A New Streets of Rage Was Going To Be A Thing

It's quite possible that we might have had a new 3D version of Streets of Rage, and Ruffian Games -developers of Crackdown 2- were going to be the ones to do it.

Both Gaz Liddon, studio head of Ruffian and Sean Noonan, a former Ruffian employee, have already come forward to confirm the projects historical existence with the former posting a video of the game (shown below). The gameplay shown is pre-alpha prototype footage but still shows the direction the game was heading it. Modernized, yet still really channeling that old-school feel.

"Here are some scenes from a playable prototype. It was something we built very rapidly and represents pre-pre-pre-pre (lots of pres) pre-Alpha quality. Even so it has a certain charm :). Gaz Liddon wrote. "What's the story behind it all? Like a lot of developers we work on a lot of different prototypes, they're just not usually shown in public. In this case an older version of the same video was leaked last week which came as a bit of a surprise if I'm honest. As it had no sound I thought there wouldn't be any harm sharing a version with audio."

As a downloadable co-op game, I would have been all over this if it was ever to come to fruition, but unfortunately the project is dead for now.