Square Enix Cancels Cartoon Shooter Gun Loco

Square Enix has resigned its cartoony shooter game Gun Loco to the dustbin of history, the publisher said Friday.


The “sprint action shooter” with offbeat characters including a musclebound shirtless dude in a rabbit mask was to be released on Xbox 360 this year. Wired.com played Gun Loco at Tokyo Game Show and found it to be an intriguing concept that needed further design polish.

The game was to be a collaboration between the Japanese publisher and a Hong Kong toymaker called Brothersfree. The characters in the game were all originally sculpted as articulated action figures.

And that’s where they will stay, apparently.