B.C. was an action-adventure video game developed by Intrepid Computer Entertainment, a satellite of Lionhead Studios, and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox. At the moment, the game was cancelled in 2004, fans believing that it was too ambitious to be made; indeed, even while the game was still in production, Molyneux said that he was unsure when he could release it due to “the ambitious nature of the gameplay and the high standards the people developing it are pushing for”. According to one article, as of May 2002, “(the demo build) was roughly 50 percent complete”. Its cancellation was announced in late 2004 with Molyneux saying “The decision to suspend work on any games project is always a very difficult one, particularly when it is a title with the potential of BC.”
The game was going to take place during a prehistoric time period on a single continent which contained five levels. The player controls a tribe who has to evolve and migrate to become the best species in the game. Tribe members can be of different classes and each can level up different ways to evolve. The main enemies in the game are an ape-like creature called the “simians”; however, the world is also inhabited with many types of dinosaurs as well as other creatures, including the dodo.
Early images at E3 showed extreme clarity and self shading but early reviews called the artificial intelligence the most impressive game aspect. According to GameSpot.com’s information on BC, the game would have had a foodchain, like Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie, in which each part would have been subject to being eaten by something higher on the foodchain. In addition, the dinosaurs and other creatures would have been intelligent, interacting with each other, thus acting independently of the player. It would have been possible to affect the videogame world as a whole, leading some people to comment on the driving of certain species to extinction. Other activities would have included capturing and training certain animals to use against tribal enemies. Animals known to exist in the world would have been Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Pachycephalosaurus, Smilodon, Apatosaurus (or Brontosaurus as the game would have focused on anachronisms) dodos, ape-men, and others.
As part of the exaggeration, in addition to anachronisms in the dinosaur age, BC would have featured dinosaurs as being larger than they really were. In one preview, Molyneux was quoted as saying that the Rex seen in screenshots was a child, a third the size of its parent. the game was also planned to be very bloody. GameSpot quoted Molyneux as saying that the dinosaurs will spill “swimming pools full of blood” when killed.
B.C. is an action-adventure game where the user controls a tribe during the early evolution era. The main goal in B.C. is to raise the tribe to become a threat and over-power the other species. In order to accomplish this, the user must populate six levels with different people from the tribe. Two types of tribe members are hunters and a chemist. Once a level is populated enough, the user takes five of their best tribe members to the next level to try to populate that area. After populating three levels, the user comes in contact with apes that are on the same evolutionary stage as the tribe members. These apes, called “Simians”, do not like the tribe and attempt to kill them.
It's ironic that this game was cancelled because the developers didn't think they could fulfil the ambitions of the game since that seems to be more so the case with modern games given how disappointing Triple A games have become it might be plausible for a game like this to fulfil the ambitions it had as a modern game but with how terrible the gaming industry is it would be highly unlikely so basically there is no way this game could have been as good as promised at the time of it's announcement it wouldn't be possible due to hardware limitations and in modern times it would be too unlikely because of how untrustworthy modern game companies are
This would of been the ARK survivor evolved. That they fucked up now. But don't get me wrong, i love ARK. It's just that they fucked up with there TEK shit.
Ark survival evolved is gonna be the next best game if you really wanted to play this. In fact id be willing to say ark is better because this game does not look like it holds features of breeding and taming dinos. The crafting doesnt seem to be all that in BC as well, crafting in Ark is phenomenal.
Maybe it's for the better that it got canned – we would have so much more adults right now convinced that our ancestors lived in the same era as dinosaurs. American bigots are already doing so much to spread nonsense like that – maybe it's better to keep it off videogames that look somehow realistic and educational. Either go full sci-fi/surreal/abstract or make your shit historically accurate.
OMG why wasn't this game made man it wouldn't been one of the best games ever it would of probably been the game to keep xbox alive someone make this happen I beg of you
![B.C. [XBOX Dinosaurs Game - beta - UNRELEASED!]](https://cryptocasinowins.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BC-XBOX-Dinosaurs-Game-beta-UNRELEASED-150x150.jpg "B.C. [XBOX Dinosaurs Game - beta - UNRELEASED!]")
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It's ironic that this game was cancelled because the developers didn't think they could fulfil the ambitions of the game since that seems to be more so the case with modern games given how disappointing Triple A games have become it might be plausible for a game like this to fulfil the ambitions it had as a modern game but with how terrible the gaming industry is it would be highly unlikely so basically there is no way this game could have been as good as promised at the time of it's announcement it wouldn't be possible due to hardware limitations and in modern times it would be too unlikely because of how untrustworthy modern game companies are
I was looking forward to this game. Now that I see it this many years later it reminds me of Valheim a bit
This was The Stomping Land before The Stomping Land, & irony it shared the fate of The Stomping Land…
Extinction
I was quite disappointed when this was cancelled back in the day, it looked promising
This is a concept that needs to be revisited in a modern game
Begged my parents for an xbox just for this game, a huge part of my childhood was determined by an unreleased game
i hate the creators
What could have been a great game… Dame you peter Mal
Maybe this game needs an Xbox Series X treatment.
This game rules I have the only copy
Make gmod models of the animals
I WAAAAAAANT IT
I remember reading about this in a magazine a looooooong time ago. Said magazine said it would likely be "the goriest game ever"…
WHY!? I WAS SO HYPED FOR THIS 🙁
This and Fable taught me never get too excited about a game in development.
This would've been a masterpiece had it not been cancelled.
This game looks fucking cool, i remember reading about it in OXM back in 2003
far cry primal
This would of been the ARK survivor evolved. That they fucked up now. But don't get me wrong, i love ARK. It's just that they fucked up with there TEK shit.
I wanted this soo bad too. Soo much potential.
e realmente uma pena esse
jogo ter sido cancelado
e realmente uma pena esse jogo ter sido cancelado
Please finish this game!
Wow, this looks really good for it's time, like really good. Why the hell was it cancelled?
would of enjoyed ark more if it stuck with the prehistoric environment without all the advanced technology, wish a game like B.C.existed =/
This game would've been awesome. Well, at least we've got Horizon Zero Dawn coming out in February.
Ark survival evolved is gonna be the next best game if you really wanted to play this. In fact id be willing to say ark is better because this game does not look like it holds features of breeding and taming dinos. The crafting doesnt seem to be all that in BC as well, crafting in Ark is phenomenal.
Maybe it's for the better that it got canned – we would have so much more adults right now convinced that our ancestors lived in the same era as dinosaurs. American bigots are already doing so much to spread nonsense like that – maybe it's better to keep it off videogames that look somehow realistic and educational. Either go full sci-fi/surreal/abstract or make your shit historically accurate.
OMG why wasn't this game made man it wouldn't been one of the best games ever it would of probably been the game to keep xbox alive someone make this happen I beg of you