Jason Bourne as Protagonist of Cancelled GTA-like Game; Watch Gameplay

The Mafia Game Videos channel on YouTube has posted video footage of Treadstone, a TPP action game canceled in 2008. Treadstone is based on the Jason Bourne series of novels by Robert Ludlum.

Treadstone Gameplay

The video presents the history of this project and includes an extensive piece of gameplay from an early version.

1. Game was to offer an open world story campaign and multiplayer mode.
2. The player could use vehicles and a cover system. The gameplay also shows stealth elements such as silent elimination of targets, planting bombs and avoiding detection.
3. The player character looks very agile - he can smoothly overcome obstacles, climb, slide into cover, jump through windows or break down doors.
4. It would be possible to use enemies as living shields or to cushion falls from great heights.
5. The project was created by Radical Entertainment in 2007-2008 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
6. Treadstone was canceled when the game's publisher, Vivendi Games, merged with Activision, thus creating Activision Blizzard. The company already held the James Bond license, so Bourne was deemed unnecessary.

The video looks impressive, especially when you consider that the project was abandoned in 2008. The whole thing looks like a mix of Grand Theft Auto IV and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction and it's a shame that the game never saw the light of day.

The license was later taken over by Electronic Arts, but the resulting project developed by Starbreeze Studios was not finished either.

Gameplay from Scarface 2

Vivendi Games' merger with Activision resulted in the cancelation of many projects in order to cut costs. Apart from Treadstone a new Spider-Man game was abandoned as well as Scarface Empire, which is a continuation of Scarface: The World is Yours.

It's worth mentioning that the day before yesterday Mafia Game Videos channel published the second part of the video with fragments of gameplay from Scarface Empire.

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