Screenshots from Croc 2?!

Thanks for the answer. Very sadly, than all of this don`t been in final version. I think, the race on a rafts is more better, that race on boats, because gobbos has too modern convenience, like cars, planes, etc. But very similar, than all in Croc happened somwhere in 1200 - 1600 years, or earlier, and this is not bring feeling of the middle ages atmosphere...

Here's two more that I found:
i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/Sonicroc/Croc/crocm1.jpg
i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/Sonicroc/Croc/crocm2.jpg

Agreed. But only one little thing... In instruction booklet of first Croc wroten: "Who were the Gobbos? Examine ANCIENT paintings from the TIME of their civilisation..." Who knows, what happened with gobbos in Croc 2...

Sheesh, I had no idea they cut this much content from the final release. There's no excuse for dumping that water stage. Well, besides time constraints and stuff, but that's pretty inexcusable anyway.

I actually have this noted down in the main site's Random Facts section, but I'll quote it for convenience - it saves a long explanation.

I learned this a long time ago. The folks at Argonaut didn't know why this was (hence the last bit of the above note), for what it's worth. It seems that it just is.


As far as updating the site goes, as far as I'm aware, the only two pieces of Croc-related news between the last site update and now have been the announcement of Croc Mobile 2, and, more recently, Eidos purchasing Morpheme Mobile.

As has probably become obvious by now, unfortunately, I don't really have the time to work on the site anymore, so when I do have the chance to sort it out, what I'll be doing is rejigging things so that it's just a site with some information and trivia, really. As an aside, I don't deal with screenshots of things which weren't used, so I'm afraid I won't be including such things whenever I get the time to do the "final" update.

How come? Almost all video games go through changes in development. It's not a big deal at all, nor is it particularly interesting.


It's not unusual at all, despite what some websites out there may claim. It happens with almost all games, and the reasons for it are almost always the same: Content that is removed is either unworkable, uninteresting, wasn't feasible to include before a tight deadline, or the underlying concepts and/or material just plain sucked. Sometimes it is a combination of some or all of these things. There really is no more to it than that.


There were numerous Croc 2 prototypes during each stage of development. Most of the images out there originate from several different stages of the game's development. As I understand it, each was almost certainly destroyed once it had served its purpose, OR they wrote the current build onto a CD-RW once ready for testing (I can't quite recall which it was at this hour, but either way I'm quite sure that none survive).

For what it's worth, they wouldn't leave the discs alone in the room with myself or the other visitors when I went to Argonaut's headquarters, for security reasons.

The then-current PSX version (the one which was sent to Sony for approval the following day) which I played when I was there was near-identical to the one which was released at retail, save for a couple of bugs and a handful of typographical errors.

There is nothing particularly awesome about buggy unfinished code. It always pales in comparison to the real and finished thing, in the end.


I mean you no offence whatsoever, but in my humble opinion it could very easily be perceived as somewhat disrespectful to claim that the game must have been "one hell of a hack job" and act as though you have any idea what went into its production, when you almost certainly were not there and therefore did not see how things went, or actually take the time to talk about the production process with the folks who made it while they were still doing so, or witness the team hard at work on various portions of the game.

I saw in person how the team worked their behinds off on the game - there was nothing hack-jobbish about it, let me tell you.

Indeed, stuff was removed due to time-constraints, and that's what happens with almost all video games. However, as I came to understand it, the team got just about everything in there that they wanted to and were feasibly able to include given their deadlines (they themselves noted that they probably could have made several other games out of the stuff they wrote down which was not used - I saw the book, it was enormous). The ending, to that end, was not abrupt at all - it was seemingly as they wanted it to be.