BioWare - Lost Game: Five Fingers of Death

This one is just for interest because it's now lost in time - or perhaps the idea became Jade Empire.  IGN has a snippet from the DICE summit where Biodoc Ray Muzyka revealed they once prototyped a kung-fu game using the Infinity Engine, called Five Fingers of Death:

Speaking at DICE last night, BioWare's Dr. Ray Muzyka revealed that many, many years ago, he created Five Fingers of Death, an adventure that combined the successful Baldur's Gate formula with a love for kung fu movies. In fact, those movies were going to play a pivotal part in Five Fingers, as cutscenes to punctuate the action and advance what sounded like a rather unserious narrative. Apparently, Muzyka himself edited old footage in Premiere and provided a good number of the voice overs.

Sounds crazy, right? Too bad Bioware's then-publisher didn't quite see it that way.

"We took it out to Interplay and they laughed us out of the building," said Muzyka.