While most of Red Dead Revolver was scrapped when it came time for Rockstar to develop Red Dead Redemption, that wasn’t the original plan. That’s how we ended up with the Red Dead Revolver we eventually played. Rockstar San Diego also took that time to give the game a much stronger overall narrative and fix its originally loathsome controls. Once Rockstar had the game, they requested that Rockstar San Diego tone some of the game’s more absurd elements (even though the final game was still pretty crazy). It’s been suggested that Capcom was also trying to secure the rights to publish Grand Theft Auto in Japan as part of this deal.

That led to numerous delays.Įventually, Capcom agreed to let Rockstar pick-up the project under the condition that Capcom was allowed to publish the game in Japan if it was ever finished. That’s kind of a cool idea, but the problem was that there were a lot of cool and weird ideas being tossed around for the game that nobody could seem to make work when it came time to polish the final product. In fact, the original version of the protagonist was basically a ghost who was looking for revenge against its killers (which was based on High Plains Drifter). The game’s story was little more than an homage to old westerns that had little to say on its own account. Characters were basically inside jokes meant to represent people within the studio. As the video noted, the project bore a strange resemblance to a game known as Hired Guns which was developed by DMA Design the studio that would go on to make the Grand Theft Auto series and become known as Rockstar North.Īctually, the whole project sounded like a bit of a mess at that time. That game utilized a four-person split-screen that allowed you to control four members of a S.W.A.T. It seems that Capcom’s Red Deadactually started as a project called SWAT. Rockstar Games then acquired the rights to the Red Dead Revolverseries in order to publish it under the Rockstar label.

However, Capcom decided to “cancel” the game in 2003 following what they felt was a lack of progress. It seems that the initial plan was for Rockstar and Capcom to work together on the project. That plan hit a bit of a snag in 2002 when Take-Two Interactive acquired Angel Studios and renamed them Rockstar San Diego. Initially developed by a studio named Angel Studios, Red Dead Revolver was supposed to be released as a Capcom title. Yes, in case you didn’t know, Capcom was the original publisher of Red Dead Revolver. A new video from YouTube channel People Make Games explores Capcom‘s bizarre version of Red Dead Revolver.

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