1 | * BannedInChina: The game was banned in Germany, though it could be imported. |
2 | * CreatorDrivenSuccessor: For Radical Entertainment's own ''VideoGame/TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction'', from which it retained a lot of mechanics and further refined the formula. |
3 | * DuelingGames: This and ''VideoGame/{{inFamous}}'', which also features a man with superpowers in a New York-like city with LeParkour, and which came out a few weeks earlier. Do not [[FandomRivalry mention one on a forum for the other]]. |
4 | * HeAlsoDid: Dennis Detwiller, the head writer for the game (but not the comics or sequel), also wrote material for ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen''; in some regards it almost feels like a PerspectiveFlip of the ''Delta Green'' series; the shady governmental body operating above the law are the antagonists and the horrific abomination is the protagonist. Mercer himself shares some similarities with the Ghouls in Delta Green; from the shapeshifting and relative invulnerability to firearms, to gaining memories from consuming the brains of people. |
5 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
6 | ** The original ''[[=PROTOTYPE=]]'' was originally planned to be a sequel to ''VideoGame/SpiderManWebOfShadows'' where the player would control ComicBook/{{Venom}} as he slaughtered and ate his way to a symbiote-infested Spider-Man. |
7 | ** There was going to be co-op play, but it was dropped. |
8 | ** Early in the game's development, the official website had some story details that were later removed. For instance, Alex's mother would have been a central character as the CEO of [=GenTek=]. Another (heavily censored) document talks about the great influenza epidemic that broke in 1918 in the U.S.; it is hinted that influenza was just a cover story, and the outbreak was something else entirely, possibly a natural outbreak of the original Redlight virus. None of this is mentioned in either game. |
9 | ** During the game's beta, the main character's name was going to be Alex Trolliver; he rocked a white hoodie and grey vest, and his Claws power only had three fingers and no protruding spikes. |
10 | ** Various pieces of concept art show that Alex's armored form could've had Xenomorph tail-like tentacles for "hair". Concept art for possible abilities that never made it into the game shows him turning one hand into a group of mouth-tipped tentacles. Another scrapped ability was for Alex to form a spike-shooting BackpackCannon with up to three "turrets". |
11 | ** Mercer's original stealth ability would have simply been turning invisible before they went with the shapeshifting method. He also had a defensive ability that would have reflected a portion of taken damage back at the attacker. |
12 | ** There is radio chatter (mostly unused) in the game for a few more human enemies like S.W.A.T. teams, jets (the chatter suggests they would have sprayed Bloodtox) and MLRS trucks. In the end product jets only appear to make a couple scripted runs on the final boss, and the MLRS model was modified into the Bloodtox pump. |
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