![]() The remake was outsourced to Electric Square last year before being moved yet again to Ubisoft Montreal. The vocal backlash not only resulted in Pieuchot being moved to Ubisoft Kyiv and Odessa, but both Ubisoft Pune and Mumbai have reportedly been relegated back to quality assurance testing with much of the senior talent leaving the studios. At the time, fans were disheartened by the poor graphics for a supposed remake of a beloved game in the publisher’s history. The sources also say that they had no oversight from Ubisoft until the official reveal trailer released in September 2020 that currently has a ratio of 5.1 thousand likes to 8 thousand dislikes. Moreover, the studios were tasked with using Ubisoft’s Anvil Engine from Assassin’s Creed Origins, attempting to take the original animations of the Prince and somehow fit them over the “stockier, heavyset frame” of Bayek, the protagonist from Origins. They claim that their teams were only given a barebones design document about 10 pages long, forcing them in effect to reverse-engineer the original game’s levels from the ground up. ![]() Remaining anonymous for fear of retribution, they blame the inexperienced and over-ambitious leadership by Jean-Philippe Pieuchot, the boss of Ubisoft’s India studios at the time. ![]() According to sources compiled by 0451 Games, a newsletter on Substack that primarily follows the console and PC gaming market in India, Ubisoft mismanaged the remake from the very beginning. ![]()
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