Unseen64: an Archive for Beta & Cancelled Games | Phoenix: The Lost XBOX SRPG Cancelled by Bungie | Unseen64 (ft. SoberDwarf) @unseen64archive | Uploaded December 2016 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
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:
unseen64.net/2016/09/19/video-games-you-will-never-play-unseen64-book

► Thanks to SoberDwarf for the voice-over! 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
phoenix.bungie.org
bungie.wikia.com/wiki/Phoenix
Artworks by Craig Mullins goodbrush.com
1up.com/features/bungie-studio-manager?pager.offset=2
escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/issues/issue_9/56-The-Contrarian-Roll-the-Dice
ign.com/articles/2013/07/09/bungie-co-founder-destiny-creator-on-halos-greatest-tragedy
chicagoreader.com/chicago/monsters-in-a-box/Content?oid=901762
marathon.bungie.org/story/blam.html
halo.bungie.net/inside/teamindex.aspx
wiki.oni2.net/Bungie_West
twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdc2015/presentations/Butcher_DestinyEngine_GDC2015_final.pdf
Canceled Bungie Game 'Gypsum' Revealed youtube.com/watch?v=3ZzZD91OCE8
Bungie Documentary: O Brave New World youtube.com/watch?v=0vTDwW3H5Jw
Bungie Chicago HQ Tour 1999: youtube.com/watch?v=WMqC8x7Upvs
Bungie Studio Tour 2004 youtube.com/watch?v=n9B-ztirZhI
Behind the Scenes Making of Halo 2 youtube.com/watch?v=0q69Msy8ttM
Let's Play Marathon - Trailer youtube.com/watch?v=QKj8NztvGzo
Retrohistories: The Prehistory of Bungie youtube.com/watch?v=t1x2sNtYVBo
Myth: The Fallen Lords youtube.com/watch?v=gE-137Kks80
Game Tapes Raw: Xbox - Bill Gates/The Rock youtube.com/watch?v=WMZa-tNwAzQ
First Halo trailer for XBOX at the 2001 GameStock youtube.com/watch?v=PUurY8ExRi0 + youtube.com/watch?v=pL00DMJfnHo
Chalus Castle Battle youtube.com/watch?v=7qX6JfFdpRw
Making of Halo 2 youtube.com/watch?v=GHoTMhq0vzE
Halo 3 (MCC) Vanguard Achievement Guide youtube.com/watch?v=v5vPHVutkgU