Beyond Good & Evil HD on PSN in May

By Fred Dutton Published 17 March, 2011

Buy it at launch, get free stuff.

The HD revamp of Ubisoft's 2003 adventure classic Beyond Good & Evil will be available on PlayStation Network in May in the US, the publisher has announced.

The game's associate producer Eric Damian-Vernet wouldn't give the US PlayStation Blog a more precise date, or reveal whether it will arrive in Europe at the same time, but did reveal a few purchase incentives.

PlayStation Network members who pick up the game during its first two weeks on release will receive two free avatars – one of heroine Jade and one of sidekick Pey'j.

The game launched on Xbox Live Arcade earlier this month, picking up an impressive 9/10 from Eurogamer's Dan Whitehead.

"If, like me, you let this one pass you by, there's no excuse not to rectify that mistake now," he wrote.

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Comments (29) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • GamesConnoisseur #1 1 year ago

    Enjoying the game on X360 but argh, camera control clearly moved on a lot since then, so a big readjustment as can be awkward in middle of heavy combat and in small spaces.

  • MerricK #2 1 year ago

    at the end of the article about how Beyond good and evil is going to be released in MAY it says its out for xbox 360 & PS3.....


    oh dear EG surely a FAUX PAS!
    Edited by MerricK at 17/03/11 @ 15:47

  • tomjoadsghost #3 1 year ago

    I bought it at launch on the Ps2, and then again on the xbox launch 6 months later (because i hit a bug which made the ps2 version unfinishable and couldnt face starting over in case i hit the bug again)

    I just hope my reluctance to buy the remake isnt going to affect BG&E2.

  • randompanda #4 1 year ago

    Words fail me.

    You penalise Playstation users with this shoddy launch date and hope people will be happy with a couple of avatars?

    I'm trying to think of a more eloquent way of telling them to get bent.

  • captain_Carl #5 1 year ago

    2 avatars for getting it 3 months late?

    K then...

  • speedjack #6 1 year ago

    Awesome game...but for god sake someone fix the invert camera.

  • supermaniacs #7 1 year ago

    "Beyond Good & Evil HD is out now on PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Got a news tip? Email news@eurogamer.net. "

    I have a news tip for you!!
    Edited by supermaniacs at 17/03/11 @ 15:50

  • evild_edd #8 1 year ago

    @beemoh: This isn't baiting here, but I don't honestly understand how a gamer can survive just with a Wii. That's not to say the Wii doesn't have things worth playing but.......you're just missing so much. 360 + Wii. Yup. PS3 + Wii. Yup. 360 or PS3 on their own....fine. Wii on it's own.....hmmmm.

    Maybe it's just me.

    (please, this is not baiting, just saying my opinion)

  • Cappy #9 1 year ago

    I'll pass.

    Buying now encourages the publisher to take incentives to delay the PS3 release next time also.

  • Whitster #10 1 year ago

    @Cappy

    No offense but I don't think the £6 lost from you not buying this compares to the kind of money MS give them for timed exclusivity.
    Edited by Whitster at 17/03/11 @ 16:08

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #11 1 year ago

    Will the ps3 version have a full trophy compliment, or will it just be limited to the same 12 as the 360 version.

  • Malek86 #12 1 year ago

    Why do people seem more bothered by timed exclusives than real exclusives?

    I mean, I would expect the opposite. Playing late is better than not playing at all.

  • Cappy #13 1 year ago

    No offense but I don't think the £6 lost from you not buying this compares tho the king of money MS give them for timed exclusivity.

    If a lot of PS3 users did that exactly that it would finish this sort of timed exclusive for good. For such limited 'exclusivity' Microsoft probably weren't offering much, mostly it was about promotion and positioning on the store front end.

  • Lee_Morris #14 1 year ago

    Meh avatars (if we even get them over here) but it's good to know it's on it's way. I fully admit that if the game is near identical to the 360 version I'll buy it on the PS3 for trophies and it's the only console my mates own.

  • rick1199 #15 1 year ago

    Stupid People on Here: "We wont buy this game because its a couple of months late"

    Ubisoft "Not many people bought BG&E:HD on PS3, BG&E2 will be Xbox360 Exclusive"

  • evild_edd #16 1 year ago

    @beemoh: Oh, cool, that makes sense :0)

    Oh, and I agree that it's not that big a deal as a timed exclusive. I'm a Wii60 owner myself, so don't have the delay on this title. I shall purchase (bargain at 800 points!), but by the time I get round to playing it the PS3 release will have probably happened...
    Edited by evild_edd at 17/03/11 @ 17:22

  • wattsn26 #17 1 year ago

    @Malek86

    You're point makes no sense. 3rd party game companies depend on multiplatform sales to thrive so they can gain revenue and acquire more sales. Microsoft had no hand in the creation of "Beyond Good and Evil HD" as they are not the publisher, so putting a game such as this first on the 360 then two months later on the PS3 is absurd.

    Exclusives that are created by Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo have every right to be exclusive and stay exclusive because they are funding that game's development, distribution and promotion. The "Uncharted" "Mario" and "Halo" give consumers a reason to buy a PS3, Wii or 360.

    @Rick1199

    Uh no. They knew what they were doing when they gave the game temporary exclusivity, if sales are low for the PS3 version then they have no one but themselves to blame for not releasing it day and date with the 360 version. And if that means BG&E 2 does not get a release because of low sales on PSN then maybe Ubisoft never really wanted to make it in the first place.

  • Mister-Wario #18 1 year ago

    evildedd: I know what you mean but I managed with just a Wii for a good two years. I have a 360 but I hardly use it.

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #19 1 year ago

    All this talk of bad camera controls is putting me off, its a classic that passed me by the first time, but nothing irks me more than bad camera controls, especially if they are inverted, the only place i want to see inverted controls is in an aeroplane!!

  • rotmm #20 1 year ago

    All I read here is an awful lot of "Waaaaa waaaaaa waaaaaahhhhhH!"

    Kinda pathetic really.

  • Malek86 #21 1 year ago

    @wattsn26: wait a second, so what you are saying is that there shouldn't be any 3rd party exclusives? Because those have always existed, you know.

    Anyway, I'm the first to say that it's better for games to be multiplatform, but people here are acting almost as if they'd rather not see the game on PS3 at all.
    Edited by Malek86 at 17/03/11 @ 18:52

  • talideon #22 1 year ago

    @beemoh Pick up the Gamecube version. It's not too difficult to get your hands on, and it was arguably the best of the console versions at release. All you really need is a Gamecube controller. Still, it'd be great if Ubisoft were to release a tweaked version with upgraded graphics and modern controller support.

  • Alestes #23 1 year ago

    I wonder how many of those who complain about Ubisoft releasing the game later the PS3, complained when the PS2 version was released 1 month before the PC version and 3 months before the Xbox/GameCube versions?

  • wattsn26 #24 1 year ago

    @Malek86

    No there shouldn't be any 3rd party exclusives ever unless hardware limitations keep it from being available on another platform. "Bully" "Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice and San Andreas" should have been available on the original Xbox along with the PS2. But in that gen the sales of the PS2 were so massive it was an afterthought putting certain games on multiple platforms, this gen hardware sales and specs are almost equal for the two HD systems so theres really no excuse for not being able to put 3rd party games on multiple systems.

  • Murton #25 1 year ago

    "The HD revamp of Ubisoft's 2003 adventure classic Beyond Good & Evil will be available on PlayStation Network in May in the US, the publisher has announced."

    Eurogamer could not be bothered to ask Ubisoft to comment on a European release.

  • goatjugsoup #26 1 year ago

    I dislike psn and don't really have space on my ps3 to have full games on it, I really hope they release a hard copy, if they do, I'll buy it for sure.

  • saku_luk #27 1 year ago

    Instead of these avatars they could fix those camera issues for ps3 ^_^;;;

  • InternetRed #28 1 year ago

    I loved the original, and I'm tempted for the HD remake, but two little pictures isn't really going to keep me holding out for the PSN version. Hell, considering I own the original on the three consoles, maybe I'll end up buying the remake on Live and PSN too! :p

  • 3william56 #29 1 year ago

    Buy it a launch and we'll green light BG&E2 would give me much more happy...