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However, Double Fine's inexperience with game development and a failure to meet deadlines ultimately led to Microsoft withdrawing their support. Psychonauts was originally published by Microsoft and billed as an Xbox exclusive, with development beginning in 2001. A platform game with puzzle and adventure elements, players are able to use a range of psychic abilities (from levitation to telekinesis) to both navigate the physical world of the camp grounds, as well as levels set within the inner psyche of the different characters. You play as Razputin 'Raz' Aquato, a child gifted with psychic powers who wishes to become a 'Psychonaut,' a secret agent who uses their psychic abilities to infiltrate minds.

The brainchild of LucasArts alumni Tim Schafer, Psychonauts was the flagship game of Schafer's Double Fine Productions studio. Psychonauts Raz and Lily, preteen Psychonauts As for a true sequel or reboot, Spencer hopes to eventually find the studio that is a ' good fit' for the IP and with the involvement of Futatsugi.

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However, at E3 2016, an announcement was made that a remaster of the original Phantom Dust would be coming to the Xbox One, as well as to PCs running Windows 10, with a scheduled release in 2017. At E3 2014, a new Phantom Dust title developed by Darkside Studios was announced for the Xbox One, but this fell through after Darkside Studios closed down. Microsoft Studios' vice president Phil Spencer also expressed a desire to reboot the game in an interview that same year. In 2013, Futatsugi expressed his hopes of funding a sequel to Phantom Dust, possibly via Kickstarter. However, commercially it sold just over 100,000 copies despite the critical praise. On release, Phantom Dust was praised for its graphical fidelity and ambitious and innovative combat system. PVP was also available for up to four players, with support for local splitscreen and online matchmaking via Xbox Live. The combat areas featured destructible environments that players can influence with their skills, changing the battlefield as missions progressed. A third-person action-RPG, players collect skills in the form of collectible cards (over 300 in total) to form their 'Arsenal' (deck) to take into combat. Set in a post-apocalyptic world that is nothing more than a dust-filled wasteland, you play an unnamed protagonist who is known as an Esper, someone who can control the Dust around them to combat others with a variety of skills. Phantom Dust Phantom Dust in-game screenshotĬreated by Panzer Dragoon director Yukio Futatsugi, Phantom Dust was an Xbox exclusive released in 2004.

It is considered one of (if not the) worst games on the original Xbox and is frequently included in many 'Worst Games of All Time' lists. On release, Drake was heavily criticized for its simplistic graphics, over-use of stock sound effects, disjointed narrative, poorly implemented auto-targeting controls, a frustrating camera, and bug-ridden gameplay. Majesco only gave Idol FX 6 months to develop the game, and the result was a near unplayable mess.

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Idol FX had aspirations for the game to be the beginnings of a multimedia franchise, with a tie-in comicbook and a potential animated television series planned. You play as Drake, an undead assassin on the warpath to avenge his murdered clan and gifted with several supernatural abilities, such as bullet-time, running on walls, and a never-ending supply of guns that he pulls out of his trench coat instead of reloading. Drake of the 99 Dragons Drake of the 99 Dragons original Xbox cover artĭeveloped by Idol FX and released on the Xbox in 2003, Drake of the 99 Dragons was meant to be 'the result of an imaginary collaboration between famed Hong Kong action director John Woo and Batman: The Animated Series artist Bruce Timm' with its cel-shaded comicbook aesthetic and over-the-top third person 'gun-fu' action. It did give us Meatloaf cast as a vampire pimp in a terrible powdered wig though. All three films were directed by the infamous Uwe Boll and are widely regarded as some of the worst video game movies of all time. The first BloodRayne film was released in 2005 to overwhelmingly negative reviews and was a box office bomb, its commercial failure forcing the sequels to go direct-to-video.