12th June 2017, 5:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 12th June 2017, 9:28 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Ubisoft! Ubi started with a bang early on, as they announced Mario & Rabbids Kingdom Battle for real and showed a bunch of gameplay... and a special surprise appearance from Miyamoto himself! The discussion between Yves Guillmot and Miyamoto's pretty entertaining, watch it. One of the games' creators (from Ubisoft) said that Nintendo said to make a Mario game unlike any other Mario game before, and, well, they succeeded, there has never been a Mario game like this. As for the game. yes it is real, and it looks quite good! The graphics are great, with a very Mario look to them, and the gameplay... well, it's a tactical strategy game basically. It looks fun. Once in a battle you move each character within the movement range, shoot at enemies, throw allies at other points in the map, etc. It looks fun, and a Mario strategy game is a good idea which actually works. The concept seemed silly when it leaked, but the game actually looks great. It'll be out in August too, so it's coming soon.
After that, Ubi showed a bunch of stuff, including The Crew 2 (now with planes and boats, and no sign of an overly serious plot like the original... but will it control well this time?), Far Cry 5 (now in Montana, versus a cult), Just Dance 2018 (once again coming to the original Wii!), some more of the new Egypt-themed Assassin's Creed Origin (which was announced at the Microsoft conference Sunday; it's an AC game in every way, just in Egypt now and with a black protagonist. Gameplay appears unchanged though, so it's probably going to be decently fun but not too compelling for me.), an Olympics DLC addon to Steep, the new game Skull & Bones (basically the pirate parts of AC IV/Rogue spun off into a multiplayer-focused, ships-only game; it looks pretty good, though it's a late 2018 title so it's a ways off. It's set in the 1700s as usual for pirate games, but in Indian Ocean instead of the Caribbean. The unique setting could be interesting, I like that the game is trying something different there!), and a few more. It was all well presented, though I did miss Aisha Tyler -- this year she wasn't hosting, they just had the game developers pretty much. Too bad, but it still was a very Ubisoft press conference thankfully with some of their usual silliness.
Then, at the end, came the big reveal... a brand new trailer for Beyond Good & Evil 2! Yes, the project lives, though art style aside it looks unrecognizably different from anything either from the original game or even that BG&E2 trailer from like ten years ago now. The new trailer is great, but it's a 100% CG cutscene without a hint of gameplay. And for the other major negatives, it's a prequel so it won't star Jade; it sounds like some kind of open-world / space exploration game, and not a 3d platform/stealth game like the original; and no year or platforms are mentioned. So yeah, despite being in development for a very long time this game is still early on apparently. That's not great. The game could be great, sure, but knowing so little and with such a dramatic change of everything from the first one, who knows. Now, considering that I did not love the original like many making some changes is not bad, but I would have liked to see Jade return at least. Still, it's kind of crazy that this game is still in development, I hope it actually releases sometime.
Overall Ubisoft's conference was pretty good, and once again is the best one through Monday.
After that, Ubi showed a bunch of stuff, including The Crew 2 (now with planes and boats, and no sign of an overly serious plot like the original... but will it control well this time?), Far Cry 5 (now in Montana, versus a cult), Just Dance 2018 (once again coming to the original Wii!), some more of the new Egypt-themed Assassin's Creed Origin (which was announced at the Microsoft conference Sunday; it's an AC game in every way, just in Egypt now and with a black protagonist. Gameplay appears unchanged though, so it's probably going to be decently fun but not too compelling for me.), an Olympics DLC addon to Steep, the new game Skull & Bones (basically the pirate parts of AC IV/Rogue spun off into a multiplayer-focused, ships-only game; it looks pretty good, though it's a late 2018 title so it's a ways off. It's set in the 1700s as usual for pirate games, but in Indian Ocean instead of the Caribbean. The unique setting could be interesting, I like that the game is trying something different there!), and a few more. It was all well presented, though I did miss Aisha Tyler -- this year she wasn't hosting, they just had the game developers pretty much. Too bad, but it still was a very Ubisoft press conference thankfully with some of their usual silliness.
Then, at the end, came the big reveal... a brand new trailer for Beyond Good & Evil 2! Yes, the project lives, though art style aside it looks unrecognizably different from anything either from the original game or even that BG&E2 trailer from like ten years ago now. The new trailer is great, but it's a 100% CG cutscene without a hint of gameplay. And for the other major negatives, it's a prequel so it won't star Jade; it sounds like some kind of open-world / space exploration game, and not a 3d platform/stealth game like the original; and no year or platforms are mentioned. So yeah, despite being in development for a very long time this game is still early on apparently. That's not great. The game could be great, sure, but knowing so little and with such a dramatic change of everything from the first one, who knows. Now, considering that I did not love the original like many making some changes is not bad, but I would have liked to see Jade return at least. Still, it's kind of crazy that this game is still in development, I hope it actually releases sometime.
Overall Ubisoft's conference was pretty good, and once again is the best one through Monday.