Well it definitely wasn't gameplay. Probably one of those proof of concept videos that are pre-rendered but meant to be a target for the actual game play (like this one for Mirror's Edge). Looks pretty legit and definitely looks bad ass though.

This is looking good whatever it is.

That's Jade alright. I put my wiener on the computer screen.

Please oh please oh please oh please...

That was fucking incredible. Day one.

...whoa. That was pants-tentingly awesome.

Definitely looks scripted to me but a big YAY for BG&E!

DEFINITELY pre-rendered, but HAWT either way. Looks very good if it is on the Assassin's Creed engine.

I'm going to quote you the reply I made in the BG&E community forum post. Ahem:

"Oh my god. This... I... wow.

Just... Jesus Christ!"
-Ugly Duck

Every wonderful feeling from BG&E rushed back... but there's more. I think this is what Ancel was talking about it being the original vision he had for the world. I know, I know, it's like 20 seconds of footage but fuck you if I'm not allowed to get dicksplodingly excited about this.

I will say one thing however, Jade kept bumping into things. I think that's likely to be a big mechanic in part of the free running and I hope it doesn't irritate while you're just, say, running around the town. On the plus side, the crying baby was a clever addition, as well as the guy on the john.

Also, White Light, if you could explain a few things that lead you to believe that, it'd be helpful to me.

That is sum sexy graphics, is this all in game? I hope this is BG&E2 and NOT Mirror's Edge.

MIND = BLOWN.

I don't care if this is pre-rendered, I just shed a tear at the sheer beauty of it.

Not very happy with the realistic look of all this... doesn't seem at all necessary or fitting given the great stylized appearance of the original =/

My penis just grew.

The first thing I thought of when I saw the header image was seeing faiths reflection as she was hanging from the helicopter at the end of the Mirrors Edge demo. If anyways actually watching the trailer just made me feel more like it was trying to be like Mirrors Edge. Not that that's a bad thing. Aside from my mild disappointment that this post was in fact not one announcing Mirror's Edge 2 the game looks great. I'm looking forward to seeing more of Beyond Good and Evil 2.

@UglyDuck

It's mostly the tiny details. Mainly how fluid she moves through the city like the part where she jumps through the bathroom window, the part where she jumps on the three dudes, the way she looks back afterwards, & when she bumps into the camel. No matter how good you're animation is, if it's not pre-animated there's going to be just the tiniest jitter of transition from one animation to the next which is not visible here at all. Euphoria (as used in GTA4) kind of eliminates that but not completely. Besides that, there's other stuff like how loose the camera follows and how it has just too clean of a look to not be rendered and processed (if you've worked with CG you'd know what I mean).

Not to say that the final game couldn't turn out very VERY close to this. As a matter of fact, I'm almost certain it will and it definitely has me excited for it.

Definitely BG&E2, probably not real-time, but still awesome-looking. Interesting how the designs have a more Middle-Eastern vibe (the camels, the Indian-ish music, some of the clothing designs), but that helicopter/crane that she jumped onto at the end looked... Italian, I guess (probably because the tips were white, green, and red). Looking sweet as hell, between this and Rabbids Go Home, my respect for Ubisoft is growing once more.

At about the 0:12 second mark when she hits the guy with the stick, they used a Jade sound effect from BG&E 1. Just sayin'

Hooooooooooloyyyyyyyyy Shhiiiiiiiiit.

I'm with GuitarAtomik. Probably a pre-rendered 'target' video. Definitely incredibly cool, though.

I think I just went steril.

holy fuck