Actor-Shared Background: Hollywood is a Canadian actor who moved to the United States to get more acting gigs. Trevor Devall is a Canadian voice actor who moved to LA to get more roles, though unlike Hollywood, does not hide his Canadian heritage.
The Cast Showoff: Robbie Daymond (Gaunt) and Charlet Chung (AISHA) get multiple musical numbers get to show off their talents,even though Daymond is deliberately trying to be as annoying as possible. In the credits version of "I am the World", Arif Kinchen (Kingpin) gets to rap, while T.C. Carson (Hardtack) gets to sing and both are pretty good as well.
Throw It In!: Hollywood was originally supposed to be from LA, until the one of the writers found out that Trevor Devall was from Canada. Volition then made his actually being Canadian his "dark secret," claiming to be from LA just to get more jobs.
Troubled Production: A video called "The SHOCKING truth behind Agents of Mayhem" by Flippy details several problems that occurred during development. Over the course of the game's development, Volition was lying to Deep Silver about features in the game, claiming they were finished when they really weren't. When Deep Silver found out, they were pissed and demanded Volition to finish the game as soon as possible, along with requesting additional features that had to be made in a short timespan. Deep Silver would also compare their work to games such as Grand Theft Auto V and Forza, despite them not trying to make a game like that. All of this, along with alleged cases of workplace bullying, resulted in a hectic development cycle and one of the factors for the game's failure.
Viral Marketing: Volition uploaded a cutscene of Hardtack and Fortune watching one of Hollywood's old porn vids to a pornsite.note While the video is relatively safe for work, the pornsite is not, so here's a YT link instead https://youtu.be/jDXl4-XUYqQ
Early concept art shows that Oni was going to be a woman.
Some of the agents had different code names in development: Hollywood was "Movie Star", Braddock was "Warchild", and Scheherezade was "Sandstorm".
At a number of potential Agents were cut from the roster.
The game was at one point meant to be a PlayStation exclusive, which is how Johnny Gat was added to the game by Sony's demand.
Modding tools were planned to be released. Said tools were to be very detailed and expansive, with mission creators, map editors, and even access to Stilwater and Steelport.
You Sound Familiar: Hardtack is voiced by T.C. Carson, who had also voiced Anthony Green in SR1 and SR4.
" by Flippy details several problems that occurred during development. Over the course of the game's development, Volition was lying to Deep Silver about features in the game, claiming they were finished when they really weren't. When Deep Silver found out, they were pissed and demanded Volition to finish the game as soon as possible, along with requesting additional features that had to be made in a short timespan. Deep Silver would also compare their work to games such as Grand Theft Auto V and Forza, despite them not trying to make a game like that. All of this, along with alleged cases of workplace bullying, resulted in a hectic development cycle and one of the factors for the game's failure.