After a considerable wait, we have new news to give you about Beyond Good & Evil 2. A few hours ago a live stream was held: lo Space Monkey Report. The video in question is part of the Space Monkey Program, the initiative with which the development team decided to involve the game community. The purpose of this video and this initiative is not so much to make fans aware of the development of the title, as to make them participate in any stylistic choices. Needless to say, how much the creature's Michel Ancel is expected by gamers around the world. Well, this afternoon we learned a little more.
Beyond Good & Evil 2: a decidedly ambitious project
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Based on the limited information available to the public, Beyond Good & Evil 2 punta in alto, very high. Michel Ancel and associates have declared that there will be a galaxy, with related planets, all characterized and freely explorable. L'gaming experience, hearing what the designers said, it will be completely no loading times, in order to give the player the feeling of being in one big game world. It goes without saying how much all this remembers No Man's Sky. The hope, of course, is that the disastrous and disappointing result of the project will not be retraced. However, the developers have stated that, unlike the Hello Games title, Beyond Good & Evil 2 will be set in one star system, with a predefined number of planets to create and "fill".
Cities, therefore, will be created personally by the developers, and will not be procedurally generated. We will find ourselves exploring the System 3, a new system compared to the System 4 seen in the first game. Different speech for the NPC. Beyond the fundamental characters for the development of the plot, several NPCs will be generated in a procedural way, and each of them will have its own activities to carry out. In addition, each city will be connected with others through business, which can be influenced by the actions of our character.
Let's analyze the gameplay of Beyond Good & Evil 2
One of the reasons Beyond Good & Evil 2 will be released more than 15 years after its predecessor is fundamentally abouttechnological advancement. It was not possible to manage, for consoles of previous generations, a game like this. But then let's go more specifically. What will Beyond Good & Evil 2 have in store for us? First of all, the character we will use will be 100% customizable. We can even decide on the background, whether it will be male, female or even transgender, and whether it will be human or hybrid in nature. This second chapter actually represents a prequel than seen in the first game. The title will be set well 50 years earlier of the events narrated in the first Beyond Good & Evil. It will not be necessary to play the first chapter to understand the events narrated in the second, but there will be some references.
If, in the first game, the hybrids they were seen as human beings, in this Beyond Good & Evil 2, instead they will be seen as slaves. Some of them will choose to rebel to find freedom, thus becoming real pirates. As perhaps not many know, Beyond Good & Evil was initially meant to be one trilogy. This new chapter will, therefore, be the first episode, while the PS2 game is the central chapter. It is therefore clear that a third chapter.
How to earn a noteworthy spaceship?
If you were in love with the huge spacecraft seen in the trailer, know that this is exactly what we are going to talk about. Initially your character will have only a small means of transport, which will allow him to move from one city to another. Mission after mission, you will accumulate the credits necessary to unlock better and better ships, up to the vehicle shown in the trailer, which can even contain smaller spaceships.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 will offer a very varied gameplay. It will be possible to explore the various planets and cities available, going in search of the quests to be carried out, but there will be some more action phases such as the chases seen in the trailer shown at E3 2017. Obviously, the video seen in Los Angeles mainly symbolizes the ambitions of the project, not so much what its graphic rendering will be. It goes without saying that, from the trailer, one can clearly understand how much the series has taken one much more mature fold. The will behind this second chapter was to expand the universe that was seen in the first Beyond Good & Evil.
The gameplay will lead us to explore all the "elements". There will be both missions to play with your feet firmly planted on the ground, and missions in which we will have to fly, aboard the ship or thanks to the jetpack, and quests in which we will have to dive underwater. In addition, the title will also offer several minigames, on the style of Gwent, the card game seen in The Witcher 3.
An ambitious project ... perhaps too much!
Wanting to sum up, after about an hour of live streaming, we can say that this Beyond Good & Evil 2 is a game that really promises a lot. The problem is, or could be, the impact with reality. Raising the hype level can be a double-edged sword, games like Watch Dogs and No Man's Sky know something about it. The impression was that the meat to cook is really a lot, but that development is still in an embryonic stage, to say the least. Beyond some concept art and a character creation system, absolutely nothing was shown about the game. The live stream itself was clearly aimed at fans, but without the purpose of giving a lot of new information.
No gameplay has been seen, no new videos have been seen, nor has there been any talk of release dates. In short, the risk is that we are talking about a game that it could be released many years later. The very presence of Michel Ancel suggests all this. The famous designer is already working on Game, the PS4 exclusive, and on the Nuovo Rayman, titles that, at least theoretically, should take precedence over Beyond Good & Evil 2. The fear is that of witnessing a new "Kingdom Hearts case", whose third chapter has even skipped an entire generation of consoles.
When can we get our hands on Beyond Good & Evil 2? Only time will tell, but the impression is that the wait will be very long.
Stay tuned for more news on the matter.
