The PlayStation 3 Assassin Game That Was Cancelled In Favour Of Heavenly Sword

Sony Computer Entertainment Cambridge have yet another cancelled game in the closet that looks interesting in concept—a Kill Bill-style assassin game starring a female lead who would focus on disguises. The game was tentatively titled Zodiac Assassin, and would be set in locales such as Mexico, Turkey and Japan.

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Various costume design concepts for the game’s lead character.

 

A painting of a crowd scene in Mexico during the “Day of the Dead” festival.

 

A drawing of a crowd scene that would have served as part of graphical demo.

 

An illustration of a fish market scene set in Tokyo.

 

Villains concepts. Each country/locale would have had its own signature boss.

 

A combination of painting + geometry used as art direction for a lighting test.

 

Zodiac Assassin was being conceptualized for the PlayStation 3 in 2005. The game was cancelled as Sony decided to invest instead in Ninja Theory’s Heavenly Sword.

 

SCE Cambridge worked on other concepts that didn’t make it to production, too: an alien monkey game (no, seriously) that led to the conception of Eyepet and a survival horror game titled Manhattan.


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