Beyond Good & Evil

You don’t really expect a game made in the wake of 9/11 to look like Beyond Good & Evil. There’s no flashback to Afghanistan, no presidential address from the White House. The only American accent in the main cast belongs to an anthropomorphic pig whose exclamations evoke the gold rush era (“Cramity! Flagnabbit!”). Yet this colourful fantasy adventure from 2003 is politically of its time.

Ubisoft Montpellier set its adventure in Hillys