Ubisoft’s canceled Immortals 2 would have been a Zelda: Wind Waker-like adventure mixed with some Elden Ring

Seems like Ubisoft’s canceled Immortals 2 would have been a slightly fascinating recreation, going by a brand new report.

Talking with Axios, two sources conversant in the sport’s improvement acknowledged the sport would have been slightly massive and set on a fictionalized model of the Polynesian archipelago, one thing beforehand rumored. The sport was in improvement at Ubisoft’s Quebec studio, which introduced in Polynesian consultants for the challenge.

Codenamed Oxygen, Immortals 2 improvement had such scope that improvement time was taking longer than hoped, and including to the timeline was the very fact revisions had been being made to the Murderer’s Creed engine, plus it was a small crew to start out with. As well as, Ubisoft wished to focus most of its assets on Murderer’s Creed Pink, and with that, you have got your reply as to why the sport was axed.

Ubisoft’s concentrate on Murderer’s Creed should not come as a shock contemplating when the sport was first reported as canceled, it was mentioned the corporate determined to work as an alternative on its most “outstanding manufacturers,” and that’s certainly the case as there are a number of Murderer’s Creed video games within the works.

Regardless of the lengthy improvement time and presumably a number of setbacks, this previous spring, the interior demo had a number of playable hours of gameplay – a level to the place Ubisoft would determine whether or not to fund the sport or cancel it.

When it got here to gameplay, it was mentioned gamers might create their very own character, and so they might ingratiate themselves with Polynesian gods. They might have been ready to make use of varied powers and shape-shift, journey between the islands, and would wish to concentrate to how their actions influenced the land.

Immortals 2 wouldn’t have held your hand, and it did not characteristic a number of markers on a map. As a substitute, it pressured you to look and determine for your self which route it’s good to journey; nonetheless, monitoring animals, following the wind, or utilizing astronomy would assist level you in the proper route.

So far as inspiration from Elden Ring and The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker is anxious, the sport would have dropped the narrator, would not have an emphasis on puzzle fixing, and have a narrative the place participant selection issues. Graphics would have been extra lifelike, which made the builders take into account whether or not to rebrand it as its personal recreation and never a sequel to Fenyx Rising.

In keeping with what the sources informed Axios, the sport’s cancelation got here as a shock to the builders, however with gross sales of Ubisoft video games dropping in recent times and a gradual launch schedule, it isn’t too shocking the sport was canceled, in order that the corporate can as an alternative focus a franchise that could be a positive guess.

Final yr, it was reported {that a} sequel to Immortals Fenyx Rising was within the works, and whereas the unique could wasn’t as heavy of a hitter as Ubisoft could have favored, critics and those that performed it appeared to get pleasure from it.

In our evaluate of Immortals Fenyx Rising, we mentioned that so far as next-gen titles go, the sport was “positively one you have to be including to your checklist,” and that it “seems to be improbable on Xbox Collection X.”