Sony's big E3 2015 press conference may have felt a little like a séance for formerly dead projects, but there's one title that it failed to resurrect: Beyond Good & Evil 2. The astute among you may have noticed that the release was absent from Ubisoft's media briefing, and that's because it's apparently dead as a dodo – probably because the publisher couldn't effectively find a means of shoehorning in towers.
The game, much like The Last Guardian and Shenmue III, has been in development hell for a long time now, but we have seen enough of it to know that it was, at one point, in production. However, according to a journalist from GameSpot, the title has been abandoned, as the team working on it has moved on to other things – including, one would assume, Sony's very own WiLD, which has also been absent at the show so far.
To be clear, the reporter does state that he wasn't able to corroborate his information with a separate source, so warns that he could still be wrong. Given this title's track record, though, we wouldn't bet on that being the case. There's one silver lining at least: Ubisoft can make more open world third-person co-op shooters instead. Oh boy, we sure hope that you have to climb towers to unlock items on the minimap in Wildlands.
[source gamespot.com]
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I'm believing any rumours I hear at the minute, so that sucks!
I wish Tom Clancy had never been born. Ubisoft would be so much better then.
I asked for Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil, and Prince of Persia.
They gave me another Tom Clancy game.
GG, will buy the fractured but whole day 1
@Matroska much better? It's not Tom Clancy's fault Farcry, Watchdogs and Assassins Creed are all the same structure of nonsense.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Watch Dogs is just one game, and at least tried to do something a bit different. Assassin's Creed has some great games, and experiences as varied as climbing around in Renaissance Italy and plundering ships in the Caribbean. They're about history, art, civilisation. Tom Clancy games are about Americans shooting usually foreign bad guys in gritty, self-congratulatory, jingoistic stories that read like US Army recruitment pamphlets. Also about 60% of their games have to be Tom Clancy. Rainbow Six alone has several times the games Farcry does.
Please watch the language -Tasuki-
@Matroska I got bored of Farcry 4, it really was just a terrible story and generally identical to 3 as I hear are most AC games. I only ever played black flag and didn't learn anything from that. Watchdogs was one of the most boring games I've ever played in the 'AAA' category. I've only played a handful of Tom Clancy's games, generally they're pretty pants. Looking forward to The Division though.
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