The Just Cause games were the ultimate destruction sandbox games. Anything that's red can be blown up, and Avalanche Studios made four games based on that principle. Unfortunately, the studio shuttered before we could get a fifth game or could put out the game it was working on at the time, Contraband. However, it's another of the studio's earlier planned games that we're going to talk about today.
Out of all the studio's canceled projects, former CCO Christofer Sundberg claims AionGuard was the one that stung the most. Perhaps the old wound has begun to sting again because Sundberg claims the medieval fantasy game was a lot like the recently launched and highly popular Crimson Desert.
Ambitious games getting canceled has become commonplace in the industry today, but Sundberg believes AionGuard had all the ingredients to be successful as it "would have been Crimson Desert". In an interview with PC Gamer, he said that a lot of the game's features are similar to Pearl Abyss' game.
"It was exactly that. I haven't played Crimson Desert enough, but we had everything that I've seen from Crimson Desert in the plans for that game," he said. “It was signed with a big...
