Pirate game Skull & Bones has a new vision, Ubisoft has said – but don’t expect a re-reveal until 2021.
Skull & Bones, which was announced three years ago at E3 2017, won’t be at tonight’s Ubisoft Forward event, creative director Elisabeth Pellen said in a blog post. We last saw gameplay in 2018.
So why the delay? “The answer is that we simply needed more time,” Pellen said, before suggesting the game has gone through quite the transformation behind the scenes.
“We dreamt something bigger for Skull & Bones, and these ambitions naturally came with bigger challenges.
“These difficulties resulted in necessary delays for our game. Critical questions needed to be addressed over the past several months such as: how do we modernise the classic pirate fantasy? How do we ensure a more immersive and visceral experience? How do we create cool and memorable moments in-game? For most of these questions to be answered, it was clear that we needed more development time.