{"id":118269,"date":"2013-04-09T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T14:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/?p=118269"},"modified":"2013-04-13T20:36:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T00:36:50","slug":"canned-mega-man-fps-by-armature-studio-revealed-as-maverick-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/canned-mega-man-fps-by-armature-studio-revealed-as-maverick-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Canned Mega Man FPS by Armature Studio revealed as &#8220;Maverick Hunter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-eb0893a5d9635152f37eed7cee440f6c-1\">\n\n    \t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/maverick-hunter\/maverick_hunter_bomb.jpg\"\n               title=\"\"\n               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But it did work on one huge project that eventually made its way to the trash bin: Maverick Hunter.<\/p>\n<p>This first-person shooter was a new take on the Mega Man X series. Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune even signed off on the game, but right around the time when he left Capcom, Armature&#8217;s work on Maverick Hunter was scrapped.<\/p>\n<p>Tons of details have now emerged on the cancelled Mega Man project through a new Polygon report. For a full summary, read on below. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><center><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=d0MTV0YTrXZsXpvENJRLxaa2L0HC6Yqc&#038;pbid=2ff6d6fff2b2457bb9ea2cfcf77dc25b\"><\/script><\/centeR><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Would have built upon the mythology of Mega Man X<br \/>\n&#8211; Stayed true to Mega Man X gameplay concepts<br \/>\n&#8211; X-Buster arm canon reimagined<br \/>\n&#8211; Mega Man&#8217;s dash and his ability to appropriate the special powers of his fallen enemies also rethought, same with platforming elements such as X&#8217;s wall jump and classic characters<br \/>\n&#8211; Prototyped and fully playable according to Capcom sources<br \/>\n&#8211; Only around six months of work in the first half of 2010<br \/>\n&#8211; Game was deemed a big gamble and was quietly killed before Inafune publicly exited Capcom in late 2010<br \/>\n&#8211; Armature&#8217;s take on the X fiction would &#8220;be like taking an 8-bit game that doesn&#8217;t have a very deep story to it, and then building around it and keeping some of the key pieces intact&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=IyMjV0YTqXcJD0C65moLaEgRhQ51WlM-&#038;pbid=2ff6d6fff2b2457bb9ea2cfcf77dc25b\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Those pieces included X and Zero<br \/>\n&#8211; New human sidekick for Mega Man, a Bruce Willis-like police officer<br \/>\n&#8211; The man versus machine contrast between the two was meant to be an overarching theme of the game, with Mega Man&#8217;s personality sometimes making him seem more human than his sidekick<br \/>\n&#8211; Capcom Japan developed the basic plot off key story points and twists from Inafune, but ultimately the plot would be in the hands of a Western scenario writer<br \/>\n&#8211; Trilogy of Maverick Hunter games had been planned<br \/>\n&#8211; Third game would let players control Zero, forced to destroy a Mega Man who had grown incredibly powerful and infinitely intelligent over the course of two games<br \/>\n&#8211; Game would have been overseen by Bionic Commando and Bionic Commando: Rearmed producer Ben Judd<br \/>\n&#8211; Didn&#8217;t progress much beyond a playable proof of concept<\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=wzNTV0YTpGe-3ljOgfp9xDxw8KGw1v1e&#038;pbid=2ff6d6fff2b2457bb9ea2cfcf77dc25b\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;The playable was a proof of concept build rather than something intended as the real game or even a vertical slice. This is sometimes done to explore a new concept for games before they are approved for full production. You see some of the core ideas in action, and extrapolate based on that to what it could become.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Had strong internal support but was scrapped in greenlight meetings<br \/>\n&#8211; In the prototype, Mega Man&#8217;s more realistic, humanoid character design grips a menacing gun that forms around his hand but he still mixes rapid fire attacks with more powerful shots.<br \/>\n&#8211;  Mega Man&#8217;s armor transforms to create the gun, instead of morphing his entire arm into a cannon<br \/>\n&#8211; Mega Man dashes forward along corridors and in the air, evoking one of Mega Man X&#8217;s signature moves<br \/>\n&#8211; Also throws a grenade that resembles the Gravity Well from X3<br \/>\n&#8211; Armor designed by Adi Granov (sharply rendered comic book covers and work on bringing Iron Man&#8217;s iconic red and gold suit to Marvel&#8217;s film franchise)<\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=VuMTV0YTq-XBImTDvMVr9TaxHMnv4Y19&#038;pbid=2ff6d6fff2b2457bb9ea2cfcf77dc25b\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Maverick Hunter&#8217;s approach to weapons and attacks were more grounded in realism<br \/>\n&#8211; Mega Man&#8217;s gunfire rocks with the metallic sound of a machine gun, and his more powerful shots are missiles, not charged up energy blasts from the classic X-Buster<br \/>\n&#8211; Mega Man can charge into enemies, kicking the camera out to a third-person view as he demolishes them with a close quarters melee attack or energy burst<br \/>\n&#8211; Defeating bosses and swapping out weapons on the fly would be kept intact<br \/>\n&#8211; Could absorb the weaponized abilities of foes after defeating rival robots<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Comboing weapons together&#8221; would have been part of Maverick Hunter&#8217;s combat system, as would disposable weapons \u2014 bombs, sentry guns and tank turrets \u2014 that could be snatched from some enemies and used only a handful of times<br \/>\n&#8211; Enemies would be weak against certain weapons<br \/>\n&#8211; Branching paths<br \/>\n&#8211; The design of the original Mega Man X, with its upgrades and sub-tanks secreted away in various corners, influenced Maverick Hunter&#8217;s<br \/>\n&#8211; Branching pathways and context-sensitive areas that could be discovered by players would have offered variety to the game&#8217;s level-based design<\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=2ff6d6fff2b2457bb9ea2cfcf77dc25b&#038;ec=41NzV0YTowTg3enF0F4-N_H6855MGwgQ\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2013\/4\/9\/4179628\/mega-man-fps-maverick-hunter\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armature Studio, the company founded by key Metroid Prime developers, hasn&#8217;t produced many games since its inception in 2008. 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