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#1 Raiden

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Posted 03 June 2014 - 10:56 PM

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After nine months of non-stop marketing, Ubisoft Game is finally here. But does it live up to expectations? Find out in our review.

By Tim Colwill on June 4, 2014 at 3:56 pm

Presented with only the greatest of love for Ubisoft.

By now we’ve all heard of Ubisoft Game, and if you haven’t, then you’ve been living under a rock. Ubisoft Game is the latest in a long line of titles from Ubisoft, and with a bigger budget than ever before and no less than 75 of Ubisoft’s 193 global studios working on it, there’s no doubt that this year’s Ubisoft Game is going to be the big one.

You can play Ubisoft Game on basically any platform of your choice, but we’ve been reviewing it on a next-gen console, because that’s the platform it was made for.

Ubisoft Game is the story of Main Character, a gruff or sassy white man who is really good at parkour, killing, and killing while doing parkour. One of the most iconic features of Main Character is the way he dresses — Main Character’s sense of style and flair really comes across in his tailored outfit, which makes him look distinctive and features a number of clear symbols that can be easily used in marketing and merchandising.

The game takes place in a big open world, with lots of people and maybe even animals living in it. That sounds like it should be a paradise, but it’s not — a Bad Thing has happened and Main Character is right in the thick of it. Or maybe he’s the only one who can stop it? The story in Ubisoft Game is a bit uncompelling, but that’s okay, because there’s just so much to see and do.

When the main story starts, it’s a bit slow and scripted to begin with, but it’s not long before you’re out in the open world doing your thing. Ubisoft really know how to do an open world, and the jungle sections in particular of Ubisoft Game are just amazing. Those guys and gals really know how to do jungle. There’s also some really impressive AI on display, keeping the wildlife and/or people moving and creating a living, breathing ecosystem around you. You can drive cars or possibly horses and run over people too, which is good. This may make guards attack you, which is bad.

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A key mechanic of Ubisoft Game is that control points on the map need to be ‘captured’ to unlock particular areas. Each control point is a challenge and gives you influence over that particular area, and allows you do your parkour or whatever without being attacked by the bad guys. When you’re not capturing control points with your Good Parkour Skills, you don’t have to go and do the main story, although Main Character’s skills don’t unlock until you do which is kind of annoying. There’s lots to see and do. Ubisoft Game is filled with side activities such as This Gambling Game, Beating Up Enemies Until You Are Told To Stop, Looking For Collectibles, and Tailing Somebody Somewhere For Some Reason.

You can also do the thing which works offline with your companion app, which you can download. Once you’ve got the thing, you can use your companion app to do it, on your tablet or smart phone! It’s neat and impressive, but does it add much to the game? We’re not sure.

You’ll want to come back to the main story though, because that’s what Ubisoft Game is really all about. The main story introduces a number of people who aren’t the Main Character, and most of them are pretty forgettable but there are one or two in there who are genuinely more interesting than the Main Character, which is strange. Anyway the main story also has a lot of stuff to do, although there’s a lot of really stupid instant-fail stealth missions where you have to reload over and over again, and it seems like Ubisoft kind of ran out of ideas near to the end. The main story goes for approximately 400 years and it probably didn’t need to be that long.

There’s a lot of combat in Ubisoft Game. From the initial trailers we thought maybe there would be more to the game than combat, but truth be told you’ll be spending a lot of time just shooting or stabbing people, possibly while doing parkour or in stealth. That combat is great fun so that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it’s about time for Ubisoft to realise that not every game needs to be packed with as much action as possible.

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The message of the main story seems kind of lost unfortunately, which is a shame because Ubisoft have clearly put so much money and effort into polishing Ubisoft Game. It feels like they were afraid to really make a statement in the main story, and Main Character just isn’t an interesting enough White Man Who Is Good At Killing to really deliver on the game’s potentially edgy premise. Main Character often does things which are just as bad as the bad guys in the game, and this double standard isn’t really addressed by Ubisoft Game at any point in the narrative.

Ubisoft Game comes in about 4,027 different editions depending on where you buy it and what phase of the moon you’re in at the time, so it’s hard to know if any of the mountains of DLC, Unlockable Extras, Side Missions and Add-Ons for Ubisoft Game change anything significantly about the main story. What we can tell you though is that Ubisoft Game has some neat easter eggs that also make references to other Ubisoft Games, which is nice.

We also took Ubisoft Game for a quick spin on PC, and it’s a mixed bag. Sometimes Ubisoft Game is good on PC and sometimes it isn’t, and this Ubisoft Game follows the same pattern. It’s definitely meant for a controller though, unless you’re doing some shooting. That’s much better with a keyboard and mouse. For those of you wondering — yes, Ubisoft Game uses Uplay. Sorry.

All in all, Ubisoft Game is a game that Ubisoft have made. You’ll play it if you like that sort of thing, and in fact it has already sold 250 million copies.

Ubisoft also make some absolutely incredible smaller games like Rayman Legends, Child of Light and Valiant Hearts: The Great War, but nobody plays those so whatever.

 

 



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Posted 04 June 2014 - 07:17 AM

Shall I make a review on the hundred and fifty Mario games that are basically identical? Throwing stones when you live in the house of Nintendo isn't a wise decision.



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Posted 04 June 2014 - 07:19 AM

Shall I make a review on the hundred and fifty Mario games that are basically identical? Throwing stones when you live in the house of Nintendo isn't a wise decision.

 

Sure, than after your review go purchase a sense of humor .  :laugh:


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Posted 04 June 2014 - 07:27 AM

Shall I make a review on the hundred and fifty Mario games that are basically identical? Throwing stones when you live in the house of Nintendo isn't a wise decision.


You're really comparing Ubisoft's yearly franchises to Mario games? Besides the Super Mario Bros. series they all have quite different gameplay mechanics.

I disagree with this article because Ubisoft do have some decent games but your comments just make you sound like a Ubisoft fanboy.

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 08:21 AM

Sure, than after your review go purchase a sense of humor .  :laugh:

If only we all had a shining sense of humour like yours and we could all laugh at this predictable (and lengthy) joke. I probably would derive amusement from this if it wasn't incredibly ironic and the mannerisms akin to beating a dead horse at this point. This topic will probably serve it's purpose of making the same groups laugh at the same types of jokes at the same peoples' expense, then everyone will forget it ever existed until the next time this type of joke is made, rinse and repeat. Thankfully there don't seem to be hostilities in this case, hopefully it remains that way.

You're really comparing Ubisoft's yearly franchises to Mario games? Besides the Super Mario Bros. series they all have quite different gameplay mechanics.

I disagree with this article because Ubisoft do have some decent games but your comments just make you sound like a Ubisoft fanboy.

Yeah, could we possibly cut this out? This topic (which is already potential flame-bait) will get real old real fast if people start throwing around terms like 'fanboy' just to validate one viewpoint or another, appropriately or otherwise. Nothing about that comment in particular would immediately identify that poster as a Ubisoft fanboy. Perhaps they have an open mind. Perhaps they simply want to play contrarian. Or, perhaps they are simply tired of this egregious back and forth between fanbases over nonsense.

 

I'm just going to head off and write an article about why Mario is crap formatted as a joke and anyone who disagrees is a fanboy with no sense of humour, k?


Edited by Chronozoah, 04 June 2014 - 08:23 AM.

 

Assume that every post of mine is sarcastic or made playing devil's advocate.

 

including this one

 


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Posted 04 June 2014 - 08:31 AM

I'm too mature for all this forum shenanigans. Pinky out Tea time

 Yes quite.


Edited by Ryudo, 04 June 2014 - 08:51 AM.


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Posted 04 June 2014 - 08:51 AM

If people don't like the author/article, Tim Colwill take it up with him and not the OP.

 

If only we all had a shining sense of humour like yours and we could all laugh at this predictable (and lengthy) joke

 

Thanks!



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Posted 04 June 2014 - 09:01 AM

I have to agree with hunter that UBI soft has a list of great games and dont forget the fact that they supported us in the time that most devs gave up on us.



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Posted 04 June 2014 - 09:09 AM

 

Blah blah blah edit edit

I see that you edited your original post out. And then edited the edit out. Can I assume that we're content with pretending that abortion of a post never happened? I mean, why so serious?

Assume that every post of mine is sarcastic or made playing devil's advocate.

 

including this one

Protip: Don't take my posts seriously, especially not with some ironic and unintelligible life-lesson. 

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This is more like it!


Edited by Chronozoah, 04 June 2014 - 09:15 AM.

 

Assume that every post of mine is sarcastic or made playing devil's advocate.

 

including this one

 


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Posted 04 June 2014 - 09:21 AM

I disagree with this article because Ubisoft do have some decent games.


Really? Are you sure?

I dont think thats disagreeing at all.
 

Ubisoft also make some absolutely incredible smaller games like Rayman Legends, Child of Light and Valiant Hearts: The Great War


Or, maybe its that you disagree with the term 'amazing'? At the very least we can agree ubisoft can make decent games when they actually try to make a game instead of farming whales for monetization.

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 09:54 AM

 

 
 

I see that you edited your original post out. And then edited the edit out. Can I assume that we're content with pretending that abortion of a post never happened? I mean, why so serious?

 

Protip: Don't take my posts seriously, especially not with some ironic and unintelligible life-lesson. 

 

This is more like it!

 

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 09:58 AM

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 11:13 AM

Really? Are you sure?

I dont think thats disagreeing at all.
 

Or, maybe its that you disagree with the term 'amazing'? At the very least we can agree ubisoft can make decent games when they actually try to make a game instead of farming whales for monetization.

 

Well I was referring to the main bulk of the article which takes the piss out of their big games. I quite like some of the entries into these franchises.



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Posted 04 June 2014 - 11:23 AM

Hunter, on 04 Jun 2014 - 3:13 PM, said:
Well I was referring to the main bulk of the article which takes the piss out of their big games. I quite like some of the entries into these franchises.

Sure. They are fun. Could easily be better. But they are fun. Thats not really what the article is taking the piss out of. It actually openly admits they are inherently fun... but.... How much longer are they going to be fun when they keep reskinning the same game over and over and over and over and over and over again? How long can they keep tricking people into buying the same basic game over and over and over again? How expensive and extensive is the marketing campaign required to keep indoctrinating an ever increasingly aware consumer base going to get before it all collapses?

Its about the factory, not really the product.

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 11:26 AM

If only we all had a shining sense of humour like yours and we could all laugh at this predictable (and lengthy) joke. I probably would derive amusement from this if it wasn't incredibly ironic and the mannerisms akin to beating a dead horse at this point. This topic will probably serve it's purpose of making the same groups laugh at the same types of jokes at the same peoples' expense, then everyone will forget it ever existed until the next time this type of joke is made, rinse and repeat. Thankfully there don't seem to be hostilities in this case, hopefully it remains that way.

Yeah, could we possibly cut this out? This topic (which is already potential flame-bait) will get real old real fast if people start throwing around terms like 'fanboy' just to validate one viewpoint or another, appropriately or otherwise. Nothing about that comment in particular would immediately identify that poster as a Ubisoft fanboy. Perhaps they have an open mind. Perhaps they simply want to play contrarian. Or, perhaps they are simply tired of this egregious back and forth between fanbases over nonsense.

 

I'm just going to head off and write an article about why Mario is crap formatted as a joke and anyone who disagrees is a fanboy with no sense of humour, k?

 

Well maybe I wouldn't call him out on being a fanboy if he didn't insult another company/game series to validate his own viewpoint (which is a common trait of your typical fanboy). Nothing wrong with disagreeing or not finding it funny, but he was basically trying to get a reaction from Ryudo because he thought it was funny.


Edited by Hunter, 04 June 2014 - 11:27 AM.


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Posted 04 June 2014 - 02:26 PM

@Ryudo: I see. Well, the final version of your post certainly reflects that better than the versions preceding it. Your original variant was quite scathing. ;)

 

@Hunter: They made a somewhat legitimate (if incredibly exaggerated) point, drawing attention to the irony of the situation. Your post honestly reads like you're grasping at straws and making assumptions, but whatever. It seems like you're taking the situation far too seriously (which ironically may very well be what that user wanted). 

 

Just bare in mind that leaping into defensive mode because someone slighted a franchise and presuming them a fanboy is also a trait commonly found in fanboys.


 

Assume that every post of mine is sarcastic or made playing devil's advocate.

 

including this one

 


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Posted 04 June 2014 - 02:47 PM

I was merely exaggerating to make the point. What's the saying? 'Take the plank out of your own eye before trying to take the splinter out of your neighbour's eye'?



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Posted 04 June 2014 - 02:48 PM

@Ryudo: I see. Well, the final version of your post certainly reflects that better than the versions preceding it. Your original variant was quite scathing. ;)

 

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