killing the rumored $50 million project, we’ll never know.
This Is Vegas would probably have been the most authentic recreation of the Vegas casino floor, but thanks to Midway going kaput and Warner Bros. Maybe it’s my ADHD or my simple mind that is easily overcome with joy whenever I see bright, flashing lights and hear the buzzes and whirls of the slot machines, but there’s something pleasing about making my way through the sea of hover rounds and cocktail girls as I wander a sea of penny slots. I’m not big on gambling and I fucking hate cigarette smoke, but I love me some casinos. I think about the game whenever I am in Las Vegas which is where I am as of the time of publication. This Is Vegas would be an open-world title set in Sin City where gaming’s most generic-ass looking mother fucker could do all the things fans of open-world games love to do: fight, gamble, race, and dance like nobody is watching. A little over a decade ago, Midway – a company spiraling towards bankruptcy – dropped a trailer for what could have been, should have been its saving grace.
