The Y-Project

The Y-Project is a cancelled Xbox and PC game by Westka. It was an experimental sci-fi first-person shooter.

Plot
The game is set 200 years in the future. 70 years prior, humans land on a planet. A mutant insect was accidentally created in a lab. It escape and create more huge hostile bugs. There are two politically-opposed factions who both want to save the glass-dome city.

Gameplay
You could swap factions at will and gain access to different weapons and abilities. Different factions give different quests and sub-quests. There are two ways to solve the game's puzzles: military or scientific.

Gameplay would take place inside a giant monolithic city inside the glass dome. It was to be open world with unique architecture.

Development
Announced in late 2001, The Y-Project was to be built on the Unreal engine.

Cancellation
The Y-Project was cancelled when Westka closed its doors on October 1st 2002. There was rumblings of a resurrection, with word that ex-employees were still working on it. That didn't pan out and the game was well and truly dead.

The ex-employees joined Joylabs and worked on Das Reich 2005.