Ecco The Dolphin Creator Confirms Multiple Games in Development, Says 'Ecco Has Always Been More Than a Game About a Dolphin' 

It's official: "several" caller Ecco the Dolphin games are successful development.

Last summer, the creator of Ecco the Dolphin pleased galore fans by announcing that not lone were remakes of the archetypal games underway, but a "third" instalment was besides successful development. Ed Annunziata — the archetypal creator of the famed and fiendishly hard action-adventure games — was interviewed astir raising consciousness of water conservation, his beingness arsenic a developer, and, close astatine the end, helium dropped his bombshell revelation.

California-based developer A&R Atelier, astatine which Annunziata works, revealed successful a property merchandise that it is remastering Ecco the Dolphin and Ecco: The Tides of Time, arsenic good arsenic that all-important 3rd game.

“It has been years successful the making, and we’re honored to bring Ecco back,” Annunziata said (thanks, Gematsu). “Ecco has ever been much than a crippled astir a dolphin — he’s a span betwixt worlds.” Sadly, that's fundamentally wherever the details stop, but the developer said to support an oculus connected some its website and the authoritative Discord for much information.

Ecco the Dolphin primitively launched successful 1992 connected the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, and was followed by a sequel, Ecco: The Tides of Time, successful 1994. Ecco Jr. and Ecco Jr. and the Great Ocean Treasure Hunt were released successful 1995, though they were "edutainment" games and chiefly developed arsenic learning tools.

You play arsenic the titular dolphin, your underwater satellite present devastated by a swirling gust of aerial and water. You indispensable assistance him navigate backmost done treacherous tropical reefs and freezing polar crystal floes to reunite him with his dolphin pod. There person been a fewer remasters since: we thought the 2000 remake was okay, writing: "Ecco the Dolphin is simply a classical from SEGA, but sometimes classics should enactment successful the past," and of the 2007 remake, we wrote: "For those who person played Ecco before, there's truly nary crushed to travel backmost to it."

The past Ecco the Dolphin crippled — ostensibly the "third" game, though Annunziata wasn't progressive — fared overmuch better, however, getting a 7.6 successful IGN's Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future review. A further sequel, Ecco 2: Sentinels of the Universe, which had been written arsenic a nonstop sequel to Defender of the Future, was cancelled.

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