First, and last, look at Red Faction: B.E.A.S.T.

by JC Fletcher { Jan 16th 2009 at 5:17PM }

Looking for another new "core" third-person shooter for the Wii? We suggest you look in an alternate universe where Locomotive Games was not shut down. The developer was working on a new entry in THQ's Red Faction series, called Red Faction: B.E.A.S.T., for the Wii. Their last project prior to this was the Wii version of Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed.

It seems that after the cancellation and the studio closure, somebody released a bunch of character renders and video footage of the unannounced game and sent it to Unseen64. The video is a bit, uh, YouTube-quality, but it clearly shows some pretty nice lighting effects as well as the destructible environments that are Red Faction's trademark.

Gallery: Red Faction: B.E.A.S.T.

Tags: cancelled, locomotive, prototype, red-faction, red-faction-beast, shooter, thq

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

8-bit.artist @ Jan 16th 2009 5:29PM

first time splitters 4 (if that was even being developed for wii) gets shut down and now this. what a bummer. wonder what other FPS' for the wii wont ever come out.

@tomic @ Jan 16th 2009 6:02PM

Well, at least there's a chance that Free Radical could be bought out and we'll still get a new Timesplitters.

Keep you fingers crossed.

psyborg @ Jan 16th 2009 5:50PM

Looks a bit rough now but a polished final version could have been like the Wii's very own Gears of War. very unfortunate.

Think theres any use in us throwing some emails at THQ and trying to get this brought back from the dead?

ChromeAlchemist @ Jan 16th 2009 8:07PM

Friend, just say the word and I'm there. We would need to get a LOT of people though, seriously I am up for this idea.

psyborg @ Jan 16th 2009 9:01PM

Email sent.

http://www.thq.com/contact/

CJLopez @ Jan 17th 2009 1:04PM

Already sended em a mail, asking for either continue development on the project, or pass the project to High Voltage Software, i mean, if they could implement their Quantum 3 engine on this game, wow, Gears of War would look like its a game that the X-Box and the GameCube could had been handled quite well

Anthony @ Jan 19th 2009 6:24AM

I was thinking the same - it could have evolved into a Gears of War (Wii). I usually get my FPS kicks on my PC, but I am still waiting for another game that was as awesome to control and as polished as RE4:Wii.

Capcom will surely release it in a year or two - they just don't want to admit that RE:5 is more of the same old -same old game play just with HD graphics. I don't see anything from the demo's of RE:5 that is beyond the Wii.

C'mon Conduit... do us proud :-D

ZombiePikmin @ Jan 16th 2009 7:44PM

Fuck you economy. Killing so many good games.

bug frawg @ Jan 17th 2009 3:30PM

Oh noes the economy is a serial killer.

ChromeAlchemist @ Jan 16th 2009 8:05PM

Gears Of Wii? and now it isn't coming?

Well f*ck me someone is going to have to burn for this...

I hope to god someone picks that game up (if they can)

ChromeAlchemist @ Jan 16th 2009 8:18PM

Also like the F-Zero music in the background ;¬D

Bowser Rogozhin @ Jan 17th 2009 6:08AM

This is terrible news. Not that I'm a fan of this genre, but the one FPS I could tolerate last generation was Red Faction 2. Blowing up the entire (well not entire) environment was something extraordinary, especially 5-6 years ago. There had been nothing like it before.

Seeing the lack of comments on this story, especially, when compared to the amount every Conduit post receives, is very disheartening. On one side you have Red Faction, a game which has always aimed to give off that Die-Hard-Blow-Up-Everything, pushing level design to heights almost unimaginable; on the other we have Conduit, which appears to be settled on 1994 Wolfenstien-style corridors.

You people have been dining on swill for so long you think it's caviar.