What to expect (and what not to expect) from Ubisoft in 2023

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And ultimately, this is the least likely Ubisoft game to release in 2023, or possibly ever. Which is very sad.

Original 2003 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time It was a revelation. A great game that reinvents the way all third person action games are played, with an amazing time rewind mechanic and a great 3D platformer. Sadly, no one else had the good sense to copy them, and 20 years later we’re still stuck in a quagmire of action games that endlessly kill us instead of letting us continue. Oh, and there was a Jake Gyllenyhaal movie about rubbing salt into the wound.

A remake was announced in 2020, with an ambitious release date of January 2021. Spoiler alert: That wasn’t the case, and it may have been for the best, given how awful it looked in the trailer above. Then hopefully it was only delayed until March 21, before they seemed to admit to themselves that it felt like a PS3 game and put it on the road. That same year, Ubisoft said it would appear in fiscal 2022-2023, then took it from Indian developers Ubisoft Mumbai and gave it to Ubisoft Montreal, before announcing another postponement last May, without even guessing the fiscal year.

Come last November, things looked even worse when Ubisoft has canceled all pre-orders and refunded all. Perhaps it’s an instructive lesson in why you shouldn’t pre-order games that don’t exist yet. publisher He insists the game hasn’t been cancelledbut a new release date hasn’t been hinted at yet, meaning 2024 is also unlikely.

But wait, it will probably come out Before Beyond good and evil 2.

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