Square Enix has released two extremely thick books including everything relating to Final Fantasy XIII inside them. Scans from the Scenario and Battle Ultimania are beginning to appear on the internet and with them some very interesting artwork and test footage of the game from before E3 2006 where they showed the PS3 version of the game after the PS2 version was scrapped

The screenshots are actually from the Playstation 2 version of the game and it looks like they went in two completely different artistic directions before both of them were scrapped. The characters used in the screenshots are Yuna and Rikku heavily stylized and wearing completely different outfits. You can also see how the battle UI resembles what was used in the final game but with additions such as MP.

haha no pics

Those are some really dope screens

lol link to the actual website, please?

link please, i want to see this.

Wow.. cell shaded.. looks... strange..

http://finalfantasy-xiii.net/2010/01/30/this-is-what-final-fantasy-xiii-looked-like-on-ps2.html

Wait. Wasn't this suppose to be what FFXIII would be like on PS2? Then why are Yuna and Rikku in the game? O.O

Source btw:

http://bbs.ffsky.com/disp.aspx?ID=1704938&bid=54

thanks strife...

Wth is this though? FFXIII almost became FFX/XII remixed... ewww.... that would have been far worse, im actually glad they went the way of current XIII now, Van... is with Yuna... wtf...

Nice find, its a good example of what "could" have been, thank goodness that wasn't the case.

and lol @ those pics, "link to the article not the images please, or the game will never come out"

it could be that they wanted to repeat the characters eventually but changed them when the new gen arrived

It doesn't look final fantasy at all...