Monday, June 14, 2010

Ubisoft's press conference

1) Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. They're now jumping into the multiplayer realm and you can clearly see that in the trailer. At the end near a dozen assassins are standing next to each other. Jumping around the city with a friend sounds awesome, I'm curious to see exactly what it turns out to be. Using teamwork to complete tasks will hopefully be loads of fun, but some kind of versus mode could also be fun!

2) ShaunWhite Skateboarding. The demo shows a colorless city and you're suppose to encourage the citizens. Doing tricks is bringing color back to the city. Also shown off is a new feature that allows you to make your own path using the right analog stick. Connect rails/jumps by making your own path in between them. The building just transformed 'Transformer's style' opening up a new area after he tricked off all the billboards he needed to.

3) Games you can Feel. A demo of what looks very similar to laser tag happens as people are running around shooting each other. Then a demo where you have to scan 4 blocks, in order, and shoot the 'base target' after each one. The only difference from any of the laser tag games you've played as a kid is that it records this to a computer so you don't have to keep track of things yourself.

4) Innergy. This looks like a zen kind of game that helps you relax. A sensor is attached to your finger as you try to get your heart beat under control by controlling your breathing. Long breaths in/out. Using your mind/body as the controller.

5) Motion Sports. Your Shape: Fitness Evolved. More fitness games for the Kinect. They basically just showed the same demo from the Microsoft press conference.

6) Raving Rabids: Travel in Time. The same little rabbits you know and love, now traveling through time. Hits stores November 9th on the Wii.

7) Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Optical camouflage is now a reality and it's used for.. well sneaking. With the ability to scan the area for enemies and mark them (Splinter Cell: Conviction style with a longer range) you can plan your route in order to take them all out. At the end a bunch of camouflaged soldiers have enemies marked and on the call, they all drop at once as you take the target hostage. A battle in open field takes place after you snipe the pilot of a helicopter, complete with baddies and a vehicle-type drone enemy. A brief talk about 3D/stereoscopic ends the demo. That marks a couple 3D games planned for this year.

8) Driver: San Fransisco. Change vehicles on-the-fly between cars in your vicinity. About to crash? Activate the ability and jump to a nearby car to keep on going! Using 'Shift' (aforementioned ability) and multiplayer together will change how you experience multiplayer.

9) Project Dust trailer shown. Looks like some kind of hidden power is being unlocked that is dragging everything into its wake, quick sand style. First time I've seen/heard anything about this so I'm not sure what to think yet.

10) Rayman Origins. The goofy platformer style is back with an awesome art style behind it. No more details other than the trailer.

11) Maniaplanet. User-powered gaming. Create/share content to distribute in one place. Shootmania (FPS), Trackmania (Racing), Questmania (RPG) all announced. One matchmaking system, one editor, all shared through the same distribution channel. Launched through the next few months on PC.

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