According to an interview with wrestler Tommy Dreamer, ECW had an settlement in place with Rockstar Games to develop a recreation with it earlier than Acclaim ended up taking the reigns.
As found by Hard4Games on YouTube (by way of, VGC), the interview with Dreamer, who was certainly one of ECW’s prime abilities on the flip of the millennium, sees the wrestler focus on how Acclaim got here to develop the sport.
“Video games were key for your success as a wrestling company, and we had a lot of companies bidding for that game,” he reminisced. “There was a fan, who worked for this company, and they were like ‘Man, we want this ECW game to be our number two behind this other game, and it’s revolutionary, it’s a perfect fit for ECW.”
Dreamer goes on to debate how the fan attended an ECW enviornment present and spoke in regards to the “other game”, mentioning that “We just need our one game to hit, and if that game hits you will be our next game”.
According to Dreamer, the corporate “couldn’t wait due to financial reasons” as Acclaim had misplaced its license for WWE, main them to supply cash “on the back end as opposed to the front end”. He then goes on to disclose, “That other game, that if it hit we were going to take off – that game and that franchise was Grand Theft Auto – and you think about how ECW would have fit that whole genre, and that guy was Kevin Gill who worked there, he was a big ECW fan”.
Gill is credited on Rockstar titles reminiscent of Midnight Club: Street Racing and Smuggler’s Run, and spoke in regards to the deal in an interview with Tru Heel Heat Wrestling earlier in 2022. He talked about that he “actually put together a deal for Rockstar Games to do the ECW video game” with proprietor Paul Heyman.
It appears Gill has totally different causes for the deal not going forward to those publicised by Dreamer although, as he means that the corporate was uncertain of ECW’s future and sustainability, saying that the corporate’s “financial situation was getting very shaky and at that time, this is 1998, could have been 1999, all the talent was leaving”.
With video games taking years to develop and costing some huge cash, Gill says Rockstar had to consider whether or not ECW can be round in just a few years when the sport can be set for launch.
Whatever the explanation for the deal not going forward, ECW ended up signing the take care of Acclaim to create ECW Hardcore Revolution and ECW Anarchy Rulz, which had been met with nice criticism. ECW ended up collapsing in early 2001, owing virtually £7.5million ($9million) till its property had been purchased by WWE in 2003.
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