Ubisoft's adventure game Beyond Good & Evil 2 is still currently in development, according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot.
In an interview with Polygon, Guillemot said that the game is still in development and is still something that game designer Michel Ancel is passionate about, but Ancel is also working on other projects as well.
"What's very important is that Michel Ancel is kind of doing too many things at the same time," Guillemot told Polygon. "He was working on Rayman Origins last year, and he's working a lot on Rayman Legends this year. So, you know, when he does that, he kind of puts too much of his time on the other projects that he has. So the fact is, that working on Legends is slowing the process on Beyond Good and Evil 2."
Guillemot said that Ancel still has a creative spark and passion for the project and that the delay is really about the designer being busy.
"It's really a game that we've been working, we have worked on, and is a game that we want to do," he said. "But there are so many things that have to be done that, you know, this one is going to come in line at one point, but at the moment Michele is really on Rayman Legends."
The game has had a strange development history. In a 2005 article from Eurogamer, Ancel said that he original planned for Beyond Good & Evil to be a trilogy, but the game's sales weren't good enough to warrant a sequel.
"It's not that much of a problem to do it," he said. " It seems that a lot of people would like a sequel, and I wrote the story to be longer, so it would be good to finish it. But we have no plans for that."
But 2008, Ancel announced that he had been working on the sequel for about a year and a few months later Ubisoft showed a teaser trailer for Ancel's next project, which turned out to be Beyond Good & Evil 2.
The game will likely be released on Microsoft and Sony's next generation of consoles, but there is no guaranteed release date. Watch the teaser trailer below...
