INTERVIEW ALAIN CORRE, UBISOFT
Assassin’s Creed Unity is one of Ubisoft’s biggest games of 2014
But it is just the beginning of these consoles, so with time – starting next year – things will be easier. “And it’s not as difficult, say, as PlayStation 3 was. “Going forward we should reuse
more things. Today, we will create a car in one studio, and we don’t reuse that car in any other games. We need to make sure we can reuse items that people won’t care
Indeed, Ubisoft has been discovering a few things about the movie industry since it launched its Motion Pictures Division, which is currently working on films based on its Rabbids, Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Watch Dogs, Ghost Recon and Far Cry franchises. And those learnings include the
ability of the film industry to finish their movies months before they’re due to hit cinemas. “What we see more and more is
The console transition has been harder. There are so many things you can do, so many possibilities.
Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft
about. That is one direction we can take to optimise the investment. “Another thing is to have a
budget – like in the movie industry – that has lots of elements in it, before we greenlight a game. So we make choices early on in terms of where we put the money. We will improve the efficiency.”
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that we need time to do even more polish than what we do today,” continues Guillemot. “We were tweaking Watch Dogs right until the last minute, we changed some things right at the end. So what we have decided to do is finish the game earlier so that we can test things more and more and change a certain number of parameters.”
OPEN PLAN Ubisoft’s upcoming core games – The Crew, Watch Dogs, Assassin’s Creed, The Division and Far Cry – all represent the firm’s love of the open world. All of these titles invite fans to explore and are rammed with things to do outside of the main story.
05 CHASING RAINBOWS
THE big announcement at E3 this year from Ubisoft was Rainbow Six: Siege. The title is a new entry in the series and sees a group of gamers rescuing hostages while the other tries to stop them. And the long-in-development Rainbow Six: Patriots is no more. “We were not very happy
with what we had, and we had to rethink it. Siege is what we had in mind,” says Ubisoft’s EMEA executive director Alain Corre. “The intensity is now back in
the game, like it used to be. In terms of multiplayer, it’s clearly one of our most promising titles for next year.”
Yet surely scrapping Patriots and starting again would have been a costly decision? “We have to respect our
brands because the fans are expecting something very good with every new iteration,” adds Corre. “When we are not satisfied we have to go back to the drawing board; there’s no other choice. We want to protect our franchises and communities, and the only way to do that is to offer a high quality product. When we’re not at that level, we hide, and when we are very proud of what we have, we are happy to show it in public, which is what we did with Rainbow Six Siege at E3.”
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