A couple of PS3 game announcements

LookingFor

First up, and most excitingly, Ubisoft's 'Assassin's Creed':

Ubisoft’s Award-Winning Montreal Studio Creates New Intellectual Property

Today Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, announced the development of a new video game franchise: Assassin’s Creed. Assassin’s Creed is being developed for PlayStation 3 by an all-star team from Ubisoft’s world-class Montreal studio – the studio responsible for acclaimed franchises such as Prince of Persia and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell. The Assassin’s Creed franchise will combine compelling new gameplay, superb graphics, and an immersive and sophisticated storyline to deliver an epic experience that will launch the action genre into the next generation and beyond.

“Assassin’s Creed is going to push the video game experience as we know it today into an entirely new direction,” said Yannis Mallat, chief executive officer at Ubisoft’s Montreal studio. “Assassin’s Creed’s compelling theme and storyline experienced through the next-generation console will captivate audiences and affect them on the same level as an epic novel or film.”

The first game in the Assassin’s Creed franchise is set in 1191 AD, when the Third Crusade was tearing the Holy Land apart. Shrouded in secrecy and feared for their ruthlessness, the Assassins intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. Players, assuming the role of the main character Altair, will have the power to throw their immediate environment into chaos and to shape events during this pivotal moment in history.

Ubisoft has a strong record of creating some of the industry’s top-selling video game franchises and anticipates that Assassin’s Creed will experience the same success.

“Ubisoft has established itself as a creative force in the video game industry by developing new intellectual property and turning it into multimillion-unit selling brands,” said Serge Hascoet, chief creative officer at Ubisoft. “Our goal to introduce three new brands into the marketplace every two years is working. With Assassin’s Creed we’re introducing a franchise that will establish itself as the must-have next-generation game for the next-generation gamer.”

The first game in the Assassin’s Creed franchise will make its worldwide debut at E3 in Los Angeles and will be available to consumers in 2007. For more information and the trailer, please visit www.assassinscreed.com.

The official site is here:

http://assassinscreed.uk.ubi.com/

There's a trailer, but it mostly seems like CG. There's a bit in the middle that could be in-game, though, with the guy scaling up over the ledge and attacking a soldier, and if it is, it's quite :eek:

Another announcement - somewhat less excitingly, Sega has announced a sequel to Full Auto exclusively for PS3:

http://www.sega.com/e3/2006/announcements_tp.php?item=pr_20060502a

Hopefully they can improve on the original. I didn't play it, but it seemed to get a mixed reception.

qz

That just looks, wow. Had to watch it twice.

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Here's one more, for PS3 & 360:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6148758.html

Announced today for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Army of Two is an action game with a focus on cooperative work and coordinated strategies. Players will have to join up with the game's Partner Artificial Intelligence (PAI) or other players "to fight through war, political turmoil and a conspiracy so vast it threatens the entire world." Story details are vague at the moment, but the game does involve conflicts with private military corporations.

Apparently it takes context from "current headlines" i.e. it'll feature modern day scenarios and settings.

Plug

Will be one of the best selling games for the ps3........GTA IV:D
It,s offical not some mupet making up bullsh!t. I read somewhere there going to look out of america and into europe, If this is true London will possibly be the main city, though it,s not comfirmed:(

projectmayhem

Plug wrote:

Will be one of the best selling games for the ps3........GTA IV:D
It,s offical not some mupet making up bullsh!t. I read somewhere there going to look out of america and into europe, If this is true London will possibly be the main city, though it,s not comfirmed:(

well the location is unconfirmed, but london would be useless since we've all played the getaway.

there's a lot of talk of an asian city. there's also talk of more then 1 city (a-la SA, only rather then 1 state, it'll be different nations you fly to). rumoured are Tokyo and Amsterdam... but this is just chatter, rather then concrete information

GrumPy

Plug wrote:

Will be one of the best selling games for the ps3........GTA IV:D

and the 360, if not more, considering the 360 is €200 cheaper, and have gta too.