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Fear & Respect goes up in smoke

By Tim Surette, GameSpotPosted Mar 1, 2006 4:06 pm PT

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."

73 Comments

  • Serchant2

    Posted Jul 21, 2009 8:32 am PT

    Too bad. It looked like it could have been a great game.

  • eabig

    Posted Jul 10, 2009 9:35 pm PT

    really think this game could've been big

  • atm0073

    Posted Feb 10, 2009 5:44 pm PT

    Shame. Could have been a good game, I think.

  • Jigsaw9798

    Posted Aug 25, 2008 7:55 pm PT

    @freshtodefkid You'll probably never read this but do you even realize what "cum out" means. Please say come out next time.

  • CLOWNKID

    Posted Dec 31, 2007 11:54 am PT

    thats dumb let snoop come out with his game

  • redskins21

    Posted Nov 16, 2007 6:41 pm PT

    I was looking foward to this game to come out

  • freshtodefkid

    Posted Jul 5, 2007 9:43 am PT

    damn i was looking forward for that game to cum out

  • tornadoshank

    Posted May 4, 2007 5:11 am PT

    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.

  • stfolife

    Posted Apr 24, 2007 6:35 pm PT

    sounds like san andreas

  • gunboyx

    Posted Jan 28, 2007 1:10 pm PT

    well there has been a lot of these.

  • Tomdogg

    Posted Dec 27, 2006 1:25 pm PT

    Oh well....not the first game ever cancelled.

  • taino1128

    Posted Dec 18, 2006 1:03 pm PT

    man, i was lookin forward to this game

  • YOU_GANGSTA

    Posted Nov 28, 2006 4:58 pm PT

    MAN!!!!!!!!!! I was lookin forward 2 tat game

  • LikwidX3

    Posted Oct 5, 2006 10:59 pm PT

    ohh well, wouldve been kool to play as snoop dee ohh double g as a main character.

  • dirtysouthtim69

    Posted Jun 2, 2006 2:15 am PT

    ill wait for saints row anyway

  • comthitnuong

    Posted May 30, 2006 4:01 pm PT

    aw man my boi snoop d o double g got played

  • sydneyviles

    Posted May 15, 2006 9:09 am PT

    hey hey hey, some good news

  • boolow407

    Posted Mar 5, 2006 9:41 am PT

    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.

  • Bloodzombie77

    Posted Mar 3, 2006 12:27 am PT

    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.

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Mar 2, 2006 5:06 pm PT

    interesting.

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