The game released to much critical success, though not financial and while talk of a sequel quickly gained traction, it seemed there was not much to see, until roughly 4 years later. In 2003, Ubisoft released their first Zelda-clone in Beyond Good and Evil and while the basic gameplay was inspired by The Legend of Zelda series, the story, characters and themes were all their own. These are the games that have been MIA for quite some time and the week formally known as E3 would have been the perfect time to reveal them again, or at least mention them.ĭeveloper: Ubisoft Montpellier | Publisher: Ubisoft | Revealed: June 2017 (2008 if you want to get technical) No the list below has games that are more than one year old since their announcement and some of them are close to a double digit age. The games below were announced more than a year ago, so the list does not included titles like the Motive Studio’s Iron Man game, Mafia 4 or Control 2. More often games are announced to appease shareholders of companies, to help boost the bottom line and very little else. Some games do release the day they are announced, but those are the rare treat and not the normal behaviour. These events are wonderful, however the reveal is more about showing a game is in development, not showing that it is near completion. What I mean by that is we will often get a trailer either CGI or made using the game engine, that may not provide any real explanation about what the game will offer. These events are often about the spectacle of the reveal more so than they are about the game itself. This meant that if you saw a game there, there was a good chance you would have it in your hands within 12 months.įast forward to today, games are announced via showcases like Nintendo Directs, State of Plays or insert name of one here. Each month you would get your magazine or two of choice and then reading through the pages, you would discover a new game was on its way.Īs the number of pages in a magazine were finite, there were only so many games that could be shown off, so the general rule was that games being included were close to release. Years ago, I am talking back in the 1990s, gaming reveals often happened via magazines.
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