Announced in 2008, the project Beyond good and evil 2 is gaining momentum with the announcement of a new creative director, the third in five years, in the person of Ubisoft and video game industry veteran Fawzi Mesmar.
It must be said that since its actual formalization, at E3 2017, and the publication of two CG scenes, the project has suffered several setbacks. In 2020, the departure of Michel Ancel disrupted plans and the Ubisoft Montpellier teams, who work on the title together with the studios in Sofia, Paris, Barcelona and Bordeaux, are suffering.
A game “still in pre-production”
In an exclusive interview given to the Tech&Co Multijoueurs program, Xavier Poix, director of Ubisoft’s French studios, agreed to talk about the project “still in pre-production.”
The accumulated delay of the title does not mean that the ambition has been lowered, but quite the opposite: “It is a game of such ambition that does not exist in the industry. We always believe in it, we want to take our time. because these games are true gems If we had to compare it to a diamond, I would say that it has to be cut perfectly.
“We are in a phase where we know what we want, we know what we want to aspire to, we know how to aim for it, now we have to create the tools to do it and we are refining the different aspects of the game,” reveals Xavier Poix.
However, development has once again been shaken by the sudden disappearance in 2023 of the previous creative director, Emile Morel, at only 43 years old. Former right-hand man of Michel Ancel, he worked especially in Rayman legends.
Source: BFM TV
