Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Lockdown - Lost Level?

Incidentally, the maker of the game, playerthree, has a page on Lockdown which contains several in-game images. Those images make no sense given the finished game. Was there a special multi-player Level 5?











Their website states:
Tied in with daily TV broadcasts on the Cartoon Network, players were fed a storyline on the TV then directed to the Toonami web site to help out - saving the Absolution spaceship from destruction.

On registering, players were allocated a team to play for, then competed and scored points to boost their team's performance. Daily feedback was given on the teams' overall scores, and new levels unveiled to the masses to continue the saga.

Free movement, parallax scrolling, atmospheric audio and a wide choice of weapons gave this game wide appeal to the Cartoon Network viewers, and generated a great deal of web traffic from the TV audience.
Which doesn't tell us anything. The promos at Toonami Digital Arsenal clearly show the normal Lockdown RPG-game and not playerthree's odd version. If there was a Level 5, it was removed after the Lockdown Total Immersion Event ended.

I played Lockdown when it originally premiered in 2001, but I may have missed one day of play. I can't be sure this level even existed. I assume it was a multiplayer level as that would be the only reason to remove it.

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