New particulars on cancelled Immortals Fenyx Rising follow-up

A brand new report from Axios claims to have make clear the cancelled Immortals Fenyx Rising follow-up with new particulars. This follows the information final month that Ubisoft had scrapped the challenge.

Right here’s the total roundup of tidbits:

– Recreation was taking longer due to its scope, revisions to the underlying Murderer’s Creed sport engine the brand new sport would use, and a smaller group
– By Spring 2023, a number of playable hours have been obtainable in an inner demo
– Ubisoft was at a juncture about whether or not to fund full growth or nix the challenge
– Gamers may customise their physique kind, gender and look
– Curry favor with varied Polynesian gods, achieve elemental powers and shape-shift, get new tattoos based mostly on the alternatives gamers made because the story progressed
– Go from island to island, every a fictional model of locations resembling New Zealand, Tahiti, Easter Island, and Hawai’i
– Impressed by the Polynesian idea of mana
– Gamers would handle how their in-game actions impacted the land round them
– Was deliberate to be totally different from the remainder of Ubisoft’s video games
– The sport would have dropped issues like quest markers and a compass/arrow that directs them to their subsequent goal
– Gamers would want to go looking tougher to determine the place to go by monitoring animals, following the wind, or navigating by way of the place of the celebs within the in-game sky
– Elden Ring was a core inspiration
– Would have dropped the primary sport’s narrator and the emphasis on fixing puzzles
– Extra malleable story deliberate through which participant selection is important
– Graphics have been extra reasonable in comparison with the earlier title

A superb quantity of labor was completed on the Immortals Fenyx Rising follow-up, and Ubisoft thought of probably rebranding it as an unique sport relatively than a sequel. Nevertheless, in the long run, it finally wasn’t meant to be.