Beyond Good & Evil 2 may be canceled for good - after more than a decade of development, the game has yet to come out of pre-production, according to French publication Origami, citing sources inside Ubisoft.
Over the years, the concept of the project has been revised several times.
Initially, a massive multiplayer universe was planned with many planets in the spirit of Fortnite and Destiny.
Then the developers moved to a cooperative of four, then two.
Now Beyond Good & Evil 2 is primarily a single-player adventure without an internet connection, but with the possibility of a cooperative experience.
The combat system is similar to Spider-Man from Insomniac.
At the same time, Ubisoft Montpellier alone continues to work on the game with at least 250 people.
Another internal review is ahead, which could be the last one amid massive cuts to Ubisoft.
Previously, the management assured employees that the project would not be shut down under any circumstances, but now the answers to questions about its future are:
Some developers admit that they have stopped understanding what kind of game Beyond Good & Evil 2 should be and why it hasn't been canceled yet.
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