Ubisoft put the lovely and charismatic Aisha Tyler front and center stage once again to host their press briefing, and Ubi has quite a bit to talk about this year. Most of the games featured at the briefing have either playable demos or exclusive trailers at the live booth at the convention. Tyler did acknowledge Ubi had a rough 2014, but assured the audience that Ubi is listening, and more importantly responding, to player feedback.
Ubi kicked off the briefing with the sequel to The Stick of Truth, called South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBrpl3Cb7IY[width=650,height=366]
Matt and Trey talked a bit about the game and their partnership with Ubisoft San Francisco. Here’s hoping that they will put the new game on a current fucking console this time.
A new IP, For Honor, was shown next, although my notes clearly show the game name as Beardly The Barbarian. The 4v4 multiplayer allowed for teams of barbarians, knights, or samurai to kill each other on a field of honor and death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvcZzUpF8ZM[width=650,height=366]
Next was a trailer for new The Crew DLC, called Wild Run. Looks like a bunch of off road shit to me with some bikes thrown in. Nice try, Ubi, but no thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuU9NUER4PI[width=650,height=366]
Ubi then featured a game with a cat riding a flaming unicorn. I was surprised to learn that this is a Trials Fusion expansion called Awesome Level Max.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggIPfrUSOno[width=650,height=366]
Ubisoft then started their annual declaration of love to all things Tom Clancy with some info on Tom Clancy’s The Division. This one has all the right catch phrases attached to it (open world, online, action RPG), so if it isn’t a glitchy disaster right out the door it should make Ubi some money. The live 4-player demo took place in an area of the game called the dark zone, which allows different teams to cooperate or compete for loot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S0_3Ml9heY[width=650,height=366]
Anno 2205 looks like Sim City in space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjrOpFCeObE[width=650,height=366]
Just Dance 2016. I drew a picture of a stick man eating a snow cone during this demo. They had a guy singing on stage, but he didn’t know any metal songs. I’ll upload the snow cone stick man if I get the chance. Link below if you’re into that kind of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lAxNTI4QAI[width=650,height=366]
The Tom Clancy lovefest continues. Rainbow Six Siege has Angela Bassett in it, and she joined Aisha on stage for some mutual admiration after the trailer. Looks pretty intense and there’s a playable demo on the Ubi floor this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJGVliuI5cQ[width=650,height=366]
Trackmania Turbo looks like an open wheeled racer with infinite track options and a lot of vertical surfaces. Live gameplay demo showed off the random track generator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW7pZ-ZBsow[width=650,height=366]
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate places twin assassins, Jacob and Evie Frye, in London during the industrial revolution. The trailers are very impressive, but so were the trailers for Unity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFFcXwIBMPc[width=650,height=366]
The briefing ends with another Tom Clancy game called Ghost Recon: Wildlands. This one has the team taking out drug cartels with many different approaches: long range, assault, or stealth...this may sound familiar to anyone who played the last Splinter Cell game. Roll clip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKFgc_FjTNM[width=650,height=366]
I’m looking forward to getting a controller in my hands at the Ubi booth.
