BG&E2 to be "more immersive, complex" News
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Michel Ancel believes that, with the power of the new consoles, he can finally fulfil his original ambitious ideas for Beyond Good & Evil.
"We'll conserve the spirit [of the first game] but the form will change," Ancel told All-Gamers during a video interview, translated by our friends at Eurogamer France. Bon.
"For [BG&E], we wanted to create a more cinematographic game, but we didn't have the technical ability to do that. So we simplified. It was fun, because I remember we had to create a work for Sony to demonstrate how original our game was in order to get the dev kit. We wrote BG&E like we were in a film. After, we understood it would be very tricky to reach that immersion on that console!
"But now, with the next-gen consoles, we feel it is possible to develop the game we thought of for the first," he said.
Ancel said Beyond Good & Evil 2 - announced at UbiDays last May - will take longer to create but be "more immersive" and "more complex" as a result. The French clever-clogs noted that there is more expectation on the sequel now the brand is established, too.
So, when? "It is very difficult to answer: there is an unknown aspect," explained Ancel, revealing that his team has been working on new concepts that don't always work out, making dates difficult to forecast
"We could have finished the game," concludes Ancel, "but we want BG&E2 to bring something to the videogame universe."
He was also coy about which platforms we will see Beyond Good & Evil 2 on.
"We are not sure," Ancel admitted. "We are on a next-gen format but we can't say if it will be one or two." He even kept the possibility of a Wii version alive, claiming that his technical ambitions didn't "eliminate adaptations or particular versions".
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Comments: 1-26 of 26 in total
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hoathenfold
03/04/09 @ 11:19
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I wish the original was made available on Xbox downloads - Id love to have another run through of this before #2 arrives!
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ChthonicEcho
03/04/09 @ 11:23
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First Ubisoft says the first one was too complex and they want the second one simplified, now this guy says completely the opposite?
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IronCladChicken
03/04/09 @ 12:09
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@Matfink
The Wii should be fine as long as they shave back on the graphics |
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Mentalist(air)
03/04/09 @ 12:19
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Hope they don't apply the current Ubi template of awesome graphics and production, repetitive tasks and boring gameplay.
This one's being done in France, not Canada, so it should suffer so much from jaderaymonditis. |
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Mentalist(air)
03/04/09 @ 12:22
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Ancel: "We are on a next-gen format but we can't say if it will be one or two."
Surely after the timed-exclusivity marketing cock up of the original BG&E, they'd get their rollout fixed this time round. Besides, Ubi already have a very capable cross-platform engine. |
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I bought the first one on GC originally. It was fairly good. I'm not sure this is actually going to be a great game. I sense ambition, publisher eagerness, media expectation and general hyperbole all combining to create an underwhelming flawed sequel. I want it to be good, but I just have this nagging feeling it won't be.
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metalangel
03/04/09 @ 13:33
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So long as it keeps the silky smooth controls, magical atmosphere, enchanting title screen music and protagonist based off Emma Du Caunes (yum) I will be happy.
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Transcendent
03/04/09 @ 13:59
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"We are on a next-gen format but we can't say if it will be one or two."
It's coming to the Xbox 720 and the PS4? Retards makes me not want to buy their games. |
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Thornhillboy
04/04/09 @ 22:34
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I really really really hope this is longer than the original BG&E. It may be a sign of how good it was, but I felt like I went through the original far too quickly for my liking, even including taking photos and collecting everything.
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3william56
05/04/09 @ 02:39
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Tomo- yes you should. It's a definite slow burner, because it's so unlike most of what else we play (or was back then). I didn't get the demo at all and passed on it first time around. Then only after folks here went on about it so much, I grabbed a second hand copy years later. Even then, it took a few hours to really see what the fuss was about, but once you do, it's wonderful.
(Unless the lack of massive t*t physics and exploding helicopters puts you off, of course) |
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