Phoenix: The Lost XBOX SRPG Cancelled by Bungie | Unseen64 (ft. SoberDwarf)
Channel: Unseen64: an Archive for Beta & Cancelled Games
Date: 2016-12-14

Before Halo and Destiny, in late 90’ Jason Jones, Bungie's co-founder along with Alex Seropian, had the idea of creating a fantasy tactical role playing game where you fight against huge armies of characters. It was a project nicknamed “The Giant Bloody War Game”, inspired by movies such as Braveheart and fantasy novels such as The Black Company. This was the conception of Myth: The Fallen Lords, a game that became another big success for Bungie and holder of many innovations for the RTS genre in 1997. Bungie was officially purchased by Microsoft in 2000, when the company was trying to acquire developers to create exclusive games for their debut console: the Xbox. The Myth franchise was transferred to its publisher Take-Two Interactive, but Microsoft and Bungie did not forget their RTS fans and were already planning a new tactical RPG that would have revolutionized the genre on console. This new project was internally known as “Phoenix” (or "Breach") and it would have been one of the first exclusive Xbox games by Bungie.

► You can read more about Phoenix and many more lost games in our book: Video Games You Will Never Play:
https://www.unseen64.net/2016/09/19/video-games-you-will-never-play-unseen64-book/

► Thanks to SoberDwarf for the voice-over! https://www.youtube.com/c/SoberDwarfShow 

► This video is released under Fair Use, to help preserving the unseen history of video games.

► References and footage used:
Full article from the Unseen64 book - Video Games You Will Never Play
http://phoenix.bungie.org/ 
http://bungie.wikia.com/wiki/Phoenix 
Artworks by Craig Mullins  http://www.goodbrush.com 
http://www.1up.com/features/bungie-studio-manager?pager.offset=2 
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/issues/issue_9/56-The-Contrarian-Roll-the-Dice 
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/09/bungie-co-founder-destiny-creator-on-halos-greatest-tragedy 
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/monsters-in-a-box/Content?oid=901762 
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/blam.html 
https://halo.bungie.net/inside/teamindex.aspx 
http://wiki.oni2.net/Bungie_West 
http://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdc2015/presentations/Butcher_DestinyEngine_GDC2015_final.pdf 
Canceled Bungie Game 'Gypsum' Revealed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZzZD91OCE8 
Bungie Documentary: O Brave New World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vTDwW3H5Jw 
Bungie Chicago HQ Tour 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMqC8x7Upvs
Bungie Studio Tour 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9B-ztirZhI 
Behind the Scenes Making of Halo 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q69Msy8ttM 
Let's Play Marathon - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKj8NztvGzo 
Retrohistories: The Prehistory of Bungie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1x2sNtYVBo 
Myth: The Fallen Lords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-137Kks80
Game Tapes Raw: Xbox - Bill Gates/The Rock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMZa-tNwAzQ 
First Halo trailer for XBOX at the 2001 GameStock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUurY8ExRi0 + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL00DMJfnHo 
Chalus Castle Battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qX6JfFdpRw
Making of Halo 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHoTMhq0vzE 
Halo 3 (MCC) Vanguard Achievement Guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5vPHVutkgU