Practically 20 years after the superhero motion sport was unceremoniously canceled, a playable prototype for Daredevil: The Man With out Concern has appeared on-line. Developed by the now-defunct 5,000 Ft. Studios, the beat ‘em up title would have seen gamers getting into the footwear of the titular superhero to cease a gang battle that’s enveloped Hell’s Kitchen.

A playable PS2 prototype for the canceled Daredevil: The Man With out Concern sport has been posted on-line

As reported by Eurogamer, new footage of Daredevil: The Man With out Concern has proven up on-line together with a playable prototype of the PlayStation 2 model of the sport. The prototype, which was posted to online game archive website Hidden Palace, offers avid gamers an opportunity to check out the Marvel superhero sport practically 20 years after its cancellation. Whereas the sport is reportedly rife with bugs, with Hidden Palace noting that glitches may cause gamers to clip by way of partitions, many of the content material that was completed previous to Daredevil: The Man With out Concern’s cancellation is outwardly out there within the leaked copy.

Initially meant to function a unfastened assortment of a few of the most iconic moments from the protagonist’s lengthy profession as a superhero, Daredevil: The Man With out Concern was a third-person motion title deliberate for launch on PC, PS2, and Xbox. Following the announcement of a Daredevil film starring Ben Affleck, the scale and scope of the sport ballooned drastically resulting in quite a few manufacturing delays.

Deliberate for a February 2003 launch to coincide with Affleck’s movie, the sport was repeatedly pushed again earlier than Daredevil: The Man With out Concern was canceled outright following the departure of a number of 5,000 Ft. Studios builders and Marvel’s refusal to approve its launch. The completed sport would have seen gamers acrobatically flipping and preventing by way of Hell’s Kitchen to try to deliver an finish to a gang battle that erupted following the obvious assassination of prison mastermind, Kingpin.

Whereas avid gamers won’t ever get an opportunity to see what a totally completed model of Daredevil: The Man With out Concern may have been, not less than there’s nonetheless hope for the Marvel hero to make a long-awaited return to gaming. Following years of rumors about Daredevil making an look in Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man collection, it seems the crime-fighting lawyer might quickly have a cameo. Latest remarks from Insomniac’s Senior Inventive Director Bryan Intihar concerning a Daredevil Easter Egg in Spider-Man 2 trace that crossover content material might be within the works, with Intihar telling avid gamers to “Keep tuned.”