A couple of years ago I started buying new & sealed retro games from China/Taiwan and reselling them on Ebay UK. One day I came across a big box PC game and the artwork looked really good and it caught my attention, but I couldnt find any info about the game anywhere, despite being quite well versed in the art of advanced google search syntax.
The game was priced at 4000 NTD (over £100) so I didnt immediately buy it and spent 2 or 3 weeks trying to find out what game it was. After a few weeks of sporadically searching I came across a match and discovered that the game was in fact a planned game for the original Xbox. It was featured at E3 2003 as a big budget title, created in collaboration by an American company called Metro3d and a Taiwanese company called Red-Purple Game Technology.
I found out from Wikipedia that Metro3D was headed by 2 high profile ex-Capcom employees (George Nakayama and Joe Morici) - they released games for N64, GBC, GBA and PS2: …