You might have heard of a game called “Beyond Good & Evil.” It was, like last week’s Free Game Friday selection, an imaginative and well-regarded game that didn’t make much of a splash at retail, quickly relegated the Ubisoft release to bargain bins and clearance racks (you can find used copies pretty cheap these days, or play it with a GameTap subscription).

Maybe the game was too unique to succeed. The photojournalist heroine was tough and competent, and not played up for sex appeal the way most female game protagonists are. The gameplay was a bit like a “Zelda” game, but with a sci-fi setting. It had its own look and feel, and the matter-of-fact cast of humans, aliens, robots and anthropomorphic animals was bizarre.

Arriving as it did in November 2003, during the crowded holiday release season — and facing competition from Ubisoft’s other releases, like the “Prince of Persia” remake, to say nothing of other companies’ games — it’s perhaps not much of a surprise the game didn’t take hold.

“BG&E” ended on a cliffhanger, but for years there was no solid word on a sequel. A few rumors surfaced here and there. Conventional wisdom was that the game hand’t sold well enough to warrant a follow-up. Some people gave up hope. But not I! And now, here I sit, vindicated — Ubisoft is developing a sequel.

I’m curious: What games do you want to see sequels to? Let me know in the comments!

(Image courtesy BeyondGoodEvil.com.)