THE ATOLL | The Canceled PlayStation 3DO Waterworld Game

In this investigative video we will uncover everything we know about the canceled PlayStation 3DO Waterworld game.
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Deep dive (educational, explained, did you know?, everything we know about, complete history, theory, video essay, unboxing, exploring, playthrough) into Waterworld, the 1995 cult, science fiction, post-apocalyptic, fantasy, action film Waterworld, starring Jack Black, as the Smoker pilot, Kevin Costner, as the Mariner, and Jeanne Tripplehorn, as Helen, Tina Majorino, as Enola, Michael Jeter, as old Gregor, R.D. Call, as the Enforcer, and Dennis Hopper, as the Deacon, and Directed by Kevin Reynolds. A close look at the canceled Waterworld game, vaporware, lost media, retro gaming for the PlayStation and 3DO game published by Interplay Entertainment and developed by Software Creations with the help of Ste Pickford, Carleton Handley and Peter Scott.

[@hex4393]

This channel is such a treasure

[@TheAtoll]

Aw, thanks! I just love the obscure!

[@ChrisN1973]

To think of what could have been...?!

[@wickedgood3793]

What still could be. A waterworld game now would be insane!!!! It's just one remake movie away from millions in the pocket.

[@TheAtoll]

Yeah, I feel like this would have been my favorite Waterworld game. It's cool how Interplay was really trying to do something different from what Ocean Software was offering.

[@Richalvarez]

Incredible content all around an amazing Movie. I have never understood the hate around Waterworld. Wish we could have had more movies in this universe. The new cameras that James Cameron has developed for Avatar that are essentially waterproof would be perfect for a sequel or remake.

[@TheAtoll]

Yes, always wishing for more waterworld! At least we still have the live stunt show going strong!

[@JimmyTomes]

Waterworld TV Series NOW! You better cast The Atoll as well.

[@TheAtoll]

Haha, thank you, that would be truly an honor!

[@josephmontanaro2350]

​@@TheAtollneed to see my man playing a historian trying to put togather the pre cataclysm worlds history as a sort of shout out to the channel

[@GerSanRiv]

Your videos are always a nice niche treat.

[@TheAtoll]

Haha, "nice niche treat"! I love the symmetry of that phrase you came up with!

[@tardiscommand1812]

Kind of off topic, but one of the fire divers in the Waterworld Live Action, is Little Hercules all grown up. Remember the 6 year old years back that had huge muscles? Was famous for a bit, now he’s got a beard and diving for that show.

[@TheAtoll]

Haha, yes, I have come upon this interesting bit of trivia in my endless Waterworld research!

[@latinelover24]

Another banger!!! As an avid Waterworld enthusiasts, this was a good vid!! Its why I love this community! Keep on making vids on this classic!

[@TheAtoll]

As I always say, if you keep watching them, I'll keep making them!

[@thedrunkenfish5855]

God what I would give to work on the soundtrack of anything WW related. Amazing how one movie can cause such a fascination and creation of Lore.

[@TheAtoll]

Yeah, Waterworld, both the movie and the games, have such good sound tracks!

[@Blazbaros]

I think the Wave Racer concept probably would have turned out better, maybe if it functioned kinda like Star Fox's on rail shooter.

[@TheAtoll]

Oh, yes! I really like that idea! I think that could have worked very nicely.

[@HistoricNerd]

Outstanding Research effort here.

[@TheAtoll]

Aw man! That means a ton coming from you Historic Nerd!

[@Luitente]

Amazing that just one movie can create such a large amount of content . Well done ser! I applaud your admiration and devotion to this movie

[@TheAtoll]

Thank you! Yeah, it constantly astounds me every time I make a new discovery or learn something new about this movie I hadn't already seen. Waterworld is forever.

[@josephmontanaro2350]

Don't get me wrong in excited for the upcoming TV show but I'm more excited to see your lore breakdowns when it comes out, it's like watching star wars films and shows are great but it's the super observent lore addicts that pull every single detail and make it compelling to watch, your like the ekhartsladder (star wars), anomalous dugout (stalker) and Jethleid (command and conqure) of water world, hell I know all of yall focus on diffrent franchises but God I'd love to see all of yall and some other lore lords get togather for some kind of mega colab video (infinity war of lore youtubers) although I have no idea what yall would even cover but I'd watch it if yall legit made a meme video on the lore of watching paint dry unironicly

[@cassidy7255]

Thank you so much for the amazing content. You do such a superb job diving into the unknowns of this incredible franchise. Always looking forward to the next video!

[@TheAtoll]

Glad you enjoy it! Yes, more videos coming soon!

[@bmandibles]

You should try and track down some of those developers from the unreleased game and make a video if you can get them to release some gameplay. Awesome video brotha, keep it up.

[@TheAtoll]

Aw, yes, do you mean the unreleased Saturn game? Yeah, I would love to learn more about that game, seeing as it was 100% finished but we actually know less about it then the PSOne/3DO game.

[@martydotzone]

Mr The Atoll you are the greatest deep diver into retro media on the internet :D

[@TheAtoll]

Thank you! That's very nice of you to say! I love the obscure, haha.

[@SnakerShaker]

You create unique videos for eternity that many people will still watch in the distant future. AWESOME

[@TheAtoll]

I hope so! I really wanted to pioneer a different type of KZbin experience with this channel, by taking a super detailed look at a small, or even kind of nonexistent, fandom. Its just so much more awarding to make these discoveries and tell these untold stories.

[@1995Batman]

Another great video. Always like the variety of videos on your channel.

[@TheAtoll]

Thank you Batman! Our channels together create an interesting time-capsule for 1995.

[@1995Batman]

Just need some others to cover Congo, Johnny Mnemonic and Judge Dredd and we'll have the summer of 1995 sorted.

[@adamgouveia-b4g]

Whoaa super cool info, great research. The water world Sega Saturn game wow like a mystical treasure!!

[@TheAtoll]

It sure is SpikePit! Maybe someday it will get leaked and we get to play it together!

[@MadMaxBible]

Amazing insight into this part of the Waterworld universe. I really liked your 3D renders, made me think if it's possible to recreate or create a Waterworld game! I think it'd be possible!

[@TheAtoll]

Hey MMB! Thanks for making it out to the premier of this one! Let me know if you would ever like to collaborate, I would love to help out with a section on one of your video if ever the opportunity was there. Also, can't wait for Furiosa and your coverage of it! Only 6 months to go!

[@omarhaq9635]

imagine if they released it for both PC, Ps4 and Ps5 the game would’ve been so epic to play

[@cannonballkid]

I really enjoy your commitment to Waterworld. Keep it up.

[@TheAtoll]

Thank you, I will do!

[@Clear224-77]

Super underrated movie, channel, and soundtrack. You make great vids bro! Please keep it up!

[@TheAtoll]

Thank you, and agreed! Yeah, I have taken a break from the channel during the past two months. but just within the past 24 hours I have started on a new script! So a new video should be out by the end of January.

[@alpaykasal2902]

at 5:58, I think some info might be wrong... Silicon Graphic ran an OS called IRIX (a unix variant) which coul not have run 3DS Max or Deluxe Paint. 3DS Max (first running on DOS pc's, simply called 3DS) ran on on x86 Windows pc's... and Deluxe Paint was native to the Commodore Amiga (though it may have been ported to Windows on the pc). Neither of those tools (I used both) were not ever used on SGI's / Irix. Great videos btw, i love this channel.

[@TheAtoll]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video! Interesting point about the Silicon Graphics's OS. I certainly have no deep knowledge of their specific workings, and I was just reporting on I had dug up from my resources. It makes me wonder if their workflow was to model the 3D assets and draw the 2D sprites on PCs, then do the final render on the beefy Silicon Graphics workstations?

[@alpaykasal2902]

@@TheAtoll I'd guess they used the SGI to 3d model and render all assets - this looks like it was the process for backgrounds and animation cycles, which were then cut up into sprites. Donkey Kong Country famously did this - it was the 1st time the public saw high quality graphics and wondered what magic just updated their Nintendo consoles :) The 2D tech was still the same, but exporting images from software intended for hollywood production was an excellent hack. The underlying tech of consoles and home computers of th eday def could NOT have rendered these in realtime, not for many years. Here's a video showing DK Country. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4K7mHWOgNONaZI

[@mikemike499499]

Keep up the great work!

[@TheAtoll]

Mike Mike! Thank for the generous donation, and I apologize for the delayed response (I moved to a new apparent this week and was very busy after the release of this video)! Yes, I totally plan on continuing to make more Waterworld deep dives for the next year or two, until I have checked off every video idea I have come up with. After that, who knows! Have you ever watched or read The Postman?

[@masonmonroe2243]

I've always been surprised there were never party supplies and stationary from Water World

[@TheAtoll]

Haha! Yes, I would have collected it if they did!

[@GamesThatWerent]

That was a fantastic video and look back at the project. Thank you very much for the shout out too! Hopefully some day something of both versions will surface in the future.

[@TheAtoll]

Now this is an honor! Thank you so much for commenting GTW! I have a huge amount of respect for all the archival work you do. These stories could so easily be lost to time. A wonderful book as well, so happy to own a copy!

[@GamesThatWerent]

@@TheAtoll Thank you for the kind words and no problem at all. Glad you liked the book too :)

[@Leprechaunproduction]

I love the idea that the only remaining copy of this game is in that old, dusty mac that seemingly can't be booted up. I don't know if it could even be managed, but it'd be great if some old computer enthusiasts could get their hands on it and try to get it working, and possibly even extract the game and get it into a playable state. What a story that would be! By the way, nice job with the new 3D renders! They looked great!

[@TheAtoll]

That would be an extraordinary story! Well, hopefully Peter Scott gets that MAC into the right hands! (also thank you for the kind words about the 3D, I had a ton of fun making them! Means a lot hearing that from you Leprechaun!)

[@josephmontanaro2350]

​@@TheAtollI mean this is legit how the original battlefront 3 was saved from the dustbin of history, hell the command and conqure remaster was made possible by one of the devs cleaning out his attic or garage or something and finding a drive or disk with the lost source code, hell with how dedicated people are these days give the right people enough time and they could make a remake just off of the storyboarding and input of the OG devs, hell if universal let them I'd love to see the OGs themselves remake the game with modern tech but in an intentionaly retro theme but useing the power of modern dev tools, making the most of 64bit systems, modern engines and also all the skills the devs have gained over almost 3 decades

[@StilledFox]

I never got notifications for your last two uploads 😢 glad I came by to check on ya! Love the content so much, please keep it coming ♡ Waterworld is my favourite movie, it makes me so happy that there’s a small fandom for it ♡

[@TheAtoll]

I'm glad you checked back in! Yeah, I never get notifications either, even after I have hit the bell on a channel. I really hope YT fixes this, it is hurting smaller channels for sure.

[@dylanpelo]

I don't have notifications but for three channels. Yours is one. Great video as always!

[@TheAtoll]

Haha, heck yeah Dylan! I'm glad you're enjoying this obscure little corner of the internet!

[@alanbalan3539]

Woooo, minor contribution made! Thanks as always.

[@TheAtoll]

Yes! Thank you so much Alan Balan, those articles really helped out!

[@stevew8513]

That game was on a Quadra 700 Macintosh, it's not too hard getting those things running again. Mostly it's the PRAM battery on the motherboard that's dead, making the machine not boot. I saw a video a few days ago with a guy cleaning up and starting an old Quadra 700 in fact. There was also in development an Atari Jaguar game, but I believe it would have been a color version of the Virtual Boy game (which I own). It wouldn't have been too impressive, but I'd still like to see how it had progressed. The Jaguar was designed by people who hadn't made custom silicon before, so it was extremely quirky and there was very little in the way of development tools. I can't imagine it was too far in development, considering how many titles were announced by companies and ultimately stalled and abandoned in midstream.

[@TheAtoll]

Wow, if those Quadra 700 Macintosh are easy to get going again, then maybe there is hope we will learn more about the Waterworld shooter game! Yes, I believe the Jaguar game you are referring to is the canceled Sega Saturn I spotlight at the end of this video. However, I did come across a video that captured a Jaguar demo disc which contained the same trailer video as the 3DO Buffet disc. Unfortunately that video is no longer on KZbin, but I do have it saved on my hard drive.

[@josephmontanaro2350]

I'd love to see people take the shovel knight route and legit make a new waterworld game that runs on the old consoles but built useing modern improved understanding and coding to get the most out of the older systems performance limitations (think of it like how crazy star wars empire at war devs can get with their mods, picture a thrawns revenge/awakening the rebellion type of situation or stalker anomaly style of taking the limited tools they have and going ham with a huge team of rabid fan devs and no limits on ship dates like paied game devs, super awesome passion project kind of thing)

[@RuneChaosMarine]

Can't wait to see what you fish up next.

[@AtomBishup]

Truly the Atolla of Water-Rolla!

[@TheAtoll]

Hey Adam! Thanks for checking it out buddy!

[@ThmiiGii]

I never get tired of this movie Love your channel brother

[@TheAtoll]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@drakemcfee9138]

Actually, long time ago my wife and i with our friends combined a d&d spinoff called spell jammer and a GW warhammer fantasy spinoff tabletop strategy game that focused ship to ship battle with miniatures. It actually worked out really well. Just one suggestion if you do it, dont get involved in a blow up the deathstar campaign. Keep it small and at most atoll to atoll warfare . We considered a smoker ship like the deez a atoll and not nearly as stupid along with other things like there being small amounts of dry land, more "mutants" hi tech underwater cities etc anyway, have fun

[@TheAtoll]

Aw, very cool! I have some friends that are d&d players, maybe I can convince them to help me with a Waterworld themed campaign!

[@josephmontanaro2350]

​​@@TheAtollmight sound odd but I feel like balence wise and gameplay speed useing an RPG like delta green would fit really well, the settings are polar opposites but the combat system I feel would work well and they have everything from basic hand to hand all the way up to modern artillary and airstrikes simulated in their combat system, yall need to set up a second channel for non lore stuff, legit get togather some folks and homebrew some waterworld inspired RPG and no joke yall would both have a blast and proably be makeing tons of views, there's a big RPG community out there, I'd legit love to see you get the people yall played the boardgame with and possibly invite some other big RPG/boardgame buffs, I'd reach out to captain shack, the wilderspace boardgame crew and folks like zoren the bear and warpugs and his buddies (the guys doing the halo themed table top), hell it would be proably impossible to get all the folks mentioned here with you for a one shot, let alone a full multi video campaign but my God what a fever dream of a series that would be to watch

[@Videogamehistorian00]

I really appreciate everything you do for Waterworld lore!

[@TheAtoll]

Thank you! I'll keep making videos if you keep watching them! I still have one more Waterworld videogame video to create, which I hope to get to around the end of the year!

[@ripast2605]

Interesting that Waterworld was also going to be present on 32-bit platforms but they did not make it, since they had one of the settings that used the least polygons, such as the ocean. And they only limited themselves to making on rails? I remember that in Goldeneye, the Frigate stage practically recovered a stable FPS speed when you looked at the sea, and when the polygons appeared it slowed down a bit again. By the way, you made the animations to exemplify the gameplay at minutes 7:20 and 8:44, with what program? P.S: Maybe it's the background music, maybe it's the backgrounds where the water flows, but every time I watch these videos I feel sad because of the nostalgia and the longing to go back to the 90's.

[@TheAtoll]

Yeah, I don't know too much about the 32-bit era. I use Blender for my 3D animation work. Oh man, I don't mean for my videos to make people feel sad, but I know nostalgia hits everyone different.

[@ripast2605]

@@TheAtoll Thanks for your words bro. By the way, when will you release a new video?

[@TheAtoll]

Next Monday hopefully! @@ripast2605

[@brandanlacy860]

Love the videos this is such great content to view. I loved the movie and truly appreciate that you keep the lore and background to the film alive!

[@TheAtoll]

Oh yeah! So happy to hear your enjoying the channel! More videos planned for the future, but they may be a little more spaced apart as we come into the final Waterworld deep dives.

[@josephmontanaro2350]

​@@TheAtollcan't wait for the show, want to see not just new videos but potential revisits and remakes of older ones that factor in new details

[@AyaneOfDeath]

When the development began in 1994 then Pickford must have seen an early Version of Wave Race 64 to be inspired of. Wave Race got released in 1996. So the time before the game still has been in development at Nintendo so if that is Pickford must have seen the Boat Version of Wave Race on Spaceworld in 1995. But that was just video material not playable at that time....

[@TheAtoll]

Hmm, yes this is an excellent point. To give more context, I believe that Pickford made this comment in hindsight year's later. So I think he was saying his ideal Waterworld game would have resembled Wave Race 64, sighting it as the pinnacle of dynamic water based gaming from the mid-90s. Does that make more sense?

[@DJGUNDAM]

it's a good day we get a new video!

[@archive3do769]

I find it interesting they didn't think the 3do could handle open water segments. Games like total eclipse and need for speed prove it would have been possible. Also if the 3do head dev still has his stuff, we have guys who can get his hardware working.

[@TheAtoll]

It would be amazing if more was recovered about this game. Yeah, I am for sure not well versed about the capabilities of the 3DO machine, but from what I have learned, it seemed like it was very difficult condole to create games for.

[@archive3do769]

@@TheAtoll honestly it's not that difficult of a system. It's perceived that way because no one understand it's concept. There is no requirement for a dev to use machine assembly like some other 5th gen systems. We have people regularly post 3D demos for the system, despite our dev community being miniscule in size compared to PS1, Saturn, and even Jaguar. The guy who started a port of tomb raider to the 3do a few years ago, had a fully functional unoptimized 2 level demo in 2 weeks at 10-15fps. He had never even played a 3do before that project. 3do is not as powerful as the PS1 or Saturn, but it is no slouch.

[@josephmontanaro2350]

​@@TheAtollneed to remember this was made very early into the life of the ps1 and 3do, a good example of this is look at early Xbox 360 launch games and then compare them to things like halo reach, your limited not just by early dev tools but lack of expurence on new hardware, give people time to practice and learn on the hardware and software, get a fee updates to the dev kit and you can get situations where early launch games and end of life cycle games legit look like they were made for completely diffrent consoles, halo 1 and halo 2 is another really good example of this, another more extream case are star wars battlefront and empire at war mods now vs the base games and early mods when they first came out (granted both take advantage of the increased power of modern PCs and with empire at war petroglyph are gigachads and over a decade after release are still patching and upgrading the game)

[@josephmontanaro2350]

​@@archive3do769there's a guy who's porting portal 1 or 2 to the N64, give a dev passion, time and memes and anything is possible

[@GHILLIESARCADEANDMORE]

What a shame that didn't happen. Hopefully someday the other game Wheel show up

[@TheAtoll]

Crossing my fingers!

[@Kainae]

Intersting how in depth and admittedly quite innovative these teams got. Really reflects the technical leaps which took place during the production of the movie. I think that even though they didn’t get released, they reflect the way that so much of the value from Waterworld comes from the hard work and clever thinking of so many talented people. : D

[@TheAtoll]

Well put! Haha, as I have begun to say, nothings easy in Waterworld!

[@josephmontanaro2350]

Wait did you make these recrestions? Would you consider taking this and making a fan project remake of what the game would have been? Sounds like a really awesome side project, could even save on graphical performance and budget by makeing it an intentionally retro game graphics wise but with the QOL of modern systems and modern control options (a VR version would be absolutely awesome) Edit: i would honestly love to see a modern waterworld game, the robocop and the terminator games are amazing and id love to see devs with that much passion for the source material build a game set in the waterworld universe, i feel bethesda devs could make a pretty intresting game in the setting but my honest to god dream would be if the folks behind stalker or metro were to build one, those teams are amazing at really building a world that feels lived in and immersive and are really good at captureing the vibe of both dead cities and what its like to rough it in post/near post apocalyptic settlements built from the runes, hell if they could make underwater levels that capture that same uncanny vibe of an unnatural alteration of the familiar it would be unreal, also either an interplay style isometric rpg or a betheada first person game could work really well but they would need to lean into the campy tropes they strive on (which actualy would work ok if done properly)

[@TheAtoll]

Agreed! It would be amazing to see the Waterworld IP rebirthed in video game form. Maybe someday, you never know!

[@0lionheart]

It's weird hearing Interplay mentioned, I think if anyone knows that name it's normally because of Fallout. This would've been pre-Fallout though, that released in '97. Now I'm picturing Interplay doing a Waterworld RPG and man, what I wouldn't give to see that properly realised.

[@TheAtoll]

Now that would have been amazing!

[@chudleycannonfodder]

Here from Macaw45. This video is great!

[@TheAtoll]

Hey glad to hear that Macaw has introduced to the channel!

[@scrappydoo7887]

Hey man wassup 👋 I was missing my doses of water world 👍

[@TheAtoll]

Hey Scrappydoo! Happy to deliver some more Waterworld obscurity to you!

[@zentran2690]

This games seem like it could have been awesome. I am a huge fan of pre-rendered/FMV old-school point and clicks and light gun games.

[@TheAtoll]

Yeah, It's cool how Interplay was really trying to offer something different from the games Ocean Software was making with the Waterworld IP. I think this game would have been really interest take on Waterworld!

[@josephmontanaro2350]

Legit a fan remake or adaptation would be amazing, hell would be better then many of the modern AAA games out there

[@Is_This_Really_Necessary]

Shame. Missed opportunity there. What they could have done is create a game that combined both the aspects of Waveracer and 1st/3rd person shooters. That way players could traverse the ocean on their ships and engage with smokers, drifters, slavers, whalefins, etc before going onto the atolls to interact with atollers and fight attacking smokers, etc.

[@TheAtoll]

Yeah! Not a bad idea. On modern hardware, I could totally see this being a reality.

[@Is_This_Really_Necessary]

@@TheAtoll Though, the amount of work involved would be insane! Unless someone created a mod specifically for this purpose.

[@julien2983]

I can just imagine the reviews if this had released: "7/10 too much water"

[@jeffjansen9]

Great video!!!

[@TheAtoll]

Thanks for the visit!

[@togplayz]

yo you should do a video on the waterworld iceberg that would be awsome (great video BTW)

[@TheAtoll]

Haha, I could do that! A bit cheating though, since I created the Waterworld Iceberg chart I am assuming your referring too!

[@togplayz]

@@TheAtoll yup but still I think I speak for most Waterworld fans, when I say that I would love to see you do a video on the iceberg 😃

[@ToaxnHoldem]

It is nice to put a face to the voice!

[@TheAtoll]

Haha, yep, that's me!

[@dungis3346]

Hey! Do you have a discord you'd be up to sharing publicly by any chance? I understand if not. I really like Waterworld and I'm watching it with my friends over discord soon!

[@TheAtoll]

I do not have a Discord, despite receiving this request from time to time. I did join another KZbinr's discord (RR Slugger) over the summer and learned a bit how it works, but I am still pretty new to Discord and it's etiquette. But something to consider for the future for sure!

[@dungis3346]

@@TheAtoll Oh no, I meant a discord account, to friend I mean. But I understand that I'm a stranger so you might not want to share it publicly.

[@cupguy2555]

It’s a shame this game wasn’t released I would have loved to play this game but let’s hope this game has it’s destiny to be released if not then that’s okay

[@TheAtoll]

Yeah, I am hoping that by creating this video, that perhaps more of the development team would come forward with more information and images of what could have been.

[@kevinsuggs1]

I love what you do!!! If WW ever makes a comeback and they don't give you, at the very least, a small speaking role or something cool like being held hostage, or a cool death scene, etc.... I'm gonna boycott it and start a petition

[@TheAtoll]

Haha! Well, it truly would be an honor to have anything to do with future official Waterworld content! We shall see if anything new every gets made.

[@josephmontanaro2350]

My man needs to be cast as some collector of pre cataclysm history, like a mix of Abraham Washington in FO3 and the baseball guy in fallout 4, complete with the mix of actual historical facts and made up assumptions based on their interpatitions of the pre flood world (think the meme videos burialgoods makes about a civilization in like 2500 trying to make sense of our current culture without any context)

[@hybridtechowns]

Hell yeah

[@dariecosma-rapa9425]

It's a bitt dissapointing that WW a very lore rich universe didn't have sequels and the lore wasn't that much expanded after the 90', but maybe it's better this way, if not maybe WW could've ended up like Avatar or the MCU

[@TheAtoll]

It's very much what, I will now coin, is a "time capsule franchise", as in it is a movie universe that never existed beyond its initial marketing push (besides the stunt show, which has only grown more successful).

[@Gahoole]

Fucking great video as always man

[@TheAtoll]

Thank you! This one was a lot of fun to bring together. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@carletonhandley]

Working on this was a low point in my career I think. Two years of development wasted on a fairly directionless project. And as the solo developer on the PS1 version I was pretty much out of my depth. The artists worked wonders with their stuff though, I wish I had more of it preserved.

[@TheAtoll]

Aw man, Carelton, I hope I did your story justice and gave a bit of renewed interest into the effort you put into this game. I am sure the project being directionless was not at all your fault. From everything we have seen, the game looked amazing and so much more fun to play than any of the other Waterworld games. I think I speak for all Waterworld fans when I say, "wow, a Waterworld FPS game on the PSOne, now that sounds like a good time!"

[@carletonhandley]

@@TheAtoll Sorry I should have mentioned I really enjoyed the video and all the effort you've put into it. And your rendered 3D open water section mock-ups look better than the real game ever did!

[@josephmontanaro2350]

​@@carletonhandleydo you think you could make a reproduction of the game useing modern hardware, software, dev tools and the almost 3 decades of expurence you have acquired since then? Not sure if universal would be ok with it but damn would I love to see this be a thing, hell I'd pay for it

[@carletonhandley]

@@josephmontanaro2350It’d be quite the project to take on! The original game was nowhere near good enough to justify getting to make it now. I’m sure there’s a good game to be made based on a WaterWorld but it wasn’t this one.

[@indianaCurtis]

😮 Your mission: Sink the Deez and Search for Dryland!

[@GUNUFofficial]

Why wasn't this finished but the virtual boy version was?

[@TheAtoll]

Haha, well put.

[@greenkoopa]

KZbin didn't tell me you uploaded 😢

[@TheAtoll]

Bummer, yeah. KZbin has also been unsubscribing people as well. It's becoming an issue.

[@cassidywest5539]

yay! You didn't quit :)

[@TheAtoll]

Nope, never! Haha!

[@belstar1128]

Software creations seemed like a mediocre developer but i know them because a lot of their 8bit and 16 bit games had some of the best chiptunes. because they had tim and geoff follin working there who were very good at making chiptunes. but this was going to be a more modern 32 bit game with cd audio so it wouldn't have benefitted much from their talent so i wish they made the game boy version instead . but you can really tell why these movie tie in games were so bad they really had to rush them out. and the people making the movies tried to get involved but they had no idea what they were doing because they were born before 1970 and we all know what the average boomer is like when it comes to video games. so maybe these games would have been good if they worked on them for a long time with creative freedom but then the movie would have been too old .and the guys in the movie industry viewed it the same as toys and didn't realise what happens when you rush a video game .they just thought as long as it works its fine .some movie directors did understand this like George Lucas who had his own game studio and licensed the star wars and Indiana jones ip to other devs .but made sure to give them freedom and a lot of time to polish the game so most star wars games in the 90s and 2000s were good .

[@TheAtoll]

Yep! 100% agree with your argument here Belstar! Tie-in games have always been in a weird place in the gaming industry, so I guess it was inevitable that they would be come obsolete as the games matured and created it's own powerful IPs.

[@josephmontanaro2350]

​@@TheAtollthe way to go is to have post film games made by mega fans, look at the recent terminator and robocop games as an example then compare them to the buggy broken launch of things like cyberpunk, you give people passionate about the lore the IP and freedom to do their own thing and you get some amazing games

[@ChaunceyGardener]

Weird how all this effort was just thrown away. Some games are reskinned and released under alternative names to recover development costs.

[@TheAtoll]

HHmmm, yes, that makes sense Chauncey. Yeah, I think for the people that worked on this game, the cancelation was a big disappointment. After all, they had worked on it for 2 years, and had nothing to show for the time spent.

[@mattsephton]

02:35 Ste, sort for Steve/Steven/etc, pronounced like Tree

[@TheAtoll]

Really?! Darn, pronoucenames.com has lead me astray once again :(

[@dutchchann9317]

11:42 Deacon looks ugly at this image well it’s just blurry.

[@nostalgiainjection8867]

Wow this was cool

[@TheAtoll]

Thank you Nostalgia Injection for checking out another one of my vids!

[@Blacktaboovideo]

🌊🌎

[@TheAtoll]

Haha, love the little blue emoji guy! So full of dread.

[@captvaghunter]

The nerd class could make the world's most PERFECT water world game with today's tech . GET OFF YOUR PARENTS COUCH AND MAKE THIS YOU LAZY DORKS !😂

[@TheAtoll]

The Nerd Class? Is that another KZbin channel?

[@captvaghunter]

@@TheAtoll it's a growing plague,from a lack of testosterone... You know a support class 😄

[@nicksorenson940]

Let's hope the Sega Saturn game of Waterworld finds its way online one day. I'd be interested in seeing it.

[@TheAtoll]

Yes, crossing my finger! I will certainly create a video on it if there is ever a leak!

[@nicksorenson940]

@@TheAtoll One thing I have always heard about the Saturn is that it's always been considered difficult to develop emulation for online because of how it was made, but I do know that there are some emulators that exist for it.

[@mehere3013]

water world wasnt a successful movie , maby thats how it was canned

[@bellybombs]

NEVER EVER STOP MAKING WW CONTENT

[@TheAtoll]

Haha! I still have more videos in the works, so I'll keep making them if you keep watching them!