Fun Facts! Just for giggles, here are some 100% name changes that games have gone through before they were released.
- Destroy All Humans was originally called Grand Theft Human. One can assume it was changed both for legal reasons and the fact that GTH isn’t a very good name.
- Red Steel began its life as Katana. It was later changed to Katana and the 9mm, then changed again right before it was unveiled to the public.
- Kane and Lynch almost came to market under the hilariously terrible name Bad Bad Men.
- Sea Dogs 2 was famously reworked into the first Pirates of the Carribean game. Not surprisingly, it captured very little of the feel of the first movie.
- Sega tested several different names for Condemned: Criminal Origins (which I unfortunately can’t remember). Both Sega and developer Monolith wanted to call it simply Condemned, but there was a problem with the copyright for that name in Europe. The subhead was added to circumvent that issue.
- As most gamers know, the Wii was originally codenamed the Revolution. What they may not know is that a big reason why the console didn’t stick with that name was that Japanese consumers would have trouble pronouncing “Revolution.” Seriously.
