Ubi Soft Reveals E3 Lineup

May 3, 2006, 12:26 pm EDT
Total comments: 9

Rayman and others take a spin on Wii.

Ubisoft announces E3 2006 video game lineup
Paris, FRANCE – MAY 3, 2006 – Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced its lineup of titles for the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) May 10–12, 2006 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, Calif. Ubisoft will showcase its titles at booth #924 in the South Hall.

“Our E3 lineup demonstrates Ubisoft’s profound commitment to the next-generation of video games," said Yves Guillemot, president and chief executive officer of Ubisoft. “Ubisoft is very excited to be introducing ground-breaking new intellectual property and showcasing how we bring innovation to our best-selling franchises. Our award-winning development teams are pushing the limits of what can be achieved and leading the industry into the future."

Ubisoft lineup for E3 2006:

• Assassin’s Creed™: Experience the power of a feared Assassin in the game that will redefine the action adventure genre for the next generation. Players’ actions will throw the immediate environment into chaos and shape events in this pivotal moment during the Third Crusade.

• Brothers In Arms Hell’s Highway™: Gearbox Software’s critically acclaimed squad-based WWII shooter launches into the next generation of gaming with amazing graphics and cutting-edge game play features powered by Unreal Engine 3 and a completely redesigned online component. As Matt Baker, lead a squad of real soldiers who think, relate and fight together through the brutal trials of the dramatic Operation Market Garden.

• Dark Messiah™ of Might & Magic®: Discover a new breed of PC game that will redefine the Action-RPG genre. Powered by an enhanced version of the Source engine from Valve, the second chapter in the new Might & Magic® franchise allows players to experience ferocious combat as an expert warrior, mage, or assassin using a vast array of devastating weapons against vicious creatures in a captivating fantasy environment.

• Enchanted Arms™: The first RPG developed exclusively for Xbox 360™, this epic adventure created by FromSoftware in Japan is arriving for the first time in North America and Europe. Enchanted Arms allows players to escape to a fantasy world filled with beautiful cinema-quality graphics, unique characters and bizarre creatures.

• Game to be Unveiled: Experience the next-generation project from Ubisoft and Free Radical, the developers of the critically-acclaimed Timesplitters® series for the first time at E3.

• Open Season™: Team up with the cast of characters from Sony Pictures Animation’s feature-length CGI film Open Season coming in September. It’s a riotous romp in the great outdoors for kids of all ages when a rowdy brood of forest animals turn the tables on unsuspecting hunters.

• Rayman Raving Rabbids™: Developed by famed creative director Michel Ancel, this new installment of the Rayman franchise will be the funniest and zaniest yet. Rayman’s world is threatened by a devastating invasion by the most unexpected creatures and Rayman must battle to save his world and its inhabitants.

• Red Steel™: The only original first-person game built from the ground up and exclusively for the Wii™ launch. Red Steel takes full advantage of Nintendo’s innovative controller and provides the unique experience of combined gunplay and swordplay.

• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent™: The best-selling Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® saga is taking an entirely new direction. In the highly anticipated next chapter, play as a double agent spy for the first time. Take on dual roles of covert operative and ruthless terrorist, where choices of whom to betray and whom to protect affect the outcome of the game.

• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Vegas: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® makes its dramatic next-generation debut. Rainbow operatives take to the chaotic streets of Las Vegas as an escalating terrorist siege in “Sin City" threatens to take world terrorism to new heights.

Follow Ubisoft News at our special E3 website: http://e3.ubi.com.

For more information about Ubisoft, please visit www.ubi.com and www.ubisoftgroup.com.

Talkback

Ian SaneMay 03, 2006

"Red Steel™: The only original first-person game built from the ground up and exclusively for the Wii™ launch."

So Red Steel is the only FPS at launch, eh? I wonder if that means Metroid Prime 3 isn't a launch game. Now I don't consider Metroid Prime an FPS but some people do so you never know. But then Ubisoft might not have any idea what other games are in the works anyway.

Oh and "Assassin's Creed" is a pretty cool name. Too bad it's being wasted on, you know, a Ubisoft game.

UltimatePartyBearMay 03, 2006

It's Rayman's Bad Fur Day!

Nothing too surprising, though I guess it's kind of new to play an assassin during the crusades. I wonder if getting hopped up on hashish will affect the gameplay.

Here's hoping that Free Radical game isn't just for consoles that have a 3 in them. I'd like to try a TimeSplitters game with the nunchaku.

Ian: Marketers will use any minor tweak of language to claim to be first at something. They're probably happy to use the FPA description for Metroid. Either that or they're assuming Retro is recycling some of the old Gamecube code (which they probably are; no sense wasting all that effort), so it's the "ground up" phrase that makes them "first."

Hostile CreationMay 03, 2006

"So Red Steel is the only FPS at launch, eh? I wonder if that means Metroid Prime 3 isn't a launch game."

That's possible, but their strategic use of the word original may just mean it's the only new FPS IP at launch.
But it's hard to say.

vuduMay 03, 2006

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• Red Steel™: The only original first-person game built from the ground up and exclusively for the Wii™ launch.

If MP3 uses a modified MP2 engine it's not "built from the ground up".

CalibanMay 03, 2006

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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"Red Steel™: The only original first-person game built from the ground up and exclusively for the Wii™ launch."

So Red Steel is the only FPS at launch, eh?...But then Ubisoft might not have any idea what other games are in the works anyway...

Hey, I'm a "landed imigrant" but even my understanding of English seems better than yours. Ok that was mean of me, but it's either that or I would smack Ian if he said that right next to me.

I'm assuming that COD is also a launch title but it isn't an "original first-person game built from the ground up and exclusively for the Wii™ launch", and that includes MP3. Do you get it now Ian?

MysticGohanMay 03, 2006

I'm sure they have another "FPS" for wii. Wasn't Tom Clancy games confirmed for wii? I'm sure I heard they were. Also I thought I recalled Ubi having 2 "exclusive" games for Rev, one was Red Steel, the other??? Or am I just hallucinating?:p

Karl Castaneda #2May 03, 2006

Second Sight 2! Second Sight 2!