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I Am Alive AnnouncedJuly 16th, 2008Nate Aguilera |
Ubisoft closes with one final announcement. Trailer shown for a new action title.
Small group of guys running after the main character. Main character drops a bottle of water, and the group of guys go after it. Shows an apocalyptic world where a metropolitan city is destroyed. Sort of looks like a Cloverfield scene with one skyscraper building leaning against another. 6 days earlier, main character is shown walking the streets of a modern day environment. Everything looks fine until a huge dust cloud brushes through the city. New game is called “I Am Alive.”
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New Prince of PersiaJuly 16th, 2008Nate Aguilera |
New Prince of Persia is shown. Critics already claiming game will contend to be game of the year. Coming Holiday 2008. Ellica, female character that moves alongside you. She never falls behind and can save you if you die. Helps you go further, go faster. Open world, player can choose the path you want to take.
When interrupted by an enemy, enter combat mode. Centers around the idea of a duel. You and Ellica versus the enemy. Sense of urgency of a boss battle versus every enemy. Acrobatic combat and dynamic camera angles.
Climbing and moving through environment improved to allow casual players able to move around without having to die all the time. If you fall off, Ellica acts as a safety where she will seamlessly bring you back to the previous platform. This avoids having to go through a continue screen just to try again.
Small emphasis on the look and feel, artisitic direction of the new Prince of Persia. Everything in the game world looks beautiful.
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Shaun White SnowboardingJuly 16th, 2008Nate Aguilera |
Small segment on Shaun White Snowboarding. Game is shown played on Xbox 360. Character can be customized to stand out among your friends in multiplayer. Half-pipe is your loading screen so you can practice before the actual map loads.
When friends are in-game you can do stuff like throwing snowballs at each other before going down the slope. You can play with 16 of your friends, seeing each other going down the slope at the same time. You can design your own challenges to your friends, ie doing a particular tricks or risk. While they perform the challenge, you can continue playing your game in a seamless open world experience.
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Ubisoft Teen Girl MarketJuly 16th, 2008Nate Aguilera |
They discuss the teen girl market. Success of their games for girls strategy. Imagine and Petz among the top games sold on DS.
New Petz games coming soon. Raise a whole family of pets: cats, dogs, horses, monkey. For the first time ever, you can cross breed and create your own Petz family. Monkeys and Dogs Sports coming to the Wii. Petz will have plush toys this coming holiday season. On the back of the plush will be a code to have the plush toy appear in your copy of the game.
New Imagine games coming. Imagine Rock Star, Imagine Fashion Designer New York, Imagine Movie Star. Imagine Teacher, Interior Designer, and Wedding Designer also shown. Coming for DS. Imagine Fasion Party and and Party Babies announced for Wii.
This holiday a new brand for games for girls strategy introduced. Focus on more girls now involved in sports games. Ener-G brand announced. Ener-G Adventure Riders, Ener-G Dance Squad, Ener-G Gym Rockers.
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Ubisoft ShootersJuly 16th, 2008Nate Aguilera |
Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway. Coming in September for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.
Tom Clancy’s End War. First game that let’s you play using your voice. Game is entirelly controlled by voice. Trailer shows player calling out commands: Open fire, drop in more troops, take out those tanks, draw them in, send the fighters. Coming Holiday 2008 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Far Cry 2. Coming Fall 2008. Live demo of game shown. You can set the time on your watch to fast forward the time of day. Allows player to choose to launch an attack at 1am during the night, for example. 50sq kilometer game world. You can scout the area to reveal more on your map. Binocular can be used to find a sniper and add the information to your map. Can also mark the location a health pack seen.
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Ubisoft Begins With RaymanJuly 16th, 2008Nate Aguilera |
Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party. You can play sitting down on the Wii Balance Board. You can lean left, lean right for direction on a snow sled game. You can lean back to go faster. When you’re in the air, visual cues will have you have move the Wii Remote and Nunchuck for bonus points. Coming in November for Wii and DS.
Trailer shown using Wii Balance Board for driving a motorcycle, surfing, and snow sled game that was demonstrated earlier. New multiplayer music game that has you point Wii Remote and Nunchuck in different directions.
Metal Gear Meets Assassins Creed?!April 1st, 2008High-Score Staff |
We don’t know if this is just a prank by Ubisoft or by Konami, but man is this one hella of tease for all of us!
HIGH-SCORE STAFF
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Review: No More HeroesJanuary 29th, 2008Jason Glick |
It’s very tempting to compare “No More Heroes,” the latest exercise in playable madness from director Suda 51 and Grasshopper Manufacture, to their last major original title “Killer 7.” Aside from sharing the same director, they were both developed for Nintendo systems (though “Killer 7″ got a reportedly sloppy PS2 port), and feature some of the most out-there storytelling you’ll see in any medium. “Killer 7″ had a team of seven assassins that were really the split personalities of one man fighting a group of invisible terrorist monsters. “No More Heroes” puts you in the shoes of Travis Touchdown, an anime and wrestling otaku who buys a lightsaber beam katana in an online auction and decides to start killing his way up the ranks of the world’s best assassins in order to score with a hot French chick.
JASON GLICK
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HAZE Delayed AgainJanuary 24th, 2008Nate Aguilera |
Ubisoft has pushed back the release of Haze once again. Previously pushed from the 2007 holiday season to the Jan-Mar 2008 period, the game is now expected to arrive “some point” during the 2008 fiscal year, which runs from Apr 1, 2008 to Mar 31, 2009, instead.
NATE AGUILERA
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REVIEW: Assassin’s CreedNovember 16th, 2007Mark Julio |
“If you could kill a few to spare a thousand, would you?”
This is age-old question of ethics vs. morality is the cornerstone of Ubisoft’s latest triumph, Assassin’s Creed.
MICHAEL SHEAR
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Naruto: Rise Of Ninja!October 31st, 2007Harry Chang |
Ubisoft’s been working on this game for sometime now and they promised this one Naruto Adventure to be one unique one. So far, Ubisoft has done a good job. And since we know there’s about 50 bazillion Naruto fans out there, we thought we share the first 10 minutes of this bad ass game. Check it out!
HARRY CHANG
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Naruto 360 Trailer!May 17th, 2007Harry Chang |
We talked about this a week ago, now comes the trailer to this very interesting title. Narutards Unite!
JASON GLICK
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