An uncharted early look at Eight Days' animation

by Andrew Yoon { Sep 20th 2008 at 2:15PM }

Eight Days is a canceled London Studios project (that's now replaced by EyePet). Videos of the game's early development are starting to leak onto the internet, revealing the game's reliance on the now-standard cover mechanic employed by most every third person shooter on the market. This video reminds us a lot of Uncharted -- but it appears this main character is a lot faster than our good ol' friend Nathan Drake. Check out the video, after the cut.

[Thanks, danislice!]

Tags: eight-days

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MexicanTerrorist @ Sep 20th 2008 2:23PM

How the hell did the mutated monkey get this cancelled?
Dammit!

Averna @ Sep 20th 2008 7:42PM

The textures on those blocks are horrible and the landscape is really boring *giggle*

I really dont know who gave the go ahead to axe this puppy. Maybe it had no direction story wise... but hey, look at Uncharted. Start with a good story, run out of ideas and through zombies in *shrug*

TinyTim121 @ Sep 21st 2008 1:40AM

I agree with you Averna - only reason i can think of this game being canned - story

Because seriously, gameplay possibilities, who WOULDN'T want to run around shooting the shit out of deserts/streets/office blocks/warehouses/banks or whatever with those annimations?

I mean Uncharted was slick outdoors...this would have been an epic urban action game...Kinda like Stranglehold?

SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ Sep 21st 2008 4:03AM

yea when i saw him sliding over the boxes, i immediately thought of Stranglehold.....which i would love to pick up if i could find on the cheap lol.....

Andrew Conegliano @ Sep 20th 2008 2:35PM

thats really good cover animation. i would much rather have this game than the eyepet game. They should revive this game.

Arnon @ Sep 20th 2008 2:41PM

This makes me think of Stranglehold lol

jay @ Sep 20th 2008 9:39PM

same here. because of the walking animations and camera view.

on @ Sep 20th 2008 2:41PM

the animation looks awesome. how do i make the developers to start working on this game again?

DrunkRaba @ Sep 20th 2008 2:42PM

Too bad this got canned, I was looking forward to this a lot more than Eye pet. But I know a lot of kids will be all over the eye pet if it gets promoted well.

Jake @ Sep 20th 2008 2:44PM

can't believe they canceled it, looks great, i was really looking forward to it, and now looking at this makes me want it more lol

koehler83 @ Sep 20th 2008 2:44PM

I think it should be pretty obvious why it was canned. It's just another 3rd person shooter with an emphasis on its cover system. Woooo

As much as EyePet will obviously receive a segmented audience, I think the technology behind it was really able to wow alot more people than this tech demo.

The tech demo here looks pretty cool, definitely. I really like the number of variations in slides, rolls, shuffles, dives, but who knows how good the story was. The script could have been complete garbage or cliche. The environments were likely to look washed out and monotone. In the end, the world is likely to benefit just as much by seeing this video as they would by receiving a final product.

Hashbrown Hunter @ Sep 20th 2008 3:51PM

That's one of the reasons they used to explain the cancellation. And honestly I think it was a good decision.

EyePet is innovative and something that isn't a shooter...BUT it's reliance on the PlayStation Eye is it's only problem. People may not be willing to dish out the dough.

And Eight Days looked like it may have had a very good story. So it's really a lose-lose unless EyePet can rise above it's gimmick.

MrXile @ Sep 21st 2008 9:10AM

The PlaystationEYE is only £20. Its a platinum game and a little bit more - not too much outlay, and some of the games in progress for this little piece of magic will propell the PS3 into a whole new audience.

EYEPET is only the beginning. (IMO)

Think Adrian @ Sep 20th 2008 2:48PM

Looks really great!

but won't his pants get ruined from all that sliding?

Think Adrian @ Sep 20th 2008 2:48PM

Looks really great!

but won't his pants get ruined from all that sliding?

Autopsy15 @ Sep 21st 2008 7:55PM

Looks really great!

but won't his pants get ruined from all that double posting?

Arnon @ Sep 21st 2008 9:24PM

Metal_Gear @ Sep 20th 2008 2:58PM

Is it really solidly cancelled? Or just put on hold? I have heard conflicting reports...

Either way it does look snazzy, Uncharted had loads more animations though and it was walking along high cover that went lower. Then again, this was just a tech exercise.

Hopefully the 'rolling around on the floor' stuff, going around corners while staying under cover and sliding under low obsticles will be picked up by ND for Uncharted 2 and this game will become even more obselete.

Metal_Gear @ Sep 20th 2008 3:00PM

*and it was the walking along high cover that went to medium and then to lower cover that looked jerky.

That will teach me to type while watching TV... edit button please.

Maverick Saturn @ Sep 20th 2008 3:37PM

100% Cancelled

Though, saying that, the files are still there, theres no reason why after Eyepet they can't fuse this game with The Getaway and make GTA-esque / Uncharted-esque style third person sandbox shoot em up.

monkeyninja @ Sep 20th 2008 4:03PM

its obvious why it was canceled... they were making a game about sawyer without his permission

heckteck @ Sep 20th 2008 4:31PM

lol i was thinking the same thing........lol......thats where the island took him a canceled video game and he is doomed to living in this video forever

Kristopher gonzalez @ Sep 20th 2008 5:09PM

People should have hyped this and getaway more.
The media should have created a little more buzz about these games instead of neglecting them.

This is what happens when the publishers sees that the game is not getting any attention. It gets canned mid-production.

JaseH @ Sep 20th 2008 5:49PM

Is it just me, or am I the only one who thought it looked like there was an actual person in a video game?

That's how smooth the animations & stuff are. It's like there's real emotion in wanting to "cover"... and the leg motions in rotating the body from one wall to another is slick.

Just don't get why someone would can this game. Looks like it could have really been set apart from others. Especially that "Arizona" setting in that E3 video we saw ages ago. Or was it some other state? - Not sure.

Oh well.

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Viper @ Sep 20th 2008 7:43PM

This looked much better then Star Wars - Force Unleashed. Does anyone here think SW is good?

Joe @ Sep 20th 2008 10:26PM

May be if people keep asking Sony to bring back Eight Days and the Getaway may be Sony will let these games come out.

anthonyjh @ Sep 20th 2008 11:00PM

I don't know why people threw a fit over this game's cancellation. Nothing was known about it. The Getaway on the other hand, that really burned my britches. I absolutely loved the first, and thought that another game was deserved.

tyler31763 @ Sep 21st 2008 7:41AM

well eyepet would sell better because the little kids would want it then the parents have to get up to 3 things a ps3 a eyetoy and (or) the game wich equels $$$. but eight days would be awesome it looked better than the cg k2 trailer.

Metal_Gear @ Sep 21st 2008 7:59AM

Funny how this game was barely talked about, they cancel it and all of a sudden, because we see a little bit of the animation, it was the game that would take the PS3 sales ahead of the 360 (claimed) sales in the US. :|

The Getaway was a POS, all they did was swear, the writing was terrible, they couldnt say anything without uttering some 4 letter expleteive and the first two games had less to do than GTA4, outside of the story.

It would be a huge mistake to increase the kids interest with the PS3 via LBP and not capitalise with EyePet and other games like it. Not 'Generic Shooter #643638457 /w 'Cool' Animations and Cover.

Maverick Saturn @ Sep 21st 2008 10:24AM

If followed in the footsteps of GTA and with 8 Days cover system, a getaway game with a good ol hardcore british gangster mob story plot "right ol geezer!" could have pulled off pretty well, and for once, I don't have to be in New York for the 10000000000000th time in a game, I can actually play in a city I'm used to, a city I know. That with the hijacking of red buses, raiding the london eye, breaking into buckingham palace, and bam, there you have it, a killer PS3 sandbox game to match that or come close to that of GTA status.

It could have been done, it really could have, I only wish they had me in charge of the plot, I already have original british gangster themed ideas popping up in my head. Could have had Danny Dyer appear in the game :D