Rumor: Beyond Good & Evil 2 footage leaked and lovely

by Randy Nelson { May 8th 2009 at 6:30PM }

Video of what appears to be Beyond Good & Evil 2 gameplay (or a target rendering of such) has made its way online via Kotaku. The one minute clip depicts a character who either is -- or looks incredibly like -- series heroine Jade escaping pursuers in a crowded marketplace using parkour moves a la Mirror's Edge's Faith.

Of course, this could very well be an elaborate -- and well-executed -- fan project and the character might not be Jade at all, but she certainly appears to reflect the updated character design seen in the all-too-short teaser for the game Ubisoft released last year. Oh, and Maybe-Jade, is that a sword on your back?

Perhaps someone in France -- Ubisoft's home turf, and where the site Kotaku says the video originated is located -- just had to slip this out oh-so-very-close to E3. If it is BG&E 2 and is actual gameplay, then wow. If someone's toying with our emotions? Totally. Not. Funny.

Tags: beyond-good-and-evil, beyond-good-and-evil-2, ubisoft, video

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Red Leader @ May 8th 2009 6:36PM

I need to change my pants.

Isaac @ May 8th 2009 6:51PM

Me too.

And hey, is this video any good? I should watch it

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ May 8th 2009 6:55PM

So I wasn't the only one watching octomom nude pics,good.

playwhutyalike (swine flu?) @ May 8th 2009 7:57PM

You experiencing leaking too?

eldee @ May 9th 2009 5:02AM

if this turns out to be fake, or a mod for another game or something, all i have to say is....

i don't care if it's actually BGE2, i want whatever this is, it is fucking awesome.

WTangoFoxtrot @ May 9th 2009 5:43AM

was that in India ? I think that looked like India, the badly kept city, the cow in the street, the lady in the kitchen wearing a sari and then the helicopter had the Indian tricolor painted on its propellers.

SWEET !!

Cosmo @ May 9th 2009 3:40PM

Yes it did look like India. LOL as an Indian at you saying "badly kept city". : D

Marshall Banana @ May 8th 2009 6:36PM

brb, retrieving jaw from floor.

DeepFriedSushi @ May 9th 2009 3:08AM

not realtime, place jaws back onto face.

X-singular @ May 8th 2009 6:38PM

*Speechless*
......................................................................

THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 8th 2009 6:39PM

looks like mirrors edge in a dirtier environment. i like.

sjenky @ May 9th 2009 6:21AM

Jade, meet Faith, she'll escort you to Altaïr

chrisnick @ May 8th 2009 6:39PM

wow...this is just...wow... god i hope that's actual gameplay.

FraGNeM @ May 8th 2009 7:15PM

It's not gameplay.

That said, anything that generates enthusiasm for BG&E:2 is a good thing.

Eh @ May 8th 2009 7:48PM

Its not gameplay at all. No camera is that smart/psychic, and the animation was far too dynamic. It was purely cinematic in a controlled environment. The graphical effects are just way too good as well, the polygons may be realistic for a game but the lighting/blur were too perfect for such large and detailed areas (Im guessing if there was an HD version of this that wouldnt be a single jaggie in sight either).

Martin Greenberg @ May 9th 2009 12:48AM

@Eh Well, it's probably a cutscene if anything at all. It's not impossible to make gameplay look that way, but it's very rare.

J-Boogie @ May 8th 2009 6:40PM

But where's the animal people?

avan @ May 8th 2009 7:56PM

Yeah or the fantasy land shes used to live, trees, floating cars, Venice, nights clubs etc... looks like they moved to afraica too

Bubbameister33 @ May 8th 2009 10:19PM

Afraica sounds magical.

David @ May 9th 2009 1:04AM

Yeah, where's her camera as well?

Evi1d33d @ May 9th 2009 4:10PM

I guess they 'genericified' the game for a wider audience since the first one didn't sell too well...

avan @ May 9th 2009 4:36PM

"genericified" yeah yet the pig is still there, nice...

skyzbig @ May 8th 2009 6:41PM

That is never going to run real-time like that on a console....it's gotta be PC footage if it's real.

tmacairjordan87 @ May 8th 2009 6:47PM

Right, just like how Killzone 2 doesn't look better than 99% of PC games....oh wait it does. You underestimate what these consoles can do.

Billop @ May 8th 2009 6:56PM

The PS3 would like a word with you

Billop @ May 8th 2009 6:57PM

The PS3 would like a word with you

Cosmo @ May 8th 2009 7:08PM

Maybe their demoing it on a PC right now and it will be a bit toned down for the consoles, a few console games have been shown running on PC hardware.

The Baron @ May 8th 2009 7:16PM

You can tell just from the overall fidelity that it can't be real-time on consoles. I doubt it's real-time on PC either, so the point is academic.

Yes, KZ2 looks great and it's very well optimised for the PS3 hardware. But the PS3 is getting old and new generations of PC GPUs are coming out more than twice a year. It's not being a fanboy to say that even mid-range PC components now far outstrip the RSX and Cell, it's just being a realist.

To the topic at hand - the framerate is too smooth, there's too much occurring on screen and the effects are too high quality for it to be real-time, especially at this stage in development.

tmacairjordan87 @ May 8th 2009 6:41PM

I'm skeptical that it's actual gameplay footage, as this is Ubisoft we're talking about...but my god I hope it is.

tmacairjordan87 @ May 8th 2009 6:48PM

Ugh that was supposed to go to the person above me, no idea how it got here. Makes me look like a crazy person.

Billop @ May 8th 2009 6:56PM

WTF my comment was directed at skyzbig :S fucked up commenting for the lose

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ May 8th 2009 7:02PM

Killzone 2 looks like COD4 in high settings if not a bit better and online it looks just like Cod4 or Bad Company because some effects are taken out so you can play online with a smooth framerate.

It could be a cutscene from the game and I guess it could count like gameplay not to mention that Ubisoft has a lot of experience when it comes to sandbox games.They have experimented with different graphics this goes from Assasin's Creed to Prince of Persia and Naruto.

The Cel-shaded effects in POP are incredible,this is the kind of upgrade cel-shaded needed.

Huey2k2 @ May 8th 2009 7:13PM

@tmacairjordan87

Killzone 2 looks better than 90% of PC games?

What are you smoking?

Don't get me wrong Killzone 2 looks great, but to suggest that a PS3 is capable of more than a real gaming computer is silly.

Kenny Powers Fastball (PSN johnnynumber5) @ May 8th 2009 7:57PM

Graphics are subjective. Saying this looks better than that or it couldn't possibly look better because of yadda yadda yadda us merely an opinion. If someone's opinion is KZ2 looks better than 90% of PC games than its equally as valid as someone's opinion of just the opposite. The point is you can't tell someone that what they think looks the best is wrong because its wholly subjective. You could cite frame rate, resolution, special effects and poly counts if you like to bolster your claim but in the end it's still up to the individual to decide what they like best.

My opinion is that the short video is a target render of what they want the final product to look like or what they think they can achieve. I don't believe it's actual gameplay. However, if it is then oh boy is this game going to be intense.

One other thing I would like to point out about the differences in consoles and PC gaming is that a game like KZ2 is optimized for one specific piece of hardware. So, it's going to look the same on everyones console that plays it. However, a high fidelity computer game (or any computer game) has to work on a wide array of machines so it isn't optimized for one specific piece of hardware. It's made to work with a wide array of internal components. In that respect the experience is going to be different for most of the people who play it. I don't even think it's fair to compare consoles to high end gaming rigs because a gaming rig can be constantly updated and adapted with the newest gear where a console is going to be the same until the next iteration is released. Thats one of the appealing things about consoles to me is that I buy one machine that is going to be supported for years without having to upgrade the internal components. I know it's possible to build an affordable gaming rig that can still play on high/max settings but from my experience it's still going to be more expensive over time than a console. But, the difference is a PC can be adapted to change over the times. It's not like we can add more RAM to our PS3 & 360's.

It's all relative but yah there is my semi-rant.

Doug @ May 8th 2009 11:15PM

Right, just like how Killzone 2 doesn't look better than 99% of PC games....oh wait it does. You underestimate what these consoles can do.

I think you have PC confused with the term Wii.
PC beats the shit out of an consoles graphics because it's adaptable. It's like comparing a GTX 285 to a 8800 GTS. The GTS is pretty sick, but the GTX will allow you to render everything instantly and have better quality.
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Otis @ May 9th 2009 3:39AM

Killzone 2 doesn't even look that good, but it DOES look better than 90% of PC games. Are some of you people so insanely biased, that you simply ignore the fact that the vast majority of PC games are made with very, very low specs in mind, simply because they want them to sell? The minority, the "big" games like Crysis are just that, in the minority. If you're going to claim it looks better than the "big" good looking titles, you're going to have to realize you're going to be talking about, at most, about 10 titles out at the moment that really take advantage of even Nvidia 8 Era/ HD 3xxx Era GPUs. Even less will fully take advantage of the cutting edge stuff.