Modern day Prince of Persia was canned

Prince of Persia series fans will be interested to know Ubisoft was at one point working on an installment set in contemporary times. According to former Ubisoft art director Jonathan Jacques-Bellette, the project had begun shortly after the excellent 2008 game, but was canceled.

"That one had already started at that point... Prince of Persia Zero," he said, referring to the 2008 reboot. "But they wanted really something completely out of the left field. And back then I was known as one of the ones... 'oh this guy can get some pretty cool, weird ideas'.

"So I had this little team, and [our PoP] was actually in the contemporary world. Think a bit Day After Tomorrow, but replace the snow with sand and everything. It was really wicked. But it got cancelled, and then we did all the Far Crys."

Whether this was a choice to switch gears in favor of other projects and/or a move to set the Prince and Assassin's Creed series' in distinctly different long-term directions, we can only speculate.

Jacques-Bellette also revealed there was an Assassin's Creed title in the works for PS2 and Xbox.

Source:ComputerAndVideoGames.com

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