XXX: The Game was a first-person shooter action sports video game based on the 2002 Vin Diesel film XXX and its 2005 sequel starring Ice Cube XXX: State of the Union. The game was in development in 2004 by Warthog Games and Z-Axis and published by Activison for the Xbox and possibly for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube.
Plot[]
In the game, you're the new XXX, an extreme agent that task with the National Security Agency to stop the terrorists' hijacking of The President of the United States' plane.
Gameplay[]
The gameplay of the game is a mix between first-person shooting (similar to first-person James Bond games like GoldenEye 007 for the N64) and extreme sports, where in the demo starts with first game section of skydiving, which dives through checkpoints in order to get into The President's plane; after going into The President's plane, you're in first-person shooting segment where you kill enemy terrorists with various weapons like pistols, sub-machine guns, shotguns, and assault rifles. After a cutscene where new XXX agent sees a female terrorist holding The President hostage, then goes back to the second and final skydiving stage where gets back to the NSA plane and the demo ends with a message about the full game, which never happens.
Why It Was Cancelled[]
- XXX: State of the Union was a box-office bomb and it was criticized by reviewers, mainly for the performances, an illogical story, and overuse of CGI-based visual effects for most of the action sequences, and has an approval rating of 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 137 reviews, with an average rating of 3.84/10.
Results[]
- Digital Eclipse developed XXX for the Game Boy Advance and was released one month before the 2002 film.
- Despite the cancellation, however, an August 27, 2004 Xbox build of the game was leaked online on the Hidden Palace website on February 11, 2022 [Link here]