But eventually the video producers and community manager convinced the higher-ups to unveil the unfinished handheld title. They want to show final screenshots,' Watson said. They want to show like final concept art. 'It was honestly kind of shocking that this was so far along,' Stinson said.

That's not to say that Saints Row: Undercover wasn't pretty far into development before the project was canned. And both old THQ and Volition looked at the project and after multiple reviews felt that it really wasn't living up to what a Saints Row game could and should be.' 'And Volition is very involved with the review process. 'Volition isn't a handheld developer, so when projects like this come up we get an outside studio to work on it,' Watson explained. 'It was supposed to be a Saints Row 2 port directly to the PSP and then they realised 'uh, we can't actually do this.' So then they started making its own game,' Mejia explained.Īn unnamed outside studio was hired for the project. But Stinson and other colleagues, like video producer Alexander Mejia and community manager Mike Watson, pushed for the public to know about it. Most people he spoke with had no idea it existed, while senior staff felt like it would be best not revealed as it's an unfinished game from seven years ago on now archaic hardware.

As explained in the video below, Volition associate video editor Josh Stinson simply happened upon the game laying in a wayward PSP dev kit tucked away in a storage room.Įnthused by the discovery, Stinson started asking around.

A cancelled Saints Row PSP game has been revealed.ĭubbed Saints Row: Undercover, the canned project was shuttered in 2009 when developer Volition and then-publisher THQ decided it wasn't up to scratch with the series' standards.Īmusingly, most folks at Volition these days didn't even know it existed.

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