Update: Here is the demo reel that was removed from Vimeo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0SKu3s3Pxw
After Disney bought LucasArts, news has slowly trickled out about cancelled games; while the Darth Maul game was not affected by the buyout, it was being actively developed in 2010 until its cancellation. The game would have been developed by Red Fly Studio, the company behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and Thor: God of Thunder.
Now, the Darth Maul game would have been released on the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and PC. And an anonymous source claims it was a stealth action game that was inspired by Batman: Arkham Asylum: “[Maul was] insanely powerful and deadly, but one or two hits will take you out.” Also, the developer originally aimed to tell the origin story, but LucasArts aimed to connect the game to The Clone Wars, “in which it reintroduced the supposedly dead Maul via his brother, Savage Opress.”
Could the Darth Maul game work with Red Fly Studio as the developer?
But then, George Lucas shifted the entire focus of the game: he shifted it to be about Darth Krayt and Darth Talo, who are known from the Dark Horse Comics canon. And as a result, this left the Darth Maul game in utter turmoil; with the developmental team unsure about their future, they expected to be bought out by LucasArts. However, when that did not happen, the Darth Maul game was officially cancelled; which forced the studio to fire seventy employees.
Say what you want to say about the prequels, Darth Maul was an entertaining aspect of a weak film; they basically ‘shot themselves in the foot’ by killing off his character in Episode I. So a Darth Maul stealth game in the vain of Arkham Asylum sounds like a really cool idea; however, Red Fly’s track record has not been very good, which means it could have been another sub-par game that claimed the Arkham series as their inspiration. Meanwhile, a Red Fly developer’s demo reel was found by Superannuation (a Kotaku columnist) on Vimeo, but that was quickly taken down. So for now, gamers will just have to wonder what could have been? For the original article read the May 2014 issue of Game Informer, and please continue to read updates on Gamer Headlines.
Source: IGN