Ubisoft’s Summer Fair 2010
Ubisoft held a summer fair for all of us to go and get hands on with all of the latest upcoming Ubisoft titles.
These include: Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood, Driver: San Fransisco, Just Dance 2, H.a.u.x 2, Future Soldier, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Racket Sports, Shaun White Skateboarding and Ruse. Both Microsoft’s Kinect and Sony’s Move was playable, we got our grubby sweaty hands on both for sure!
Current Release Dates
Be aware that the following dates may of changed, these were valid at the time of the event.
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood – 19th November
- Driver: San Fransico – Q1 2011
- Just Dance 2 - 15th October
- H.A.W.X 2 – September 3rd
- Your Shape: Fitness Evolved – November (Kinect Launch)
Interviews:
Driver: San Francisco
So Driver has returned to the streets of your video game console. As mentioned in the interview this is a straight up ‘reboot’ of the initial title so nostalgia is already pumping through your listening veins.
The game, entitled San Francisco, has you driving the streets of a massive open-world city with story missions popping up as the thoughts of other drivers patrolling the streets. This mission system is said to be an easier way of being able to jump straight into the action and get to grips with driver’s chase gameplay.The ‘shift’ feature is a story element that Tanner is in a coma and able to see the entire world, It’s a little freaky we admit but It sounds like it will make some entertaining gameplay throughout the game.
Tanner returns to chase his enemy throughout the world, named Jericho some sadistic crime-lord hell bent on ramming into stuff, as well as you calling you names, dirty names.
Multiplayer is also a key feature in the game with the end result having 9 online modes.
Interview – Phil Branley (Brand Manager)
Reflections return to develop to the game and we’ve been informed that most of the original ‘geezers’ have returned to the office to produce the game.
Interview – Matt Benson (UK Brand Manager)
H.A.W.X 2
Tom Clancy has returned once more to the sky’s of the earth, taking pilot of the best in future aircraft warfare equipment, stuff that shoot’s rockets.
The game has been equipped with a load more technology. The game features geographical data which helps render the world in a more realistic manner. From the demo we got to see, we were blown away by the snow capped mountains and the details of the valleys while flying over a mountainous area. Dog fighting with that as a backdrop is true beauty irony being how disgusting war is, what a bummer.
The Singleplayer campaign will have you piloting plans for lift off as well and landing them onto aircraft carriers, for those remaining Top Gun fans (like myself) I can’t wait to be making the perfect landing while listening to my own custom soundtrack of ‘Danger Zone’ and the sound of Tom Cruise crying.
The game is out September 3rd on all major platforms.
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
We love the Assassin’s Creed, I think everyone does, It’s been one of the biggest franchises of the past 5 years and it’s gained a massive fanbase which just love the idea of stabbing bad people in the face.
Brotherhood continues Ezio’s story (as well as desmonds) as he returns to his villa to get on with his life after, annoyingly, not killing the pope. Bad decision Ezio because your villa gets jacked and your on the fighting side of things once more. You will travel back towards Rome to reform the assassins and this will allow you to create your own “Brotherhood” of fellow Assassins.
Brotherhood is the first Assassin’s creed title to feature a multiplayer mode and from what we have played of it, It’s truly awesome and we can’t wait to play more.
Check out an E3 2010 preview of the upcoming Multiplayer PS3 BETA here.
Interview – Jean-Francois Boivin (Associate Producer)
