Ubisoft Announces Beyond Good & Evil 2

Gamespot is one of many to report that Ubisoft has announced a sequel to their action-adventure game "Beyond Good & Evil." "The teaser gave no details as to platforms or release date. However, as part of the company's earnings report last week, Ubisoft did say that it had a pair of unannounced sequels in existing franchises set for release by the end of March. Released in November of 2003, Beyond Good & Evil won critical acclaim for its mix of traditional action adventure elements with stealth segments, a picture-taking gameplay mechanic, and an engaging story of a young woman pulled into a rebel faction to blow the lid off of an interstellar government conspiracy. "

Comments

Loved the first one

[Chris Burke]

The first game was awesome. It was in a great many ways a better Zelda than Zelda, in particular its contemporary Wind Waker. The different game play elements were all well done, none of them tedious or annoying. The 'dungeons' were more involved and tightly integrated than Zelda's, seeming to be more of a real place than just a series of rooms with puzzles in them. The story was, for this type of game at least, very good. The only knock against the game I can make is that it's fairly short, but there's a hidden point of praise in there: They didn't decide to jack up the hour count excessively, just allowing it to be a shorter game where you were having fun the whole time, rather than a fun game most of the time, with a long boring part right before the finale.

So, here's hoping the second one is as good as the first. I just, uh, hope there fly-snorting isn't a major game play mechanic.