Prior to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, developer Red Fly was working on a Star Wars game starring Darth Maul, the Sith Lord from Episode I: The Phantom Menace , and eventual star of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

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Red Fly's PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U game would have been a stealth action game inspired by Batman: Arkham Asylum, Game Informer revealed in its May 2014 issue. Maul was, as an anonymous developer described it, "insanely powerful and deadly, but one or two hits will take you out."Although the developer aimed to create a Darth Maul origin story in 2010, LucasArts' goal was to link the game, codenamed Damage, to an upcoming season of The Clone Wars, in which reintroduced the supposedly dead Maul via his brother, Savage Opress.George Lucas himself shifted the direction of Damage drastically, with the story involving Darth Krayt and Darth Talon, known within Star Wars' Dark Horse Comics canon.This the development team confused about its future, according to Game Informer sources. Despite this, LucasArts allegedly considered purchasing Red Fly. When the buyout didn't happen, LucasArts canceled Damage in 2011, forcing the studio to let go of 70 employees.A Red Fly employee's demo reel , discovered by Superannuation , features a look at what might have been with the Star Wars: The Clone Wars Darth Maul game.

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