[quote name='Ryuukishi']You'd think that after Final Fantasy XIII only came together into a finished game by the skin of its teeth, Square-Enix would realize that spending the first 4 years of development on the FMV cutscenes and then scrambling to build gameplay around it at the last minute isn't the best idea.
Meh. I was never too interested in Versus anyway, the urban/mafia setting didn't really appeal to me. Bring on XIII-3 and XV. I just wonder how much of the work on Versus will be able to be repurposed into other projects (again, assuming there actually was any work done on it apart from the cutscenes).[/QUOTE]
There was gameplay, and quite a bit too, see here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ7MwTXYLpg
There is another leaked footage trailer that actually has some "brighter" environments and looked a lot nicer. (actually the non-city environments looked pretty good in the first video too)
(sorry can't put 2 videos in one post, they break the thread)
youtube.com /watch?v=W19QjgHHads
Still say the game looked like a higher res version of Crisis Core / Type 0
[quote name='Kazaganthi']I am sick of waiting. I want Kingdom Hearts 3 more though. This dev team has too much to handle.
Rumor that Versus XIII was canceled and will be made into FFXV instead
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/rumor-final-fantasy-versus-xiii-has-been-cancelled/[/QUOTE]
The Versus devs are the same team so I won't hold your breath for the new KH's game anytime soon.
Versus looked a hell of a lot like Crisis Core, just by watching the gameplay video, and it wouldn't shock me to see the name change, frankly it's a rebranding more than a cancellation.
They waste too much time on things like the FF7 tech demo and the agni's philosophy real time demo and not on getting product out, seems to me that they like making pretty things that aren't playable (someone that was too much into the european demo scene of the late 90's is working for Square now)