sponsored by PlayStation and destined to be the most ambitious open world created to date, with a stage as large as Europe, with nearly 10 million square kilometers, Wild soon became one of the most interesting exclusives in the future catalog of Sony.
That at the controls of the project there was a michel ancel with his own studio and without the ties to Ubisoft to unleash his creativity, he made Wild one of the most anticipated games on PS4 and, over the years, also one of the great hopes of PS5. However, almost 10 years after his announcement, his future is a complete mystery.
Wild’s Promising Ad
With a newly released PS4, and a Gamescom 2014 conference that served to take advantage of the 10 million units that had already been sold, that event was in charge of presenting the new games to society. michel ancel.
After succeeding at Ubisoft with Rayman and having in the oven another of the brand’s great projects, the still-in-development Beyond Good and Evil 2, Ancel had just founded a studio called Wild Sheep Studio with which he promised to deliver a game that would do justice to his passion for nature.
With a promising trailer showing bucolic horseback riding and gigantic mystical creatures, Michel Ancel pocketed Sony and its audience with the announcement of Wilda game destined to revolutionize the idea that we had of an open world not only in extension, but also in possibilities.
A year later, during the Paris Games Week, the already proclaimed exclusive of PlayStation he reappeared to quell any doubts we might have about him. The game would display with a gameplay video in which we could control at will any animal that was within our reach, thus allowing us to use the strength of a bear to fight and the stealth of a rabbit to avoid being discovered.
A game apparently in development
The simple ambition of its graphics was compensated by the promise of a variable weather and seasonality system, the possibility of playing online with friends and, of course, the magical idea of being able to control anything from a wolf to an ant. There was no one who did not fancy something like Wild.
The focus on the game was huge, but the silence of the studio and Sony two years after that video did not invite much hope. It had to be Michel Ancel who, through his social networks, came out in defense of the title with a new image and the promise to update his personal account with new details regularly.
shot a screenshot January 2017, in February, in March, in May, and from then on the trail of the game was lost forever. Neither Ancel’s publication assuring that they were working hard on the game in 2018, nor the registration of the brand by Sony in 2019, provided new details about the future of the game. Wild.
In 2020 Michel Ancel announced that he was leaving the video game industry to dedicate himself to creating an animal sanctuary and that Wild he was in good hands with the team he left behind at Wild Sheep Studios.
Despite the rumors of cancellation, the study page claims to continue with the development of Wild and lists the need to fill various positions among its ranks. There are no details on when they plan to release the game or what state it is in.