Unreleased Xbox cover
Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku is an action-adventure video game released in 2004 by Adrenium Games and published by Sega and based on the Samurai Jack animated television series on Cartoon Network. The series' original voice actors, including Phil LaMarr, Mako Iwamatsu, Jeff Bennett, John DiMaggio, and Jennifer Hale, reprised their respective roles for the game. The game was released for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube. An Xbox version of the game was planned, but never released, even though it received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. With Shadow of Aku being unreleased on the Xbox, the next licensed Samurai Jack game, Battle Through Time, was released on August 21, 2020, become the first Samurai Jack game available on Microsoft platforms.
Why It Was Cancelled[]
- An Xbox version of the game never released for unknown reasons.
Results[]
- An Xbox version of the game was permanently cancelled.
- Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku got only the PlayStation 2 and the GameCube versions.