Foodfight!, an infamously horrible CG animated comedy starring product mascots, nearly acquired a tie-in PS2-era online game. And whereas the tie-in sport was by no means completed, largely as a result of the film lingered in growth hell, we now have entry to belongings from the Foodfight! sport and have a extra full story of what this factor was and the way it got here to be.
Should you’re accustomed to Foodfight! it’s doubtless as a result of it’s usually referred to as one of many worst motion pictures ever made. It was deliberate to launch in 2003, however quite a few delays, manufacturing setbacks, and different issues led to the CG movie not seeing the sunshine of day till 2012 by way of an insurance coverage firm. And what we acquired was a horrendous mess of product mascots—like Mrs. Butterworth and Charlie Tuna—interacting with ugly characters voiced by folks like Wayne Brady, Eva Longoria, Hillary Duff, and Charlie Sheen, who performs the primary star of the movie, a speaking dog-human hybrid detective. And, as with many motion pictures from the early 2000s, the plan was to launch a tie-in online game alongside the undertaking.
We’ve lengthy identified concerning the existence of this sport however not a lot past that. It was solely confirmed by way of a small snippet of gameplay seen in some random E3 2006 B-roll footage, after which it disappeared. That each one modified final week due to an exquisite weblog on Mimeohead concerning the long-lost Foodfight! sport.
Based on Ziggy, the author behind the brand new weblog who spoke to Foodfight! developer Harley Howe, the sport was being developed for Wii, PS2, Xbox, and DS. The small studio behind the sport, Cat Daddy, began engaged on the undertaking in 2004. The staff put collectively some playable demos and confirmed the sport off at E3 2006.
However as time went on, it grew to become clear to the devs that the folks engaged on the movie have been in method over their heads and have been unlikely to complete Foodfight! on schedule. So in 2008 Cat Daddy canceled manufacturing on the tie-in sport and shifted to different initiatives.
The complete story, full with some fantastic anecdotes concerning the director of Foodfight! arriving on the studio in an enormous fur coat, is value studying on Mimeohead.
And hey, this all has a contented ending. Foodfight! helped Cat Daddy broaden and begin engaged on larger video games. The studio nonetheless exists immediately. Plus Howe was in a position to share belongings from the undertaking on-line. So whereas we are able to’t play the unfinished demos, we are able to a minimum of dig across the tie-in sport’s fashions, music, and different digital bits like online game archeologists. And I assume, Foodfight! (the film) was launched ultimately. Okay, possibly it’s not an entire comfortable ending.
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