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E3 06: Frame City Killer canceled

  • By Dan Tochen, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
  • Posted May 12, 2006 8:43 am PT

Namco Bandai's Unreal Engine 3 action game canned, company confirms Xbox 360 role-playing game in works.

LOS ANGELES--A number of big-name games are suspiciously absent from this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, but the absence of one of them, Namco Bandai's Frame City Killer, has been explained today.

A message from the publisher on the Japanese Namco Channel site confirms that after a series of delays, development on the game has been discontinued.

"We are sorry to say that we have decided that Frame City--the Xbox 360 game which our company had planned for a spring 2006 release--will not be released," the company said. "Our apologies to everyone who was looking forward to the game's release."

Despite the setback, Namco Bandai will continue to support Microsoft's new system. It's showing Mobile Ops: The One Year War for the Xbox 360 at its E3 booth this year, and the Frame City Killer announcement indicates further development is under way.

"Our company will continue to develop high quality software for the Xbox 360 next-gen console, from a new RPG to others," Namco Bandai said. "We ask for your understanding. We'll announce new titles and their release dates separately."

140 Comments

  • GeigerdolylWodd

    Posted Nov 1, 2009 8:13 pm GMT

    @Tr3vz

    Um Duke Nukem Forever? aka Did Not Finish!?

  • Jigsaw9798

    Posted Aug 25, 2008 7:52 pm GMT

    I'm mourning the loss of this gsme even to this day.

  • Tr3vz

    Posted Jan 6, 2008 6:49 pm GMT

    what a load. who releases multiple videos and screenshots then decides to not release???

  • InvaderGrim

    Posted Jun 13, 2007 6:05 pm GMT

    over a year now, and I still look back and wish Namco would have finished this game!!!!

  • tremlesshalo

    Posted Feb 6, 2007 4:23 pm GMT

    So there never going to make it again?

  • alpha121tpg

    Posted Dec 6, 2006 7:26 am GMT

    hmmmm why is this game for sale here then...http://www.gameznflix.com/default.aspx?content=detail&id=713631..under new release?

  • pakishujaat17

    Posted Nov 11, 2006 8:43 pm GMT

    that sucks...now u can keep it

  • lumeiwan

    Posted Nov 10, 2006 6:57 pm GMT

    WTF!!! And i thought it was released

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Aug 26, 2006 9:40 pm GMT

    Noooooo....

  • Japanese_Jade

    Posted Jul 22, 2006 7:21 pm GMT

    Damn I'm late. lol, now I find out its canceled.

  • kinghotdog18

    Posted Jul 18, 2006 10:28 pm GMT

    wtf this game was gona be awsome its why i was going to get a 360

  • eltururu

    Posted Jun 26, 2006 10:24 am GMT

    This really blows! i bought my 360 because of this game!!!!!

  • ChromeGrill212

    Posted Jun 13, 2006 8:12 pm GMT

    That game would have been so tight...

  • abstractreality

    Posted Jun 5, 2006 9:49 pm GMT

    noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
    i think that sums it up

  • NvMrP

    Posted Jun 3, 2006 4:48 am GMT

    This was one of the 5 or so games that was going to make me buy a 360. DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!

  • Tha_King_Of_Ny

    Posted May 23, 2006 12:19 pm GMT

    this sucks i was lucking forward to tha game

  • aaronball

    Posted May 19, 2006 4:02 pm GMT

    Maybe they couldn't get the unreal engine to work on the 360, and I say that because it won't work on widows xp with a GF 6600.

  • TehPwnzter

    Posted May 17, 2006 12:08 pm GMT

    OMG!, I was waiting for this game ever since launch ( as its original date as far back as I can remember was November 15th) Then I got delayed until August I was pissed but got over it but now cancelled this game was gonna be like GTA future

  • helldemon47

    Posted May 16, 2006 10:16 pm GMT

    They show impressive footage, make a bunch of trailers, get us all excited about the game....and cancel it!!!! This is just like that Dead Rising delay.

  • Morias-Skult

    Posted May 16, 2006 2:58 am GMT

    That was looking to be a pretty good game all apart from the inside visuals everything else looked amazing

  • suamil

    Posted May 15, 2006 11:22 pm GMT

    I was really lookin 4ward 2 frame city plus i already had it paid off. And o yeah by the way im a gamestop mgr and on my conf. call 2 day have confirmed the we will not b taking ps3 orders until October

  • townsenda1

    Posted May 15, 2006 10:18 pm GMT

    That sucks. I hope Mirosoft has something else up there sleeves. If not gamers will be pissed at this one.

  • DevJin

    Posted May 15, 2006 9:56 pm GMT

    they should only release their games at PS3 if they want to sell BIG.

  • cypher50

    Posted May 15, 2006 8:38 pm GMT

    I was going to be upset...then I saw Mass Effect and totally forgot about this game even being announced.

  • Xtrem3ist

    Posted May 15, 2006 7:39 pm GMT

    Dammit! It was on my gamefly queue too, was really looking forward to this game...

  • terdoo

    Posted May 15, 2006 1:44 pm GMT

    That sucks,I hope re5 insnt a folower

  • sidious

    Posted May 15, 2006 1:36 pm GMT

    Man, I was wanting that game... even had it pre ordered... but if it was crap, I am glad they canned it instead of pushing a bad product off on us... I wonder what the RPG will be???

  • sasuke55

    Posted May 15, 2006 9:10 am GMT

    Don't really care. Would have been nice to have something else to play this srping though

  • Gaara79

    Posted May 15, 2006 8:03 am GMT

    To bad, I was looking forward to it, but I'm glad they decide d to cancle it instead of bringing out a mediocer game..

  • Icekxg

    Posted May 15, 2006 7:50 am GMT

    This game looked stupid anyway. I'd rather see them put more resources into making Mobile Ops a good game...but that will probably suck like all the other gundam games that have ever come out.

  • Manatassi

    Posted May 15, 2006 12:40 am GMT

    Hmmm they probably canceled it because t wasnt turning out to be any good anyway, so its no big loss.

  • Genji3

    Posted May 14, 2006 11:50 pm GMT

    I wanted to see how it would turn out to be but to bad i guess.

  • bebebebebebe123

    Posted May 14, 2006 10:27 pm GMT

    The CG is pretty good and the idea too...
    But I just don't know why they always put some non-sense Chinese words on the neon sign...Kind of demeaning...

  • Kfoss

    Posted May 14, 2006 8:47 pm GMT

    meh...X360 dose have Gears Of War!!!! though!!

  • grassgreener12

    Posted May 14, 2006 4:26 pm GMT

    who gives a crap!? frame city killer looked bad and looked really clunky with the animations. W/GoW and mass effect coming out, who really cares!

  • neoand12

    Posted May 14, 2006 12:24 pm GMT

    LOL hahahaha thats so sad, atleast we have Gears of war.

  • thatguytony

    Posted May 14, 2006 10:52 am GMT

    I was never that impressed by this game so I could careless. Considering what Microsoft has coming like Gears of War, Too Human, Mass Effect, Crackdown, etc, this one game going belly up dosen't make a difference.

  • miiiguel

    Posted May 14, 2006 7:58 am GMT

    Better to not release it, than release a crap game - it would damage the image of Namco Bandai and X360's one as well.

  • drangel_jam

    Posted May 14, 2006 1:24 am GMT

    I'm crying... but I trust Namco. If they dicided so, they have a pretty good reason. Serve us, gamers, well, and we will keep embracing your work.

    I hope another publisher picks it up, like Take 2 did with [initially] Capcom's Red Revolver.

  • beothees

    Posted May 13, 2006 9:16 pm GMT

    Strange they would cancel a product so close to being finished.
    It must have been HORRIBLE!

  • hawkeye9999

    Posted May 13, 2006 8:56 pm GMT

    Dam I was looking forward to this game. This is pretty disapointing.

  • Sesshomaru90200

    Posted May 13, 2006 8:29 pm GMT

    wow, one of the 2 games i was actually looking foward too...

  • 2White

    Posted May 13, 2006 4:51 pm GMT

    I don't see why people are disappointed, the graphics looked horrible...

  • tr00pa_26

    Posted May 13, 2006 4:47 pm GMT

    d'oh!

  • T00HuMaN

    Posted May 13, 2006 3:03 pm GMT

    yep not a big deal and like some1 said before me Quality not quanity

  • JumpingMirrior

    Posted May 13, 2006 1:43 pm GMT

    Good. It didnt look to good ( from a gameplay stand point)

  • Sydwynder

    Posted May 13, 2006 12:42 pm GMT

    Color me as who cares? Seriously this game looked so unoriginal it should have never been green lit in the first place. Bring on HALO 3, Huxley, Too Human, Gears of War, BIA Hells Highway, FEAR. Oh yeah I'm really gonna miss........what was that crappy game called again?

  • jer_1

    Posted May 13, 2006 11:25 am GMT

    Frame City looked atrocious, I'm quite happy they canned that one. They probably realized what a crapper of a game they were developing, then moved on to something decent.

  • XAF1

    Posted May 13, 2006 10:13 am GMT

    It was expected. We have one Namco-Bandi game right now and it looks like it was done on the Dreamcast which isn't bad for Ridge Racer or the Dreamcast but this is the Xbox 360. If they are making a RPG it had better look next-gen. I can guarantee that some part of Frame City Killer pops up on the PS3 maybe with a name change and graphical changes down the road. You know I'm starting to get that feeling I got with the original Xbox---which I didn't really mind back then. But it's starting to seem like another one of those situations of some Japanese developers not taking Xbox 360 gamers serious enough. Come on stop tossing us scraps and give us some quality games. Tecmo is giving us some great games, Q Entertainment, Phantagram are giving us some great games aswell as a few other Japanese developers. Sega has once more slapped Xbox gamers in the face by basically saying that Virtua Fighter ---one of it's greatest franchise is too good for the 360 and giving it a PS3 exclusive as it did with the PS2 and Xbox. Capcom is doing the same by giving us games that they aren't sure would do well on the PS3 and a few things like Resident Evil---what about Onimusha, Devil May Cry or something at least a little similar that would be appreciated more. And Square is a nonmentionable---FFXI what a joke. Square has so many great franchises that FFXI should have never been introduced as a suggestion if they wanted to test the 360 waters. They could have done better. If they want most gamers's money then they have to learn to dance for the 360 just as they do for the PS3. Quality over Quantity.

  • thekey

    Posted May 13, 2006 5:42 am GMT

    What ever, watch it show up on the PS3.

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