Cancelled Project - Mega Man & Capcom Golf (2018)

Before its closure in 2018, Capcom Vancouver was home to several projects that never saw the light of day. In the years following the release of Dead Rising 4, the studio explored a number of concepts in pre-production, including an unusual and previously undocumented title: a golf game featuring the Blue Bomber.

(Concept art by Julianna Michek)

Early in development, the project was framed as a Mega Man–centric golf game, tentatively titled Mega Man & Capcom Golf, but that direction did not last long. A source familiar with the project says the concept evolved into a broader Capcom crossover, moving away from Mega Man as the central figure while still keeping him prominently featured. From that point on, the project was known as Capcom Golf.

The central gimmick of Capcom Golf was that characters played using their signature weapons and abilities rather than traditional clubs. Mega Man used his Mega Buster, Frank West swung a spiked bat, and other Capcom characters were explored in similarly playful ways. How Phoenix Wright would have approached the sport remains an unsolved case.

“The courses were at first based on different Mega Man environments, like a factory, and then some other places from Dead Rising, Devil May Cry, and so on,” the source said. “It was a 2D perspective, aiming for home consoles, but it could have easily scaled to mobile.”

Like many proposed projects from Capcom Vancouver, Capcom Golf now exists only in fragments.  The project never advanced into full production, ultimately becoming another casualty of the studio’s closure. What can be shared today is limited to a small selection of concept art by Julianna Michek, a freelance artist commissioned to work on the title (more of her work can be found here).