Fear & Respect goes up in smoke
Game fronted by Snoop Dogg and John Singleton canceled; Midway still plans to work with the pair of stars.
LOS ANGELES--With the recent abundance of urban-themed games flooding retail shelves, it made sense that a publisher would collaborate with two of the entertainment industry's best inner-city yarn spinners. In 2004, Midway Games announced that it had struck a deal with rapper and one-time Dr. Dre protégé Snoop Dogg and Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton.
They agreed to meld minds for Fear & Respect, a gritty tale about youths in South Central, which would be overseen by Singleton and feature the voice and likeness of Snoop. Development on the game was bumpier than a ride in an Impala with hydraulics, as the shooter's status bobbed and weaved, at one time being slated for current-gen consoles and later scheduled exclusively for next-generation systems.
It turns out the game won't be any generation now. Speaking with GameSpot News, Midway CEO David Zucker said, "Fear & Respect is on the back burner. We are still working with Snoop and John Singleton to do a game, but the actual game Fear & Respect is canceled."
The reason for the cancellation isn't clear, but it may be part of Midway's new plan in dealing with crowded genres. "I think we're at a juncture in the video game business. Everyone's talking about it. How many times are you going to give me the 16th iteration of...I'm not even going to talk about the other products," Zucker explained. "The 20th iteration of a driving game isn't going to keep the industry growing."
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thats dumb let snoop come out with his game
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I was looking foward to this game to come out
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damn i was looking forward for that game to cum out
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they can still improve it tho....they can turn it to a "Boyz N Tha Hood" game wit all dem mans up in there doin theyre own thang....lol.
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sounds like san andreas
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well there has been a lot of these.
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Oh well....not the first game ever cancelled.
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man, i was lookin forward to this game
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MAN!!!!!!!!!! I was lookin forward 2 tat game
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ohh well, wouldve been kool to play as snoop dee ohh double g as a main character.
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ill wait for saints row anyway
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aw man my boi snoop d o double g got played
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hey hey hey, some good news
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Yeah, if it was going to be anything close to "bulletproof" or 25 to life, then we are fortunate. Looked like a GTA rip off anyway. This does come as bad news to Sony's fanboys, making the weak game line up for the PS3 even weaker. Then again, Sony didnt lose much by this one being dumped.
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Ha ha, this is the best news I've heard in a while. No one respects Snoop anymore, myself included. I guess that's what he deserves for trying to be an uppity retard by starting his own celebrity-only gaming league. I remember GI doing a cover story on it almost 2 years ago, and now it's bitten the dust, I laugh at Snoop's pain.
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interesting.
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Snoop's my favorite, but I too hate urban themed games...
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"The 20th iteration of a driving game isn't going to keep the industry growing."
I was going to say something about how these games always suck but that quote gets straight to the point.
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This is a glimmer of hope in the big, dark, nasty crap ridden toilet that is sometimes called the video game industry. I hope this is the start of the downfall of urban themed games. But hey, it is capitalism baby! If gamers are STOOOOOPID enough to buy crap like 25 to Life or 50 Cent: Bulletproof, then why not sell it to those millions of 'tards?
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Who cares we have seen allot of crappy urban games trying to stand up to GTA SanAndreas.
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*shrug* not surprising. the hip-hop/street fad in gaming is losing a lot of appeal. it only seems natural that they'd cancel it if it wasn't that good... and it never looked that good.
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Thank god am tired of sterotype games that have african american males in it. Why does a game wit a black man in it have to be about the streets
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Thank god am tired of sterotype games that have african american males in it. Why does a game wit a black man in it have to be about the streets
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It was crap anyways.
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Theres to many games like that so It won't be missed
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Awww, poor Snoop. At least he has his "gaming league" to fall back on....
(yes, this is sarcasm)
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Thank you for cancelling this. Enough is enough.
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Well, at least somebody is realizing the over-saturation of certain genres. *cough* shooters *cough*
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Thank the lord, Midway finally saw that this was going to horrible if it was going to go any farther.
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Midway did a Good thing not making games of the same type again(as many are there in the market of ths Type) hope they come up wwith something New and nice
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like they said it "it may be part of Midway's new plan in dealing with crowded genres"
how ever i' am sorry for that.
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not my type of game really
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I really wanted this game!!!
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Booooooo!!!
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thank god. oh thank you god. and thank you Snoop's Gaming League of Godly Celebrity for excluding the little guy.
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Good, we dont more washed up GTA clones.
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Good move
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Just crap anyways.
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HAHAHHAHA Yes!!!! there is justice in the world. I am so sick of the open ended urban-thug simulator games. This one looked like a total stinker in the first place. Good riddance. No if the 50 cent game sequel gets canned the world will be a somewhat better place.
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Any game with a "gangsta" rapper in it will no doubt fail.____Well apparently, Def Jam Vendatta and Fight for NY did fail. They were done good.
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After seeing how LA Rush bombed Midway would think twice before making a games full of rappers.
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there are too many games like that already, a cancellation may be a good thing
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Thank god...the fad of releasing GTA wannabes is finally coming to a close, JUST maybe...
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This coming from the company that keeps putting out Mortal Kombat and Rush games every year. Despite brief lulls in releases, there have been way too many games in these genres, too.
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Proof that God exists, and that he loves us!
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Thank god someone had the brains to realize the obvious insted of just putting out something to make money. Besides snoop sucks and now he can spend his time with his flip flop gaming league or whatever.
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Looked stupid to me.
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I didn't even know about this game O_o Oh well...From the looks of it, it was going to flop like a fish out of water
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That game didn't look that apealing any way. It was up in smoke when it was first anounced.
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This may be a wise decision as the genre this game falls in is getting overcrowded. Midway is not in the best of financial shape and they probably believed they'd lose money with this game in its current form. 8 to 5, however, that some aspects of this game will appear in whatever Snoop Dogg and Singleton get Midway to push out.
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