Canceled Game 'Would Have Been Crimson Desert' Says Avalanche Head

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Project AionGuard could have offered a similar experience to Crimson Desert, according to the ex-COO of Avalanche Studios.

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Crimson Desert may not be exactly what we had hoped for, but it has undoubtedly found its audience and made it clear to everyone that the interest in extensive open world games is still great. A studio that is well-versed in such projects is Avalanche, known especially for the Just Cause series, and as it turns out, there was a similar game in progress. read more

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If something has proven Crimson Desert is that many people love total freedom in their video games. The ability to look at a mountain and say "I want to climb it" and then go do exactly that is very powerful, and apparently Avalanche was working on a game to take advantage of that feeling long before Crimson Desert emerged. In statements to PC Gamer, Avalanche's creative director and co-founder, Christofer Sundberg, said that AionGuard, the fant…

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Avalanche Studios founder Christopher Sundberg shared details about the canceled AionGuard project—a large-scale open-world fantasy action game in development in the late 2000s. According to the developer, the game anticipated many of the concepts that today make Crimson Desert so impressive. Players would have played as a mage-knight specializing in sieging enemy strongholds, and the scale of the clashes rivaled the epic battles from the Overlo…