Little Trouble in the Big City

Little Trouble in the Big City is a cancelled PS2, GameCube, and PC game by The Collective, Inc. It was to be a stealth puzzle game aimed at kids.

Plot
You play as Oscar Renquist, a San Francisco Police Department detective. You are on the trail of stolen lab equipment. The suspect is a mad scientist.

When you corner the mad scientist, he knocks you out cold and shrinks you to the size of a rat. You wake up inside a cage with two other failed experiments. One is a super smart rat, and the other is a rat-octopus hybrid.

Your quest is to escape the lab and find the Evil Scientist. You will travel to a back alley, a motel, a train station, the docks, and finally a warehouse.

Gameplay
Along the way you'll encounter many enemies to fight. These range from rats, roaches, cats, dog, crabs, seagulls, and the Mad Scientist himself.

The combat would be turn-based like in an RPG. You would gain experience points depending on their contribution to the battle. Level 10 is max. Should you die you return to the last checkpoint. Die three times and it is game over.

Your characters would develop as they level up. Oscar would develop an arsenal of weapons. Grey will develop lots of beneficial potions. Rocto will be more proficient with his tentacles, learning new attacks.

Cancellation
Little Trouble in the Big City was cancelled due to The Collective merged with Backbone Entertainment. This formed Foundation 9 Entertainment. This shakeup likely killed off this idea in its conceptual stage.