Speaking with Kotaku, Beyond Good & Evil‘s Michel Ancel spoke of his vision for the original title and hinted at what to expect for its sequel.
“Even on Beyond Good and Evil 1 it was supposed to have space travel and all these things but we were limited,” Ancel said.
“The big thing that is really cool is that the consoles are now so powerful […] The amount of memory the CPU has, you can do those things now. It’s not ‘Oh, we will never do it.’ It’s working.”
Ancel said games like Star Citizen have incorporated — or elaborated upon — some of his plans.
“We’re looking at games like Star Citizen and seeing they have these big planet systems and thinking ‘We have the same problems but we are more advanced on this side, [whereas] they’re doing something nice on this side,'” he continued. “It’s crazy and difficult to explain to people how technical making a game is. Now it’s not anymore about polygons and things like that, it’s about millions of behavioural AIs, systems, and giant spaceships crashing on big planets.”
We’ll have more on Beyond Good & Evil 2 as it’s made available.
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