Well before Just Cause developer Avalanche lost Contraband, a co-op heist game planned as a major Xbox release, to Microsoft's cascading cancellations, the studio had to abandon an open-world fantasy game known as AionGuard in the '00s. New comments from Avalanche co-founder and former CCO Christofer Sundberg suggest AionGuard could've looked an awful lot like Crimson Desert, the newly released open-world fantasy game from developer Pearl Abyss that's sold millions of copies in a few weeks.
Speaking with PC Gamer, Sundberg directly compares the two games: "I haven't played Crimson Desert enough, but we had everything that I've seen from Crimson Desert in the plans for that game."
