Round Up: What Was Announced at Ubisoft Forward 2024?

If AC Shadows and SW Outlaws review favourably I could 100% see myself buying each at full price. I think both look FANTASTIC, but I rarely pre-order before reviews drop haha

A mid showcase

Still waiting for beyond good and evil 2 🥲

They really didn't announce anything but updates. The Outlaws and Shadows demos looked good, though.

Sands of Time remake reboot teaser was a little embarrassing.

@get2sammyb You know Ubisoft haven’t used that version of their logo since 2017 right? 😝

Nothing is interesting for me.
I miss Ubisoft's Imagine and Petz games during Wii and NDS era.

Ubisoft has fallen harder than almost any other major publisher in my eyes. They used to drop bangers. Now the best they can muster is GaaS updates and trailers for expansions to games that underperformed expectations. WTF are they even doing?

@MFTWrecks what bangers are you referring to? they have been releasing games from the same old, stale franchises for the past 10 years. creed series, rabbids, far cry, just dance and whatever tom clancy related. rinse and repeat. the only breath of fresh air was rayman origins/legends and a few other ubi art games which feels like eons ago now. most of their new IP failed (such as immortals fenyx rising and starlink) so they had to return to the well. the only time ubi was decent was during the ps2 era with the prince of persia trilogy and the original splinter cell games but that was nearly 20 years ago. once they became complacent due to the early success of assassin's creed series, they stopped making games from passion and adopted the assembly line mentality.

Lmao at the people trying to downplay Ubisoft, they literally have a better lineup than Sony for the rest of the year, SW Outlaws and AC Shadows both look awesome tbh.

Honestly a really solid showing. AC and Star Wars look great.

Still no new Rayman game, still no Child of light 2 announcement 🙁

@Porco But that's what I mean. AC used to be events, not cookie cutter releases. Same for Farcry. Splinter Cell used to get people to sit up and pay attention. Hell, the R6 and Ghost Recon games used to mean something.

As you say, maybe it's further back than I realized, but it happened. They've utterly failed time and again for awhile. (Which, I'll note, was not Immortals' fault as that game was solid through and through.)

Just kind of blows my mind they're even still big enough to hold their own conference. Like... their show could have been a blog post/email that ***** was so stale.

They get 1/2 games worth showing and even THOSE are clearly made up of bits and pieces and elements of other games they've been making for ages. May be good, may even be fun... but innovation? Excitement? Doesn't seem to exist at Ubisoft.

No splinter cell remake or division 3 news

Shadows and Outlaws look good, especially outlaws. I can wait for big price drops on AC games, Black Flag was the last I purchased when released on PS3. However Outlaw I want now after watching the video of gameplay.

@MFTWrecks true. it is a miracle they haven't completely folded at this point. take a look at their stock price. they were at 102EUR per share in 2018. they are currently sitting at 22EUR per share — an 80% dip in just 6 years. i think it is a matter of time before they are acquired. they have some potentially valuable IP but need better management structure and to forgoe their rushed development cycles. they would be better off with just one or two creed games per console cycle for example so that they can implement meaningful changes between releases. it's pretty sad that the company is so incompetent that they can't even figure out how to go about the prince of persia remaster/remake. as for beyond good and evil 2, it might take the prize from duke nukem forever as longest development hell cycle in gaming history.