10 Cancelled PC Games We Still Want To Play

Time for more lists, and this time it’s PC Gamer rounding up 10 PC games that have been cancelled but we’d still like to play. Included are Ultima X/Ultima Worlds Online and Fallout 3 (Van Buren).

What we missed: Don’t check your games shelf. Yes, there’s a Fallout 3. It’s not however Van Buren (a codename, not the intended title), which was intended to directly continue the classing top-down RPG series. Bethesda opted for a completely different direction when it got its hands on it, turning it into a first-person game set in a much less civilised part of the wasteland (Fallout 2 in particular was a world in which people were actively rebuilding and leading active lives, not simply sitting in bombed out houses with skeletons still sitting in the bathtubs as if the great nuclear war was a recent event they were all a bit shellshocked by). We loved it for what it was, but we’d still love to have seen what it could have been.

What we got: Fallout: New Vegas uses many story elements planned for Van Buren, including Caesar’s Legion (who were originally meant to have a distaff counterpart called the Daughters of Hecate), a big struggle over the Hoover Dam, and the struggles of the NCR as it attempts to civilise the wasteland. A leaked tech demo is available.