Vectorman 3

cancelled video game

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Series: Vectorman

About

Vectorman 3 is a cancelled third entry in Sega's Vectorman series of video games. At least three separate attempts have been made public: Vectorman 3/Vectorman Ultra for the Saturn, Vectorman Neo for the Dreamcast, and simply Vectorman, as a series reboot for the PlayStation 2. All three were rejected and cancelled by Sega, and no third entry has been released to date.

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Legacy

None of the proposed Vectorman sequels ever released, and to date, no further attempts at a third Vectorman titles have been released or publicly pitched. The game's cancellations deeply damaged the respective development teams in the process. Both BlueSky Software and VBlank went out of business shortly following their rejected proposals for Sega platforms. Pseudo Interactive was crippled by its cancellation, as they were a small company focusing the entirety of their operations on the Vectorman project.

The company narrowly avoided bankruptcy by signing a contract to work on the Microsoft XNA development tools, something that was aided in their development of Vectorman's advanced physics system, though they later went out of business in 2008. In 2023, a leak of internal Sega documents from 1997 showed a release schedule with a listing for a Vectorman 3 being scheduled for release for the Genesis and Game Gear in 1998; nothing else is known about this potential version of the game.