It was back in what I call the early "128-bits era".
Marvel had just released a pretty successful 3D Spider-man game (on the PSX, N64, PC and Dreamcast). With the success of its early 90s cartoons still behind them, expanding their catalog to others characters was a no-brainer.
Making video games based on comic book proprieties was an obvious step, from a marketing point of view. But besides a little Silver Surfer on the NES a decade earlier, most of those adaptations were always based on the big mainstream popular names. Batman, Superman, Spider-man? Sure.
Daredevil? Now that would have been quite something!
The task to realize the impossible was let upon developer 5000ft under Encore's publishing.
Not much was known about this game, apart the fact that it seems it would have been pretty similar to that Spider-man game mentioned above. (using Tony Hawk ProSkater's engine as well? I doubt it since it was an entirely different crew making and editing the game)
I can imagine it would have used a little HUB/open world. The whole Hell's kitchen to patrol over in a non-linear way. Maybe DD would have had to protect his neighborhood, look out for criminals/stop criminal sprees.
I can imagine they would have put an alert system in the form of a progression bar on the HUD menu.
Here's a screen at the game:
From the looks of it, it probably started production in the late 90s/early 2000s. Probably on the PS1/PC/N64 as well. It might have been published on the DC as well I can guess.
But the game was taking a lot of time, too much time for this kinda project.
Then at E3 2002, some in-game videos surfaced showing the project was still alive:
Love that "blind vision" mode.
Slated now for a Q4 2004 release.
The game was now on the then-next gen systems, meaning the PS2 and Xbox.
Sure, it wasn't the prettiest game around, was showing a bit of his old age, looking more like the 1999 Spider-man game with some acrobatic moves, than, say, Ubisoft's Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.
Here's a look at this game's boxarts:
Sadly, by then the an actual adaptation of Daredevil came out, the 2003 Mark Steven Johnson-directed Ben Affleck!Daredevil movie.
Long story short, they lost the license and all we got instead was this Game Boy Advance game:
Which was...huh...nice. But so far from what we almost had.
Funny story though, some website and stores still list that DD game like had it been released.
Thus ends another random history of something that might had been.
