Cancelled online-only Conker: Live & Reloaded sequel starred Death, not Conker

Rare has revealed the first details on ‘Conker: Gettin’ Medieval’ a cancelled multiplayer-only Xbox sequel to Conker: Live & Reloaded.

The unannounced project would have seen players going to war in an online “world of Conker” themed around medieval warfare, but wouldn’t have actually starred the squirrel himself, with Rare instead opting to choose Death as the game’s main character.

“At the end of Live & Reloaded we kind of got a ticket to do something else again and Conker was obviously on the cards,” designer Chris Seavor explained in a new video documentary.

“My interest was in multiplayer. That’s where I saw the best scope for me as a designer to do something new and interesting. I wanted to take that idea and just do a game like that where it was completely online and it was a bunch of levels that chained and you could come in with your mates and fight other people. So it was kind of co-operative in the same way that a team game is co-operative. But in Gettin Medieval we added medieval war, so it was siege war as well.

“The whole thing that held it together was Death. Death was going to be the main character. Conker would have a guest appearance, but really it wasn’t about him. It was the world of Conker.”

“Getting Medieval wasn’t a sequel to the N64 version of the game Conker’s Bad Fur Day as a lot of people think,” added concept artist Peter Hentze. “It was actually an Xbox project we worked on after Live & Reloaded.”

It isn’t clear how long the game was in development for or whether it made it beyond pre-production.

Conker: Live & Reloaded launched on Xbox towards the end of the console’s lifecycle, and offered a remastered version of the original Conker’s Bad Fur Day with a revamped online multiplayer mode.

The chances of seeing a proper sequel, however, are pretty small, Seavor believes.

“If it was made now and if it was the same team it wouldn’t… I don’t think we’d do a game that people would want because they’d want the original Conker but again,” he said in an earlier video. “But we’re not the people to make that game, ironically, because we’ve changed. My tastes have changed and I’ve moved on.

“You’d have a hard time getting it made now so the only way for anyone to play it is to play the original because I don’t think there’s going to be anything like it again.”

The first episode in a new Conker series, Conker’s Big Reunion’ launched on Project Spark back in April. The remaining episodes, however, have since been cancelled.

Source: Rare