With the start of the new millennium, Rockstar was set to release a wrestling game around the year 2000 (that's back in time for the planned release). The wrestling game in question would be ECW rather than the WWE wrestling games that were popular at the time.

Hard4Games shared this information with us on YouTube recently, where they posted a video showing off a pre-alpha prototype of ECW Hardcore Revolution’s Project Rockstar. The video also features an interview with wrestler Tommy Dreamer, one of ECW’s shining stars.

At the time of the game's development, ECW wrestling was at the height of its popularity at the turn of the new millennium, and wrestler Tommy Dreamer revealed that before he struck a deal with Acclaim in 1999 to create an ECW game, there was already a deal in place with Rockstar to create another game with it.

It was a big time in the wrestling industry, video games were key to their success as a wrestling company and we had a lot of companies bidding on this game. I'll tell you an interesting fact that I've mentioned but I don't know if a lot of people noticed. There was a fan that worked for this company and he wanted ECW to be a box office success.

One of the most important people on the Rockstar production team at the time was Kevin Gill, who told his story of how the project ultimately fell apart. The reason, of course, was that he was unsure of the game's long-term lifespan.

While Dreamer and Kevin's stories confirm that Rockstar was on the verge of making an ECW wrestling game, they provide reasons why they are far from certain. Wrestler Dreamer claims that Rockstar is waiting to see how successful GTA is, and Kevin Gill claims he is unsure about ECW's longevity.

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