Fear & Respect was an "innovative action adventure game" that was to be a collaboration between Boyz N The Hood director John Singleton and rapper Snoop Dogg. In short, it was Midway's Grand Theft Auto. The game has since been canned.

Why?

"Because we have enough data-points to know the hood thing is basically dead," says Midway's chief marketing officer Steve Allison. "It would be dead before it came out," he continues. "And you don't want to come out on a dead vibe."

Ironic, because bother Snoop and Singleton have made a career off of that "dead vibe." Midway continues to work with Snoop Dogg and the filmmaker on a new game that isn't in the "hood" genre, but most likely something else entirely. Two words: rainbows and unicorns. Brian Ashcraft

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