Whereas Ubisoft hasn’t talked a lot about Beyond Good & Evil 2 in a very long time, the collection has a cameo in Astro Bot’s latest stage. In Cock-A-Doodle-Doom, Jade from Beyond Good & Evil is the VIP Bot that gamers can discover.
Cock-A-Doodle-Doom is one among 5 new ranges that will likely be coming to Astro Bot weekly between February and March. Workforce Asobi has added a number of ranges to the sport since its launch, and every new stage has its personal VIP Bot that serves as a cameo for a franchise essential to the historical past of PlayStation. Rayman was a VIP bot in a post-launch stage a few months in the past, and now Ubisoft let Workforce Asobi add Jade as one other Ubisoft consultant. Her VIP Bot is named Insurgent Photographer, and the sport says this bot “Fights the great combat in opposition to evil.”
Jade is the protagonist of Beyond Good & Evil, a Ubisoft franchise that is fairly notorious. Beyond Good & Evil is a sci-fi action-adventure recreation from 2003 that grew to become a cult traditional. Ubisoft introduced a follow-up a couple of years later, but it surely has notably been in growth hell ever since. A brand new model of Beyond Good & Evil 2, now a story prequel starring a youthful Jade, was proven off by Ubisoft in 2017. Nearly eight years later, although, and the sport nonetheless hasn’t come out.
Whereas Cranium and Bones’ lengthy path from announcement to launch is well-known, Beyond Good & Evil 2 someway makes that growth timeline look brief. Whereas Ubisoft has not publicly proven a lot of Beyond Good & Evil 2 in years, it’s not canceled as Ubisoft tries to maintain the collection related. A remaster of the primary recreation got here out final yr, and now Jade is showing in Astro Bot alongside iconic characters like Strong Snake, Rayman, and Kazuma Kiryu.
Astro Bot is out there now solely on PS5. As for when Beyond Good & Evil 2 will likely be out there, who is aware of?