 years ago

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@Markitron: go onto Google Streetview southbound on LV Blvd near the Wynn. The billboard truck for the hookers is there, Google have censored the picture of the skank on the side.
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