Beyond Good & Evil 2 Gets New Creative Director as Veteran Designer Fawzi Mesmar Takes the Reins of Long-Delayed Sequel
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Beyond Good & Evil 2 Gets New Creative Director as Veteran Designer Fawzi Mesmar Takes the Reins of Long-Delayed Sequel

The long-delayed sequel Beyond Good & Evil 2 formally has a brand new artistic director, with veteran designer Fawzi Mesmar asserting that he’s taking the reins in the wake of the sudden dying of Emile Morel in 2023.

“At the moment I’m glad to share that I joined Beyond Good & Evil 2 as Creative Director. I’ve been working with these peeps for years now on this bold recreation and witnessed their expertise firsthand,” Mesmar wrote on Linkedin. “I’m standing on the shoulders of artistic giants which have supported the group earlier than me, and I stay up for persevering with to craft a recreation that’s actually distinctive for gamers to take pleasure in.”

Beyond Good & Evil 2 Gets New Creative Director as Veteran Designer Fawzi Mesmar Takes the Reins of Long-Delayed Sequel
Fawzi Mesmar introduced on Linkedin that he’s taking the reins of Beyond Good & Evil 2. Picture supply: Fawzi Mesmar.

In a press release, an Ubisoft consultant advised IGN, “With greater than 20 years as an award-winning recreation designer and inventive director, he’s been instrumental in the profitable launch of over 20 video video games. Mesmar beforehand collaborated with the Beyond Good & Evil 2 group as VP of Editorial. In his new function, he’s targeted on persevering with to construct upon the imaginative and prescient set forth by our late buddy and colleague, Emile Morel.”

Mesmar has held quite a few positions over the course of his prolonged profession in the video games trade, together with the head of design at DICE between 2019 and 2021, and over the final three years has been the Vice President of World Creative at Ubisoft. Earlier this yr he obtained an envoy award at the 2024 Sport Builders Selection Awards.

Mesmar will assist lead a undertaking that has come to be identified as one of gaming’s most notorious instances of vaporware. Not a lot is understood about it save that it is an open world prequel to the unique Beyond Good & Evil and that it’s being developed by Ubisoft Montpellier, with solely a handful of early demos rising over the years. The sport’s unique director, Michel Ancel, departed Ubisoft in 2020, although he is now consulting on a nascent Rayman recreation.

Notably, it appears as if Beyond Good & Evil 2 is beginning to choose up steam. Ubisoft has reportedly moved most of the group behind Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown to the undertaking, and the addition of Mesmar provides it path at the prime. Nevertheless, Ubisoft is coping with lots of different issues, together with rumors of a possible takeover and disappointing gross sales round main tentpole releases like Star Wars Outlaws.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 doesn’t have a launch date and appears unlikely to return out any time quickly, however you possibly can try all the relaxation of the greatest video video games of 2024 proper right here.

Kat Bailey is IGN’s Information Director as nicely as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Ship her a DM at @the_katbot.

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