Prior to releasing the 2008 Prince of Persia reboot and way before this year's Forgotten Sands, Ubisoft was apparently working on a modern-day take on its classic franchise. In a recent interview, a former art director at the company discussed his involvement with the long-canceled project, as well as revealing a scrapped Assassin's Creed game for the Xbox and PlayStation 2.
"After [the Assassin's Creed cancellation, Ubisoft] wanted a spin-off for Prince of Persia," ex-Ubisoft employee Jonathan Jacques-Bellet?te told CVG. "We had some awesome ideas with that too... in contemporary time."
"[Development on Prince of Persia 2008] had already started at that point," he explained. "But they wanted really something completely out of the left field. And back then I was known as one of the ones... 'oh this guy can get some pretty cool, weird ideas'."
Just how weird did it get? Jacques-Bellet?te, now working on Deus Ex: Human Revolution at Eidos Montreal, provided a brief synopsis: "So I had this little team, and [our PoP] was actually in the contemporary world. Think a bit Day After Tomorrow, but replace the snow with sand and everything. It was really wicked. But it got cancelled, and then we did all the Far Crys."
Sound like something you'd play? Or do you think Ubisoft made the right call by dumping the project?
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