Here is a breakdown of Ubisoft’s press conference at E3 2017! What a great conference. I bolded the segments I thought were important.
58:36- Start of Conference
59:06- Rabbids and Mario intro
59:53 Yves Guillemont, cofounder and CEO, comes on stage announced Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
1:00:26- Shigeru Miyamoto comes out with a model weapon from game YESSS
1:01:30- THEY BOTH HAVE WEAPONS YEAHHH
1:01:51- They talk a lot…
1:05:50- Xavier Manzanares, producer, talks about the game
1:06:42- Gameplay trailer. Turn by turn based tactics combat. Okay, NOW I’m interested. Nintendo Switch exclusive coming August 29, 2017
1:12:00- Mario + Rabbids E3 trailer
1:14:10- Ashraf Ismail, game director of Assassin’s Creed Origins, comes on stage to talk about the game
1:16:11- Assassin’s Creed Origins E3 trailer
1:18:10- Gameplay on a monitor… with no game capture… okay. Game comes out October 27, 2017
1:19:55- The Crew 2 reveal E3 trailer, motorsports game (racecars, boats, airplanes, dirt bikes, and four wheelers)
1:22:45- Stephan Beley comes on stage to talk about The Crew 2
1:24:16- Gameplay Trailer… Coming early 2018 (sign up for beta access at thecrewgame.com/beta)
1:28:42- South Park: The Fracture But Whole E3 Trailer
1:30:32- Transference Reveal trailer coming Spring 2018, VR title?
1:32:49- Skull & Bones Reveal trailer, Yay more Assassin’s Creed 4 ship combat!
1:36:27- Justin Farren, Creative Director, comes on stage to talk about the game
1:38:07- Pre-alpha gameplay trailer (PVP mode)
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1:43:46- Another trailer coming out Fall 2018
1:44:31- Just Dance 2018 performance coming October on everything INCLUDING WII
1:47:39- South Park: Phone Destroyer reveal trailer. New mobile game. Coming 2017
1:48:49 Starlink: Battle for Atlus reveal trailer. New toys-to-life game coming out fall 2018 on Xbox One, PS4, and Switch
1:51:06- Matt Rose, producer, comes on stage to talk about the game
1:52:39- Rebecka Coutaz, studio director, talks about Steep expansion Road to the Olympics
1:54:25- Road to the Olympics trailer coming December 5, 2017
1:55:50- Farcry 5 trailer
1:57:00- Dan Hay, Creative Director, talks about the game
1:58:10- Farcry 5 Gameplay Trailer
2:01:12- Beyond Good & Evil 2 reveal trailer
2:05:25- Michel Ance, creative director, and Gabrielle Shrager, narrating director, talk about the game. Register for the space monkey program @bgegame.com
2:09:00- End of Conference
Ubisoft had a very well balanced conference. They announced new IP (Skull and Bones looks amazing!) I certainly thought was interesting as well as unexpected surprises such as Beyond Good & Evil 2. I am a sucker for the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry series, so I am glad there are more games coming out. Overall, the pacing of the presentation was fantastic, revealing new games with awesome trailers and gameplay while showing a little less of the smaller expansions and already-announced games. I would say they definitely improved over last year’s conference. What games from Ubisoft are you most excited for? Tweet at me @bland725 to let me know. I have done breakdowns of other conferences (EA, Microsoft, and Bethesda), and I will be doing a breakdown of Sony and Nintendo as well.
