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Sammy vs. Capcom; this game was to be the next successor in Capcom’s popular “Versus” series, following in the footsteps of X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, as well as Marvel vs. Capcom and its sequel, which is considered one of the best games in the series.
Originally announced back in 2003 at the JAMMA arcade show in Tokyo, the game was being developed so it could run on the Sammy-produced Atomiswave arcade board; the only other announcement was that it would be a fighting game akin to its predecessors. No other information was revealed about the game, including what systems it would be released on, or what characters would make an appearance/cameo.
By going back and looking at what properties were already out for each company and basing on when it would have been completed, the roster would have most likely contained characters from the Guilty Gear series, Spy Fiction, and Seven Samurai 20XX (the Sammy side of the roster), as well as people from Street Fighter and Darkstalkers, and the Resident Evil, Mega Man, and Maximo series to boot, with other lesser-know characters being included to flesh out the remainder of the roster.
Going in accordance with the last game, it would have contained a full player list of somewhere between 50-60 characters, with stages from each game represented and original stages made specifically for the game itself. It was never formally announced that this game was officially canceled in favor of other projects that were being developed at the time, or if it was placed on hold for an undetermined period of time.
One small side effect that seems to have carried over from this is the visuals were to have the same hi-res look reminiscent of the GG games, meaning the Capcom fighters would all have been rendered in the same sharp, crisp style that we are seeing in the soon playable Super Street Fighter II Turbo: HD Remix; this is the only thing that has carried over from the idea for that game, even though there is no real connection between both games.
Unfortunately, since no actual information has been released other than the original announcement, it is sufficed to say that this game will never come to fruition, or that it never had a chance.
