During last week's Gamelab, Michel Ancel shared his new vision for game development based on emotions, not gameplay. Just before his talk, Gamereactor Spain sat down to talk to him - and asked him the long-standing question about Beyond Good & Evil 2 - and whether it was impossible to match his vision with current-gen technology.

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Speaking with Polygon last week, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot assured fans that the company, and in particular game dev auteur Michel Ancel, remain passionate about Beyond Good & Evil 2 and that work continues on the title, albeit slowly.

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Speaking in an interview at the Toulouse Game Show in France, Michael Ancel, the developer of Beyond Good & Evil has confirmed that a sequel of the game is currently under development.

When asked when the game would be released Michael said that "we don't say 2013 because we don't know when it will come. We're working to create a great game and it needs more tech", this more or less confirms that the game is set to be released on next gen consoles.

“We won’t make promises that we can’t keep. We are in an active creation stage (of Beyond Good and Evil 2) and at this moment we are only focusing on the game and making it the best game that we can. That decision would just distracts us from that objective. I can say that it’s a very ambitious game and we need some tech to achieve that ambition.” said Michael Ancel.

When asked if the game had taken any inspiration from DICE’s Mirror’s Edge, as a previous a demonstration (below) looked to have borrowed some of its mechanics, Michael replied:

“No, not at all. We had this concept even before Mirror’s Edge launched. And we have a different approach to the first person perspective that Mirror’s Edge has. Prince of Persia and Assassin’s Creed are closer to what we have in mind with the control of the character in a third person perspective.”

“We use a very dynamic camera that shakes a lot during the action to add life to the camera giving the impression of an action news cover team following Jade. Maybe that could be similar to Mirror’s Edge but the game itself is very different.”