The Just Cause games were the final word destruction sandbox games. Anything that is red could be blown up, and Avalanche Studios made 4 games based on that principle. Unfortunately, the studio shuttered before we could get a fifth game or could put out the sport it was working on on the time, Contraband. Nevertheless, it’s one other of the studio’s earlier planned games that we’ll discuss today.
Out of all of the studio’s canceled projects, former CCO Christofer Sundberg claims AionGuard was the one which stung essentially the most. Perhaps the old wound has begun to sting again because Sundberg claims the medieval fantasy game was rather a lot just like the recently launched and highly popular Crimson Desert.
AionGuard’s Cancellation Hit Avalanche COO The Hardest
Ambitious games getting canceled has turn into commonplace within the industry today, but Sundberg believes AionGuard had all of the ingredients to achieve success because it “would have been Crimson Desert”. In an interview with PC Gamer, he said that a number of the sport’s features are just like Pearl Abyss’ game.
“It was exactly that. I have never played Crimson Desert enough, but we had every little thing that I’ve seen from Crimson Desert within the plans for that game,” he said. “It was signed with an enormous publisher that has a number of famous IPs… After which they simply modified business direction again and desired to concentrate on their existing IPs as an alternative of recent ones. They broke up with us on a text message, which I won’t ever forgive them for.”
AionGuard was pitched as a form of medieval Just Cause, where you play a sorcerer-knight tasked with taking back the dominion by destroying enemy strongholds. Nevertheless, it included rather a lot more features, which Sundberg claims he sees in Crimson Desert today. Nevertheless, considering what number of features are crammed into Pearl Abyss’ game, it is not clear which features he’s talking about exactly.
An open world sandbox where you possibly can take over territories in any way you want sounds pretty generic now, but Avalanche planned to launch the sport for the PS3 and Xbox 360.