Sacré bleu! Can the legends be true? Only yesterday, when we brought you news of Beyond Good & Evil appearing on Steam, I mentioned the rumors of a sequel, and pined for it to be real. My pining has been rewarded — in French! The wonderful folks over at videogaming247.com have spotted an interview over at French outlet JeuxVideo with Michel Ancel, creator of BG&E, which seems to suggest the game has been in pre-production for a year already!
I ran the interview through Babelfish, and came out with the following slightly-mangled words of hope:
At the time of an interview granted to our fellow-members of JeuxVideo Magazine, Michel Ancel (dad of Rayman) declared that Beyond Good & Evil 2 are currently in phase of préproduction. Regarded as being one of the best plays of the year 2003, Beyond Good & Evil unfortunately to discounted business success be was not entitled. “I work on Beyond Good & Evil 2. We have been in préproduction for one year, and we carry out a research task in small committee. But for the moment, it is at the stage of outline, Ubisoft did not give its agreement yet” specified Ancel during the interview. In slides, he announces that they are 10 to 12 people who work on the project.
“We want to be in the continuity of the first: a large variety of phases of play, much of emotions in the gameplay and the attaching characters. This time we approach the future of planet, the report/ratio with the animals [...]”. Enticing, isn’t this? It is hoped in any case that the French editor will quickly give his green light And why not an advertisement to the UbiDays event?
Curse you, discounted business success! Be should get entitled! Near as we can tell, Ancel is simply saying his small team has put a lot of work into preparing to create BG&E 2, but Ubisoft hasn’t given them the final go-ahead.
Ubisoft? Can I talk to you for a second?
Approve the living hell out of this project.
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