'Miraculous': Beyond Good & Evil 2 Fans Can't Believe the Game Has Survived Ubisoft's Major Project Cull That Killed the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake

Beyond Good & Evil 2 fans are celebrating a tiny portion of bully quality to travel from Ubisoft's large cull of projects, studios and radical yesterday — that aft astir 2 decades, the crippled that holds the Guinness World Record for the longest improvement inactive isn't dead.

While yesterday saw the extremity of Ubisoft's plans to merchandise a Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake (a task that the institution had been moving connected for astatine slightest six years) and 5 different unnamed games, nary notation was made of Beyond Good & Evil 2, whose record-breaking improvement present spans astir 20 years, disconnected and on.

Indeed, Beyond Good & Evil was named by Ubisoft arsenic an ongoing franchise that would present beryllium overseen by its reorganized "Creative House 4" division, dedicated to communicative driven and phantasy games. Separately, Insider Gaming has reported that the task is so inactive live today, arsenic the particulate settles.

On reddit, Beyond Good & Evil's long-suffering fans person reacted to the sequel's endurance by calling it "miraculous", "insane" and simply "too large to fail."

"It's insane this crippled is inactive successful accumulation and survived," dan_in_his_own_way wrote. "Don't get maine wrong, I privation to play it but the cancelation of the Price of Persia remake deed truly hard. A task that would arguably outgo them little and necessitate little resources than Beyond Good & Evil."

"Beyond Good and Evil 2 volition past World War 3," quipped Travguard. "But it inactive won't beryllium retired by the armistice," added meathappening.

One fan, 33Sharpies, pointed to the apt fiscal implications of Beyond Good & Evil 2 ever being canceled, astatine which constituent Ubisoft would person to constitute down the outgo of its gargantuan development. While the task is inactive alive, however, it tin inactive beryllium listed arsenic an ongoing asset. (Insider Gaming has reported that the task has been valued internally arsenic having present outgo implicit $500 million, though that fig is unverified.)

Beyond Good & Evil 2 is believed to person primitively begun aboriginal improvement successful 2007, with bid creator and Rayman mastermind Michel Ancel and his Ubisoft Montpellier squad connected board. Over the coming decade, improvement was mostly paused portion Montpellier worked connected different projects, but Ubisoft re-announced the crippled with fanfare successful 2017 and showed disconnected an in-engine conception featuring abstraction formation and designs to diagnostic aggregate star systems and planets.

Again, however, improvement struggled — and the task was further impacted by Ancel's departure from Ubisoft and the bittersweet decease of its consequent originative pb Emil Morel. But the past mates of years person seen enactment coalesce erstwhile more, with the sequel's characters fixed intriguing cameos successful the caller Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition, portion a caller originative manager — erstwhile DICE and King seasoned Fawzi Mesmar — has travel connected committee to dependable the ship.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 inactive lacks immoderate connection of a merchandise day — and whitethorn good person been 1 of the titles Ubisoft delayed to person further polish yesterday. As of now, however, it remains live — nevertheless improbable that whitethorn seem.

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