Predator: Concrete Jungle

Predator: Concrete Jungle
Developer: Eurocom Publisher: Vivendi Universal Games Platforms: PlayStation 2, Xbox Released in US: April 27, 2006 Released in EU: April 15, 2005 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

To do: Both releases have a few test levels included.

Predator: Concrete Jungle is an interesting case of a game that shifted from being an ambitious open-world title to more of a linear experience mid-development. The results are a bit clunky to say the least.

Unused Graphics

Loading Background

A background that was used for the loading screen at one point in development.

Rating Pending

An ESRB Rating Pending logo.

Unused Text

Copyright String

Present at 0x3874A8 in the Xbox version's executable.

c 2004 Vivendi Universal Games

This string is used in an anti-piracy check done at startup, in which it is hashed and compared to a known good hash value. If the resulting hash of the string differs, a flag at 0x00482714 is set to indicate a tampered/pirated copy.

This anti-piracy check and its effects were seemingly never completed, as only the player class' update function reads this flag. When it is set, the update function decrements a timer, but nothing happens when the timer elapses.