Beyond Good and Evil 2 is on hold

PLAYSTATIONGENRATION - 121 days 14 hours ago

Have we not been waiting long enough? Also where is the next ghost recon and Rainbow six ???

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-EvoAnubis- - 121 days 14 hours ago

Can't they put something else on hold instead? I'm sure they have plenty of games I have no intention of buying that they can hold. I Am Alive is a good one; delay that and work on BG&E2.

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Unicron - 121 days 14 hours ago

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Dammit.

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SpoonyRedMage - 121 days 14 hours ago

May be they've put it on hold because it's low priority considering all of 3 people bought the first one.

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bigjclassic - 121 days 14 hours ago

Ghost recon and AC2. BG&E2 would have been great like the 1st one but, Ubi wants guaranteed money.

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Steven Colbert - 121 days 14 hours ago

F*** Ubisoft then

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Major_Tom - 121 days 12 hours ago

Yes put the sequel to one of the best games in a long time on hold. That will show people!

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TVippy - 121 days 12 hours ago

Yap, put some crap like Rayman Rabbids on hold dammit.

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yog-sothot - 121 days 9 hours ago

that really sucks... Ubi keeps saying they want to make quality games, and they cancel / put on hold the sequel to this gem ? Only Michel Ancel can be more pissed than I am right now about this.

I'm not buying any Ubi game anymore, I'll just borrow Splinter Cell from a friend, rent it or buy it used (something I usually never do)

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jay2 - 121 days 9 hours ago

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEPPPPPP Ubi, youe gwtting like Sone Europe wuth PS3

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Tomonobu Itagaki - 121 days 9 hours ago

The reason behind that is because the first BG&E was not a real success in terms of sales. Just like Okami, despite a critical acclaim, sales were too low. Many IPs died because of the lack of sales.

Once again, Okami is a good example for what came after. On PS2, sales were not sufficient, Clover has been closed by Capcom and they decided to port it to Wii, hoping a resurrection. Okami on Wii flopped too.

With BG&E2, Ubisoft had to face a major dilemma. They know BG&E is a AAA title, but they are afraid BG&E2 flops too, and most investors hate risks, especially for a game that may be expensive to develop. By now, Ubisoft releases casual games on Wii and DS to finance hardcore games on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. So all their hardcore franchises must be successful, and if the game comes from an existing IP, they must adapt it to be wide audience friendly.

That's what happened to Rainbow Six. It used to be a very strategic game and it became a run & gun with some James Bond gadgets. If R6 stayed so much elitist, it would certainly have flopped.

With BG&E2, Ubisoft have two alternatives: either adapt the game to be more badass, more action-oriented, more spectacular, more "pop corn" to be accessible and attractive to every public, and advertise it as much as possible. But that's risky, that's costy, and investors don't like that. Either put it on hold until they see an opportunity to start the development.

This opportunity can be a game that sells very well, so it can covers a potential sales failure like BG&E2, or it can be the abort of the IP, and in this case another studio may take it to develop it on its side, like what happened with Red Dead Revolver (developed by Capcom, then aborted and taken back by Rockstar) or Brutal Legend (developed with Activision, then aborted and taken back by Electronic Arts).

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SuperSaiyan4 - 121 days 8 hours ago

Very well said.

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Pixel_Addict - 121 days 8 hours ago

It was right around the time when they releases the first Splinter Cell for the 360 (then later, poorly on the PS3).

They're probably making room in the budget to push the next Splinter Cell game. Its a shame really, Beyond Good and Evil 2 could be a rebirth for Ubisoft, but instead they choose the rehash the same, tired old Splinter Cell game. Nothing is gained, for gamers, by releasing Splinter Cell for the 100th time. Sneak around in an inappropriately dimely lit hallway for about 9 hours... fantastic.

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BlackIceJoe - 121 days 7 hours ago

This really saddens me. I still own a copy of Beyond Good & Evil for the Xbox. I so was looking forward to getting to play BG&E2. But I guess that is not going to happen now. I could only be happy with this news if this means that BG&E2 gets the time and money it needs to be an excellent game.

Plus that Rayman 4 gets to come out and Ancel work on the series again. I also would love to see Rayman 4 go back to 2D. I just hope Ancel is getting to do some thing creative and is not stuck doing some thing He does not want to do. Because He has helped make some really great games. So if He is not working on BG&E2 I hope He is working on a new IP.

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lordgodalming - 121 days 7 hours ago

Booooooooooo!

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tplarkin7 - 121 days 3 hours ago

BG&E was not as good as the reviewers claim. That's why sales flopped hard. In general, the game-play was highly scripted and contrived. (Like PoP). Somebody at Ubisoft grew a brain and decided to ditch a sequel.

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