Avalanche Studios, the Swedish dev staff behind the Simply Trigger sequence and 2015’s Mad Max, has been compelled to cancel virtually as many video games because it’s really ended up releasing. Nevertheless, in keeping with co-founder and former CCO Christofer Sundberg, the studio’s WW1/medieval/fantasy sport AionGuard is the cancellation that also stings probably the most.
Sundberg just lately sat down for an interview with PC Gamer to debate his time at Avalanche Studios, which he left in 2019, and his upcoming sport Samson, developed and revealed by Liquid Swords. Primarily based on the interview, although, it appears Sundberg was no less than as all for much less all for giving an unnamed writer the center finger for cancelling AionGuard in 2009 as he was in selling his new sport.
“I haven’t performed Crimson Desert sufficient, however we had all the pieces that I’ve seen from Crimson Desert within the plans for that sport,” Sundberg revealed. “It was signed with an enormous writer that has a variety of well-known IPs…After which they simply modified enterprise route once more and wished to deal with their present IPs as a substitute of latest ones. They broke up with us on a textual content message, which I’ll by no means forgive them for.”
Focusing on PS3, Xbox 360, and PS3, AionGuard was an open-world fantasy sport. As Luke Plunkett wrote for Kotaku in January of 2009, “You play a member of the AionGuard, valiant magic knight varieties who survive the top of the world and set about retaking stated world. Which means taking it again from the unhealthy guys, area by area, with every area managed by an enemy stronghold that must be taken down. As a result of the sport’s open world, nonetheless, you are able to do this nonetheless you want. You’ll be able to run straight in and kill all the pieces, or sneak round disrupting provide strains to weaken the bottom, and even enlist the assistance of native tribes. Whichever you want.”
Even after shopping for the rights to AionGuard again in 2009, Sundberg defined that the sport by no means noticed the sunshine of day as a result of “each writer simply shut the door, as a result of it was already introduced.” It’s because Avalanche Studios had opted to announce AionGuard via an EDGE Journal cowl unfold in January 2009.
Whether or not or not the sport would have ended up being Crimson Desert earlier than Crimson Desert is a query that must go unanswered, as the one issues to have survived AionGuard’s cancellation are a handful of low-res screenshots.
