Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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► ► unseen64.net/2008/04/15/crank-the-weasel-xboxps2-cancelled Originally announced at E3 2002, Crank the Weasel is a cancelled action adventure in development by Midway San Diego for PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox.
As it happened 15 years later with Cuphead, Crank’s look and feel were inspired by 1930's American cartoon art style, with a humorous and mature twist somehow similar to Conker’s Bad Fur Day.
Crank The Weasel featured an interesting sandbox gameplay, in which players would freely explore the game’s levels, interact with funny characters and find out many different ways to complete its objectives.
The main goal of Crank was to get money and steal items by creating chaos in the game’s world - spreading lies and making mischief. You could play enemy gangs off against each other, going to Strip Clubs, stealing loot from characters and reselling it to others.
Interaction with characters and gangs in the game would have been particularly ambitious. When Crank would steal something, the original owners would roam the level seeking vengeance and try stealing their missing items from other characters.
The team even licensed the popular song used in Benny Hill’s sketches to play when Crank would bite and infect a character, unleashing a chaotic animal-biting chain reaction across the whole level.

► Thanks to Miles / Hikikomori Media for the voice over! You can check his channel at youtube.com/user/SendMeYourScripts

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► Crank the Weasel Prototype demo released on: assemblergames.com/threads/crank-the-weasel.59137/page-5

► Crank footage cut from:
youtube.com/watch?v=1mkxDeUDt60
youtube.com/watch?v=V9Iv6fXkLBA
youtube.com/watch?v=sE2FChkRbzg
youtube.com/watch?v=qYL1ZGhLgvA
youtube.com/watch?v=q1hMQBnC3jY