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Æon Flux

Æon Flux is a canceled game based on the 1991 American animated television series of the same name. It was announced on April 9, 1996 for the PlayStation and PC. A game based on the episode "Demiurge" was developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Viacom New Media. It first appeared at E3 that same year, and the ad was even included in the 1996 VHS release of the animated series.

While working on the game, Viacom New Media will team up with Virgin Interactive. The merger would eventually see Viacom's games in development canceled and leave Cryo Interactive with no rights to use the Aeon Flux property. However, the game's resources were not lost, but were reworked into the 1997 Pax Corpus game. Pax Corpus retained many obvious similarities to the canceled game. For example, some parts of the second mission in Pax Corpus called "Prison" resemble in their appearance the level from the canceled game.

In February 2019, the project build dated November 18, 1996 was leaked.

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Catroots is a canceled game of an unknown genre that was developed for the Nintendo 64. There is very little information about this game. An animated teaser for the project was shown at E3 2000. After the show, IGN decided to ask what kind of game it was, to which they received a rather vague answer from the American department of Nintendo "We were told to put it there."

IGN later conducted an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, in which he revealed that Marigul was developing the game. There are currently no gameplay videos. Judging by the short animation, we were supposed to play as characters reminiscent of Tom and Jerry and The Itchy and Scratchy Show. The rat is trying to destroy the cat by all available means, using a hammer, shurikens and a flamethrower for this.

The exact reasons for canceling the game are unknown. Perhaps the reason for the cancellation of the project is related to the release of the new Nintendo GameCube in 2001, for which the developers simply did not have time to rework the game.

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Spirit Under Control is a canceled futuristic sci-fi action-adventure game developed in the mid-2000s by Widescreen Games for PC, Playstation 2 and Xbox.

The game takes place in the distant future, on a planet called June. The main feature of this project was the use of an ability called "spirit", which would allow the player to control different characters (such as enemies) to solve different situations. It can be assumed that its gameplay could be very similar to Messiah released in 2000 exclusively on PC.

There is very little information about the game, four small pictures of the game were found on the already deceased Widescreen Games website.

Link to the archived version of the game page: http://web.archive.org/web/20070818221101/http://wsg.fr/games_us_liste_projets_spirit.htm

Interestingly, the site contains information that we could play the demo version of the game. Unfortunately, at the moment no videos with the gameplay of the game have been found on the network.

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Cold Blooded (or Shark Boy) is a canceled action adventure developed by 7th Level in 1996. Not much is known about the game. Its distinguishing features were the unique gameplay in each level, as well as a good visual style in the spirit of the comics of the time. The project wanted to be released on PC. The main character was voiced by actor Bruce Campbell, who played Ash in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror film trilogy.

Not as much information is known about the plot of the game as we would like. Animation World Magazine posted a brief description of the game, stating that Cold Blooded is set in a "half-distorted universe threatened by a tug-of-war between warring gods."

The reasons for the cancellation of the project are unknown.