It is a sad when a game gets cancelled, especially if it is one that showed promise and the touch of original thought. The rumours werenвЂ™t helped by the game being removed from Deep SilverвЂ™s website along with the closure of Deep Silver Vienna in 2010. With a release date of Q2 2009 and a long period of silence it was though the game had quietly slunk off to die, cancelled in favour of other projects. Only a handful of previews, interviews and one trailer was ever released of a game that hadnвЂ™t left alpha. While not an entirely grounded game, it seemed like Eutechnyx was on the right track to making an interesting game worth playing, and not only because the concept was ripe for the picking.

Aiming to be more Easy Rider than Sons of Anarchy, Ride to Hell looked like the early stages of the industry taking story-telling more seriously. Biker gangs roving the dusty plains in the era of Richard Nixon and the counter-culture backlash from hippies crying for freedom. With the aim of creating a semi-gritty experience about the character Jake as he returns from the Vietnam war in 1969 to a country he doesnвЂ™t fit into, the concept blended ideas that are as rare as gold dust in the industry. The few pieces of gameplay shown looked promising for a game in early-alpha. Ride to Hell had a large amount of talent behind it, perhaps enough to even out the inexperience of Eutechnyx who up to this point had been making racing and car customization games. The dev team even had former Rockstar members Hannes Seifert and Niki Laber at the helm. This company later went on work with Rockstar to capture Grand Theft Auto IV. The game was being developed with a вЂњmovie-style production modelвЂќ, being the first game ever to use a lot at Universal Studios to get the motion capture aided by Perspective Studio. The now defunct Deep Silver Vienna, in conjunction with both Eutechnyx and Perspective Studios, announced вЂњRide to HellвЂќ, a game вЂњset in the last years of the roaring 1960вЂ™s, a time of Sex, Drugs and Rock вЂN RollвЂќ. This was sadly the case with recent release вЂњRide to Hell: RetributionвЂќ by Eutechnyx, going from a promising 1960вЂ™s adventure to a horrid acid trip over the course of four years.Д¬ast your minds back five years to 2008, when the last console war was still fresh and the last time вЂњnext-genвЂќ could be used as an advertising point. Sometimes though changing a games direction and cutting features can ruin a game, gutting it of the previous style and tone.

It is almost infinitely better to have a short, polished experience than to have a longer, more rough one. A change in direction can save a game or make the experience much more focused. It happens to every game without fail, and it isnвЂ™t necessarily a bad thing. Mechanics and features get shelved, levels get cut and concepts do flying out the window. Games never go from the original idea to the final product without at least a few major changes.

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