If you never heard of the ridiculously underrated gem Beyond good & Evil for the original Xbox, go to your local retailer now and get the game for a reduced price. You will have to know the story for the upcoming sequel which has been announced at UbiDays last May. The second iteration of the game will take longer to create but will be “more immersive” and “more complex” as a result. Check inside for more details.

In a recent interview with Michel Ancel, game designer for Ubisoft, he told All-Gamers that, with the power of the new consoles, he can finally fulfill his original ambitious ideas for Beyond Good & Evil.

We’ll conserve the spirit [of the first game] but the form will change.

For [BG&E], we wanted to create a more cinematographic game, but we didn’t have the technical ability to do that. So we simplified. It was fun, because I remember we had to create a work for Sony to demonstrate how original our game was in order to get the dev kit. We wrote BG&E like we were in a film. After, we understood it would be very tricky to reach that immersion on that console!

But now, with the next-gen consoles, we feel it is possible to develop the game we thought of for the first.

According to Ancel it is very difficult to give a release date because there is an unknown aspect. His team has been working on new concepts that don’t always work out, making dates difficult to forecast.

When asked about inspiration for this new game, Ancel replied with the following:

There were a lot of inspirations: the Miyazaki universe, my own inspirations, politics and the media; the theme of September 11 - the CNN show with army messages and the fear climate. And it was a mix from other universes.

It’s different from Zelda and other titles like that; very good games but they are out of time. [BG&E] was issued of the actuality.

The new game will pick-up almost exactly where the original left off, Ancel said. The story will continue and react on important events of the first, so people who liked the first should like the second as well.

As said, no date nor platform have been confirmed yet, but we will likely here more soon.

Are you eager to see old friends again? Are you curious if Jade still has a preference for green and if the pig Pey’J will be doing his business again? Did you like (and play) the original? Are you at all excited to play the sequel? Let us know below.

Source: EuroGamer