Please join their stream on Twitch the 28th of January to see more from this lost game and to ask every questions you have directly to Volition! This is really important as if this stream will be successful Volition will release even more info on other cancelled games!īelow you can download Saints Row: Undercover walk through, design doc and fully playable prototype, also shared by the lovely people at Volition. You're not dreaming, Destructoid reported today that Saints Row Undercover, a PSP project by Volition studios that was soon cancelled, had some screenshots and videos released last week. During Volition’s stream on Twitch on the 22January 2016 they officially shown Saints Row: Undercover to the world and this Thursday (Jan 28) they will do a dedicated stream around 4pm CST. After talking about it with colleagues and with the support of Alexander Mejia (Video Producer at Volition) and Mike Watson (Community Manager at Volition), they were able to convince their bosses that such a lost games should have been shared with the fans, as an interesting curiosity and a piece of gaming history to preserve. Only many years later Saints Row: Undercover was found again thanks to Josh Stinson (Associate Video Editor at Volition), that stumbled upon that PSP dev kit while looking around their office. However Freakler, who reported this on hackinformer, managed to get this working for the PSP. The game is Saints Row Undercover and at the time of release it was break./breaknot playable on the PSP. The game was cancelled and the PSP dev kit on which the project was created was hidden away in one of Volition’s storage rooms. On their tumblr page about a week ago they announced the release of a unfinished and unreleased game for the PSP. Savage Entertainment developed a short playable prototype, but unfortunately after multiple reviews Volition decided that Undercover just wasn’t meeting the standards of what they thought a Saints Row game should be. The game would have had 20 main story missions to complete, along with the usual SR side activities to earn respect points. The plan for Undercover was to create something similar to the GTA games for the PSP, keeping the core gameplay of the series, with crazy gameplay, a fun world to explore, character customization and coop multiplayer.
We would have took the role of an undercover cop, charged with investigating the civil war within the Saints, and at the end of the game we could have decided to join them and betray the police. The Third Street Saints, who the player would have joined, possessed only a little area in the middle. In Saints Row PSP the city would have been split as a result of a civil war within the Saints. Saints Row: The Fall was to be set between Saints Row 1 and 2, but thanks to the success of SR2 they later decided to create a sequel to the second game, to expand its story and making it more interesting for the fans. Initially Volition wanted to simply port Saints Row 2 to the PSP, but after a while the project became a new, original sequel, with its own story and characters.
This game was meant to be the first entry of Saints Row for portable consoles and while a 3DS version was also announced many years ago (titled Saints Row: Drive-By), neither of them were ever released.ĭevelopment on Undercover was originally started by Mass Media Games (that already worked with Volition on the PS3 version of Saints Row 2) and then transferred to Savage Entertainment (the same team that ported Star Wars: Battlefront II and Medal of Honor: Vanguard to the PSP).
Judging by an internal time stamp, it was likely compiled on September 3, 2009.Saints Row: Undercover (also known as Saints Row: The Fall in its early phase) is a cancelled chapter in the popular over-the-top open world series by Volition, planned to be released for Sony’s PSP. The released prototype is the last known build compiled prior to its cancellation. Renaming BOOT.BIN to EBOOT.BIN will allow most PSP systems to boot the game if the unit's custom firmware allows the use of 64MB of RAM, which is not available on PSP-1000 units. Unmodified, the prototype is unplayable on a real PSP with modern CFW, as the BOOT.BIN file is used and not the EBOOT.BIN one. It's rather unfinished though, with buggy physics and only one mission with a voice track.
After the game was discovered inside storage, the ISO was released by Volition themselves, except without radio music tracks, due to copyright issues. Originally slated to be a port of Saints Row 2, the game was eventually altered into its own entry, but developmental reasons caused it to be cancelled. Saints Row Undercover, previously titled Saints Row: The Fall and codenamed "Saints Row 2 PSP", is an unreleased PlayStation Portable entry in the series.
Extract the game zip file into your PSP folder (extracted file extension. Add info about the prototype, its features, and content not used within it. As to mount the ISO games on PS3, it is essential to extract the games from the.