Beyond Good & Evil 2 is in "Active Creation"

Rayman creator Michel Ancel has confirmed that development on the hotly anticipated Beyond Good & Evil 2 has continued – albeit not on PlayStation 3.

The industry legend said in a video interview with the Toulouse Game Show [via NeoGAF] that the project is at an “active creation stage” and that the developer is focusing on “making it the best game we can”.

Ancel continued that the title will need the technical grunt of next generation hardware in order to realise the developer’s ambition.

He said:

We focus on the game. We create it first and then we’ll see what can run it. We don’t say 2013 because we don’t know when it will come. We’re working to create a great game and it needs more technology.

It follows comments Ancel made last year, when he explained that Beyond Good & Evil 2 would probably not release on current generation consoles.

Speaking about the game itself, the designer touched upon the title’s parkour gameplay:

We had this concept even before Mirror’s Edge launched. And we have a different approach to the first person perspective that Mirror’s Edge has. Prince of Persia and Assassin’s Creed are closer to what we have in mind with the control of the character in a third person perspective.

We use a very dynamic camera that shakes a lot during the action to add life to the camera giving the impression of an action news cover team following Jade. Maybe that could be similar to Mirror’s Edge but the game itself is very different.

If you’re eager to know what all the fuss is about, an HD re-release of the original Beyond Good & Evil can currently be purchased from the PlayStation Store. While it hasn’t aged especially well, it’s still worth checking out if you’re curious.