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Ubisoft Conference Re-Cap – E3 2013

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Ubisoft showcased their list of games at E3 on Tuesday, with an amazing lineup of what we’ll see throughout this year and next. Here’s what was announced:

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PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 Releases

 

RockSmith 2014

  • – Alice in Chains guitarist (Jerry Cantrell) live playing in RockSmith on stage
  • – “The Fastest Way to Learn Guitar”
  • – Session Mode with Virtual Band
  • – Releasing October 2013

 

Splinter Cell: Blacklist

  • – Releasing 20 August
  • – Engrossing single player campaign
  • – Co-op Missions
  • – Spies verses Mercs multiplayer
  • – Lots of cool new gadgets – Tri-copter, Thermal Vision
  • – Customisation with balance toward stealth or run and gun

 

Rayman Legends

  • – Same awesome art style you have come to expect with Rayman games
  • – Releases 3 September
  • – Multiple universes and level types
  • – Competitive and Co-operative Multiplayer modes
  • – 120 levels
  • – Musical maps

 

The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot

  • – Build your castle, defences and hero
  • – Attack friends or randoms online
  • – Leave messages on other peoples worlds when you ransack them
  • – Funny Making a Masterpiece video with slap stick humour
  • – Free closed beta, go and register to become part of the world on their official page

 

South Park: The Stick of Truth

  • – Developed by Obsidian Entertainment
  • – Quick Teaser, “New Publisher, Same South Park”
  • – Releasing on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3
  • – “Coming this holiday season, or some holiday season.. hopefully kind of soon. You know how video games are.”

 

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Next Gen Releases –  Xbox One and PlayStation 4 (also including PC)

 

The Crew

  • – Developed by Ivory Tower
  • – Mixes of on and off-road racing, with road vs. dirt races (depending on car customisation)
  • – Four players were on stage demonstrating the game together
  • – Online persistent world spanning the USA where everything is explorable
  • – No solo/single player
  • – Split all the parts of the car away and then put everything back together
  • – Rival Crews
  • – Customise cars on iPad, then make them available in game

 

Watch Dogs

  • – Showed previously leaked trailer which can be seen in our earlier article

 

Just Dance 2014

  • – “All the new party songs in the world’s biggest lounge rooms”
  • – Available on all motion control platforms October 2013
  • – Coming on all next gen consoles Holiday 2013

 

Rabbids Invasion

  • – New interactive TV Show on Nickelodeon
  • – Interactivity will work with Xbox One
  • – Kinect functions

 

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

  • – New CGI trailer
  • – 2 Years of Development
  • – Tonnes of Optional side missions
  • – Everybody loves pirates!

 

Trials Fusion

  • – Tricks added to the gameplay
  • – Smart device integration with Trials Frontier
  • – “One Future, Two Trials”
  • – Coming to platforms – Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, and PlayStation 4
  • – Releasing in 2014

 

Tom Clancy’s The Division

  • – Open world online RPG
  • – Developed by Massive Entertainment
  • – Three weeks since a deadly pandemic has swept the nation during Black Friday
  • – Interactive world map used in real time
  • – Tonnes of skills to choose from
  • – Third person cover based shooter
  • – Releasing on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One