More than 15 years have gone by since the initial announcement of Beyond Good and Evil 2. Yes, nearly two decades in the making, and it still hasn’t come out. Should the game ever release, though, Ubisoft can boast about it garnering a world record.
Last week, GamesIndustry.biz editor Brendan Sinclair noted that Duke Nukem Forever currently holds the ‘longest development period for a videogame’ category at Guinness World Records, taking 5,156 days from initial reveal to shipped product. However, it shouldn’t hold that title anymore because 5,239 days have passed since Beyond Good and Evil 2‘s first trailer on May 30, 2008 — just saying that aloud is enough to add wrinkles to your brow.
Duke Nukem Forever went 5,156 days from its announcement in 1997 to its release in 2011.
It has been 5,234 days since the first Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer was released.
— Brendan Sinclair (@BrendanSinclair) September 28, 2022
Beyond Good and Evil 2 has been delayed countless times since its first trailer. The game briefly resurfaced at E3 2017 and 2018 with cinematic teasers before vanishing again, but there’s not been much on it since. Ubisoft claims the game is still in active development, so it hasn’t been canceled, much to the surprise of everyone keeping score.
The original Beyond Good and Evil came out in November 2003 to critical acclaim but didn’t sell well. Many fans thought a sequel would never happen, so there was loads of hype when Beyond Good and Evil 2 was actually announced. Sadly, it’s hard to say if it’ll ever actually release.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
