The Mysterious Target X Years later, Black 2s concept trailer was discussed by Alex Ward, formerly Criterions creative director, on August 5, 2013 via Twitter.

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It was planned to be a co-op shooter for the Xbox 360 and PS3 with a release in late 2007early 2008.

The Original Idea For Black 2 Despite recurring rumours of Black 2 rumbling for several years after the release of the original game, its development was, in actuality, rather short-lived and it never was able to leave pre-production.

As it turns out, EA and Criterion had plans to expand Black into a franchise for some time before the first game was even released.

Preliminary work on the sequel commenced as early as April 2005, a whole 10 months before Black was finished.

Artists were contracted externally to produce conceptual documents for the game, including drawings of the protagonist, Jack Kellar.

According to one of the artists who spent a short period of time on the project, there was some debate over the direction the follow-up would take.

One possible path, for example, would have continued the story of the first game, as Kellar continues his hunt for Lennox at the behest of the US government.

Jack Kellar concept art: A Reboot of The IP As we have come to understand, Criterions time drafting concepts with a third party art studio ended around October 2005.

It was then put on the back-burner until the first Black was completed.

Apparently, the team was also considering another, alternative direction for the sequel that would have been completely separate and self-contained from the original in terms of narrative.

To our knowledge, the specifics of the story behind these characters was not figured out, but they would have been the basis of this other new version of Black, had it been made.

Creative Differences According to one of our sources, formerly of Criterion, pre-production on Black 2 after the release of the original initially lasted several months before grinding to a halt around May 2006.

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The source claims that there was a disagreement between key members of Criterion and EA over how to proceed with the game and the direction it should take.

Allegedly, Stuart Black, a senior designer on the first game, actually left the company over the matter.

As I recall, Stuart Black left over a disagreement with the direction it should take he wanted it be more closely tied to Black and they couldnt reach an agreement over it Despite this, it appears that plans to produce another Black game remained in the pipeline for some time after this.

Following Stuart Blacks departure, work on the project steadily continued and it began adopt the latter route of a co-op shooter, abandoning the story elements of the first game.

It was in November 2006 that EA somewhat quietly announced that it was officially happening.

Regardless, it appears that it was shortly after this fiscal statement when the title fell apart.

It has never again been mentioned publicly again by EA staff and was absent from all of their future financial reports.

Had development moved forward successfully, it would have been released during their 2007 fiscal year, which ended March 31, 2008.

It never advanced past pre-production, although a decent amount of material was created for it, including a concept trailer.

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