Eight Days, The Getaway 3, and Agent are three cancelled PS3 exclusives that still sting the heart of the PlayStation faithful to this day. With none seeing the light of day in the previous generation, it's the SCE London Studio-fronted title Eight Days that we actually saw the most of prior to its scrapping. Nostalgic fans will remember the gas station shootout and what promised to be a big-budget experience on Sony's last-gen system.
Over a decade later, Polygon has published an interview with five developers who were there at the time, and it certainly makes for interesting reading. Those who were there at the time cited various reasons for its demise, including contrasting statements of the studio either being too small or large to handle the project, while the PS3 is stated as being too difficult to work with.
It does sound like it was a rather ambitious project, however. Described as "putting the player in the greatest action movie that had ever been made", the likes of John Travolta and Halle Berry were approached for roles in the title while The Dark Knight stuntman Buster Reeves was set to play the main character.
We strongly recommend you head on over to Polygon for the full story. Were you excited for Eight Days? Let us know your thoughts on the interview in the comments below.
[source polygon.com]
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How does a company be too large to handle a product?
"John Travolta and Halle Berry"? They could have just pitched it as a Swordfish game.
Chances are, someone will read about it and try to bring it back to next generation consoles. Maybe, just maybe, some of these will arrive on the PS5 or next Microsoft machine (sorry, don't know what it's called yet). Would be nice to bring back the Getaway series...possibly a collection for the PS5 (which seems to be the thing to see if some titles still have an audience). Hopefully, but in the mean time, I'll take a new Twisted Metal by sony instead for the PS5.
I wanted all three of those. It's to bad Sony doesn't make games like that anymore. I've always said if Sony would put out a GTA type clone and a really good Sci-fi game like Dead Space they would completely own the market exclusive wise.
All 3 should be brought back to life and made for the PS5. It makes me so sad that we never got a 3rd Getaway.
@CB7Tuner91. I agree with you a game similar. Like sleeping dogs.gta.watch dogs 3.evil within .resident evil and dead spsce will be amazing for the ps5.word up son
Hahahaha, nothing says noughties like Halle Berry and John Travolta.
The Getaway 3 I'd take if they made it, especially since newer hardware would be very capable of handling it, whereas PS2 struggled a bit - particularly with the second game. But I'm not too disappointed that they haven't.
Agent... I can't really be disappointed about it since we never really had anything to go on anyway. It's bizarre that Rockstar kept renewing the trademark for all those years (it was abandoned last November) without producing anything. To be honest, I don't think it would have amounted to much; I think they've forgotten how to make a game that isn't GTA, and their formula has long since worn thin for me.
8 Days, however... that game I would really like to see revived. Even on PS3, the animation looked next level. It would be great to see it announced as a launch title for PS5 (I'm dreaming, I know), but at this point, I'd happily take it on PS4 as a "last great hurrah" for the system.
That Berry is still fine at a ripe age.
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