The 2021 edition of the E3 show, an annual highlight of the video game industry, virtually opened its doors on Saturday.
And the French publisher Ubisoft did not hesitate to present, during a one-hour conference, its next projects.
On the program: a game in the universe of the movie
Avatar
, a sequel to the collaboration with Nintendo
Mario and the Raving Rabbids
, an alien invasion in the world of
Rainbow Six
, an expansion in France for
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
, but also an interactive method to learn the guitar ... Here are the main announcements of this conference.
Avatar: Frontier of Pandora
(2022)
In 2017, Ubisoft announced that it had entered into a partnership with James Cameron to adapt the universe of the film
Avatar
into a video game
.
Since then, no image of the project had filtered.
This long period of silence is now over.
Developed in Sweden by Ubisoft Massive (
The Division
),
Avatar: Frontier of Pandora
will be released in 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC and cloud gaming services Google Stadia and Amazon Luna.
Mario and the Raving Rabbids: Sparks of Hope
(2022)
Also in 2017, Ubisoft revealed another prestigious collaboration:
Mario and the Raving Rabbids
, developed by Ubisoft Milan and Paris under the supervision of Nintendo.
This meeting between two emblematic video game licenses gave birth the same year to an excellent tactical game exclusive to the Nintendo Switch.
Read also: Mario and the Raving Rabbids: behind the scenes of the exceptional collaboration between Nintendo and Ubisoft
A sequel,
Sparks of Hope
, is in development and will be released on Nintendo Switch in 2022. The title makes many nods to Mario Galaxy, with the arrival of Rabbit Harmony and an adventure through space. .
Rainbow Six Extraction
(September 16, 2021)
It must have been called
Quarantine
.
For fairly obvious reasons, the new installment of the
Rainbow Six
tactical online gaming saga
, which was unveiled in 2019, has been renamed to
Extraction
.
Rather than confronting terrorists, the players, members of the special forces, will have to face an alien invasion taking the form of an aggressive parasite transforming humans into hostile creatures ...
Far Cry 6
(October 7, 2021)
Ubisoft has already shown a lot of
Far Cry 6
, which was originally slated for release in February.
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on production schedules has forced the publisher to postpone the marketing of this title to October 7, 2021.
The video unveiled at the conference did not show the game as such, but the big bad of the new episode of this saga, Anton Castillo.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla: The Siege of Paris
(Summer 2021)
Cocorico and hand on heart: the second paid expansion for
Assassin's Creed Valhalla will
take place in France.
It will take as its theater the siege of Paris by the Vikings, which took place from 885 to 887. This DLC will be released this summer.
Ubisoft also announces that new extensions of Assassin's Creed Valhalla will be released in 2022. What to wait before the probable future episode of the most powerful license of the French publisher.
Rocksmith + (release date unknown)
Radical change of mood with Rocksmith +.
This is an interactive method for learning to play guitar (dry or electric) or bass.
Rocksmith + offers a vast library of music in various genres (rock, metal, pop, R'nB ...), with arrangements more or less easy to master.
The player can use his smartphone as a microphone, or connect his guitar to his PC using a jack-USB cable.
Thus, the game will be able to "listen" to its performance and help it improve.
The player will be able to slow down the melody, repeat difficult passages in a loop, access a library of video advice ...
Available on PC and smartphone, Rocksmith + will be available for a monthly subscription.
Its release date is unknown.