5 Games You'll Never Be Able To Play

Batman games are all top-notch titles the past few years thanks to the Arkham series of titles. But before those days the Dark Knight had it pretty bad in the world of video games. His 2D games were mostly all bad and his 3D adventures are considered some of the work games of all time.

Gotham By Gaslight was an interesting take on the character, coming from a graphic novel that caught fire, even getting its own animated film. So, the idea of a steampunk Batman was perfect, especially since everyone's weird uncle was into sterampunk around the time.

The idea of bands getting video games isn't new, dating all the way back to to the Atari 2600 with Journey Escape. There was also KISS getting a couple of video games as well, but that's probably because they'd put their name on anything they think could sell.

Metallica: The Game would have been a racing game, which is interesting enough, I suppose. We don't have much information on the game outside of the trailer with a some Mad Max looking hot rod revving its engines. Chances are it would have been a Twisted Metal.

The studio behind the project only ever managed to ship The Thing and a Lord of the Rings video game with all their other tie-in properties, including Metallica: The Game, being dropped for whatever reason.

Mega Man Universe is a product of bad timing. The game allowed you to create your own Mega Man levels based on the classic series and let you run through them using various Capcom throughout history. It's essentially Super Mario Maker, only with Mega Man stuff.

The game was canceled and Capcom issued an apology to fans, but if it did come to market I feel it would have done gangbusters as a digital only title. After seeing the success of Super Mario Maker, I bet Capcom was kicking themselves, if only a little.

In a lot of ways you might say that Nintendo took a few notes themselves from Mega Man Universe as rom hacks of Mega Man games are just as common as ones for Super Mario Bros.

Dirty Harry is fantastic film of machismo fetishism that helped launch an entire generation of films about dudes with guns taking the law into their own hands, or at the very least, pushing it right to the edge. A video game was made back on the NES, which is mind-boggling as everyone with a Nintendo wasn't even old enough to see the film.

In the days of the Xbox 360 and PS3, a Dirty Harry game made a lot more sense. The rise of open-world games allowed for WB to pluck its dirt cop from the screen and dump him into a huge game that probably would have sold buckets.

What sucks is that the game was never actually a game. It didn't even get to a prototype phase as far as we could tell. WB simply had their animation team render a crude (and now very creepy) looking trailer to build hype.

StarCraft: Ghost would have been something new for Blizzard, or at very least a return to their roots with a console release. Sure, Diablo hit the PlayStation, but before their string of PC classic they had some fun releasing games on home consoles.

But then the Warcraft adventure game happened and they began canceling games left and right. They said it was because games like Ghost, while cool, didn't quite live up to their standards of quality, something I wish they would think about again after the mess that was Diablo 3 and whatever Diablo Mobile is going to be.

The game looked fantastic in screens and in action, so it's a shame that it never came out. Fans are still clamoring for it even in 2019. Nova would go one to feature heavily in StarCraft 2, but I'm still waiting for her solo adventure to see the light of day.