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New footage from a cancelled game based on The Flash showed up online, giving fans of the beloved DC Comics hero a chance to see what might’ve been if development continued.
This additional information and footage from the game comes thanks to Unseen 64, which quickly shared it online. The game was being created by developer BottleRocket Entertainment, and was set to release in 2009 on both Xbox 360 and PS3. Unfortunately, the title would never see the light of day, regardless of the early promise that the game showed.
From what could be seen of it, The Flash certainly showed a good level of quality, delivering an open world game where the player could zip around Central City and Keystone City and fight enemies such as Captain Cold. In the meantime, the game’s art style had a unique quality of its own, it looks like it’s inspired by The Incredibles and Mirror’s Edge, and apparently BottleRocket even wanted Ryan Reynolds to voice the lead character. Those who want to know more about the game’s development, and cancellation, can do so in the video below.
Unfortunately, the publisher Brash Entertainment was not able to release the game due to its financial collapse in 2008. The closure of Brash Entertainment was the reason for the project’s cancellation in 2008, as well as another DC Comics project based on Superman. Also, this collapse would eventually lead to the end of BottleRocket Entertainment, too, which officially closed its doors in 2009.
This was not the only comic adaptation that BottleRocket had been working on, either. The developer devoted a lot of its time in pre-production for a Watchmen-based game, the seminal work by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, but delays in getting the contract to work on the game led to it being shelved and started working on The Flash instead. It’s a sad story for comic book fans, with neither title ever seeing release, and fans of Watchmen receiving the sub-par Watchmen: The End is Nigh instead.
Fortunately, the overall state of comic book games seems to have improved since 2009, although it may not seem that way after the rumored cancellation of a Suicide Squad video game. Nevertheless, plenty of DC Comics characters have made their way into video games in some point, partly thanks to the well-received Injustice: Gods Among Us. With the release of Injustice 2 set for next year, fans of The Flash will be able to see Barry Allen in action once more – and with luck, perhaps characters from Watchmen will join him.
