Those look like Stormtroopers, so this
must be Battlefront II, but the explosions
speak of Michael Bay.
Creed game in the form of Origins, which takes the
story back to ancient Egypt, and the expected Far
Cry 5 reveal, which moves the series to the state
of Montana but keeps the basic formula intact, for
better or worse. One unexpected announcement
was Pirate game Skull & Bones, apparently putting
the ship combat mechanics from Assassin’s Creed
IV: Black Flag to good use. Oh, and we finally got
a new release date for South Park: The Fractured
But Whole, a name that doesn’t get any funnier no
matter how many times you say it.
bethesda
The Bethesda conference was a strange affair, replete
with twee animations in a styled ‘Bethesdaland’
video. Most of what they had to show was a little
underwhelming - there are VR-ready versions
of Fallout 4 and Skyrim on the way, along with
a Doom VR experience entitled Doom VFR.
No prizes for guessing what the S stands for. A
Dishonored DLC was revealed, which sees us once
again donning the boots and trenchcoat of Imperial
Assassin Daud, and a follow-up to Shinji Mikami’s
Evil Within looks to be full of horror, blood, and
yogurt, for some reason. Machine Games stole the
show with the announcement of Wolfenstein II:
The New Colossus, which embraces the weirder
aspects of the previous game, moves the story over
to America, and includes a wheelchair FPS section.
Assassin’s Creed: Origins features Pyramid-sliding...
...and Far Cry 5 features dogs with assault rifles.
Evil Within 2 will potentially feature some epic
nosebleeds.
UBISOFT
Foregoing the tradition of shoving foul-mouthed
Aisha Tyler on stage for its press Conference,
Ubisoft instead handed over the reins to the
implausibly French Yves Guillemot. The company
delivered a solid showing, revealing a new Assassin’s
Where Ubisoft truly surprised wasn’t with the reveal
of a new Rabbids game, a Mario-crossover that had
been leaked before the event, but with the fact that
Yves Guillemot dragged Mario creator Shigeru
Miyamoto up on stage, brandishing an arm-cannon
straight from the Mario & Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
game. Even stranger, the game - which features
Rabbids dressing up as Mario characters - is taking
the form of an XCOM style turn-based, tactical
shooter.
And just in case things weren’t weird enough,
Ubisoft also teased the audience with a new trailer
for Beyond Good & Evil 2, a sequel that’s already 15
years in the making.
www.eliteonlinemag.com
193