Survivor was a disaster survival

Survival

Survival is the struggle to remain alive and living. The term may refer to:- Companies and organisations :* Survival International, a non-governmental human rights organization working for tribal peoples- Literature :...

 game based on real-life disasters, both natural

Natural disaster

A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard . It leads to financial, environmental or human losses...

 and manmade, from the 20th and 21st century. Developed by Replay Studios for the Xbox 360

Xbox 360

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 and Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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, it would have been released sometime in 2009, but has been officially cancelled.

Gameplay

Little was revealed about the gameplay, but it was said to revolve around the player surviving historical disasters and their aftermath.

Disasters

Disasters that had been confirmed to be in the game were:

• 1912: Sinking of the RMS Titanic
• 1945: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
  Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.For six months...
  
  
• 1992 Hurricane Andrew
  Hurricane Andrew
  Hurricane Andrew was the third Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States, after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969. Andrew was the first named storm and only major hurricane of the otherwise inactive 1992 Atlantic hurricane season...
  
  
• 2001: Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11, 2001 attacks
  Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11, 2001 attacks
  The rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks comprised the local, state and federal agency reaction to the September 11 attacks. The unprecedented events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers...
  
  

History

The game was first announced in 2004, to be released on Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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, Xbox

Xbox

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, PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

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 and GameCube

Nintendo GameCube

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. After a silence of almost 3 years, developer Replay Studios announced that it was being continued in 2007 for the next-gen consoles. The release date was set for December 31, 2008 but was eventually pushed back to 2009. It was then announced by Replay Studios that the game as no longer in production

Product (business)

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and was removed from the official website and officially cancelled.

External links

• Official website
• Survivor at Gamer.nl (Dutch)