Nameless sources from Ubisoft’s Pune and Mumbai studios in India, the previous builders for the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake, say that the writer mishandled the sport’s manufacturing in a number of methods. If true, this could forged Ubisoft’s earlier assertion that the sport’s improvement could be transferred to Ubisoft Montreal in a special mild.
Why the trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake seemed terrible
Based on sources compiled by 0451 Video games, a e-newsletter on Substack that primarily follows the console and PC gaming market in India, Ubisoft mismanaged the remake from the very starting. Remaining nameless for concern of retribution, they blame the inexperienced and over-ambitious management by Jean-Philippe Pieuchot, the boss of Ubisoft’s India studios on the time.
They declare that their groups have been solely given a barebones design doc about 10 pages lengthy, forcing them in impact to reverse-engineer the unique sport’s ranges from the bottom up. Furthermore, the studios have been tasked with utilizing Ubisoft’s Anvil Engine from Murderer’s Creed Origins, trying to take the unique animations of the Prince and in some way match them over the “stockier, heavyset body” of Bayek, the protagonist from Origins.
The sources additionally say that they’d no oversight from Ubisoft till the official reveal trailer launched in September 2020 that presently has a ratio of 5.1 thousand likes to eight thousand dislikes. On the time, followers have been disheartened by the poor graphics for a supposed remake of a beloved sport within the writer’s historical past.
The vocal backlash not solely resulted in Pieuchot being moved to Ubisoft Kyiv and Odessa, however each Ubisoft Pune and Mumbai have reportedly been relegated again to high quality assurance testing with a lot of the senior expertise leaving the studios. The remake was outsourced to Electrical Sq. final yr earlier than being moved but once more to Ubisoft Montreal. Based on the official website for the sport, it’s presently unknown when the discharge date or what the discharge platforms for the remake can be.
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