A pitch video for Prince Of Persia Redemption has appeared, a hitherto unknown and apparently cancelled entry in Ubisoft’s fantasy stab-o-parkour collection. It exhibits a number of minutes of mocked-up leaping round, swordfighting, magic, and an impressively huge beastie. What’s bizarre is that this video has been on YouTube since 2012, barely unnoticed till yesterday. It has been confirmed as actual by Jonathan Cooper, who was the animation artwork director on Assassin’s Creed III at Ubisoft Montreal, so… huh!
It’s a a pre-rendered video used to assist large the game to the massive brass, giving an concept of what they’d need the game to be like however not really a game. While we don’t know precisely when Ubisoft gave up on this concept, I ought to be aware that games are pitched, mocked up, handed over, and cancelled on a regular basis at large firms lengthy earlier than we’d ever hear about them. This may be disappointing however it isn’t stunning. On with the vid!
That’s some Uncharted-grade spectacle proper there. I fairly just like the look of that.
“Wow – haven’t seen this in ages,” Jonathan Cooper mentioned on Twitter after the video was noticed. “Amazing work from animation director Khai Nguyen (For Honor) and team. This target game footage (pre-rendered game pitch) inspired our own pitch for Assassin’s Creed 3 as they did such a great job making it look like real gameplay.”
That AC3 pitch video was made in 2010, which helps date this. Some speculation connects PoP Redemption to an Ubi mission in 2010-2011. Either manner, it didn’t occur.
We’ve not seen a correct new Prince Of Persia game since 2010 (the most recent was 2018’s cellular runner, PoP: Escape). That is a disgrace. While Assassin’s Creed could echo a number of Ubisoft’s trendy Prince Of Persia games, with the swords and parkour and historic settings and that, I’d nonetheless like extra PoP. There’s lots to be mentioned for brief, easy tales with ranges moderately than sprawling open worlds – and magic that’s simply magic moderately than tosh about historical aliens within the Internet or god is aware of what.
Speaking of, Ubisoft will at present present the first gameplay trailer for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla on Microsoft’s Xbox stream.
