New Driver and Rabbids games on the way

By Ellie Gibson Published 14 January, 2010

They'll be here by April next year.

The final bit of business revealed by Ubisoft's financial report is that new instalments in two of its best-selling franchises are on the way.

First up is Raving Rabbids 4, as it's currently titled. Looks like this will be one of Ubi's few casual offerings as the company moves to focus more on Xbox 360 and PS3.

In addition, a new instalment in the Driver series is on the way. There's no name for it yet. Driv5r? Perhaps not.

Both games are due out in the next financial year, which means they'll hit the shops some time before April 2011.

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  • Tomo #1 2 years ago

    DriVer surely?

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #2 2 years ago

    First up is Raving Rabbids 4, as it's currently titled. Looks like this will be one of Ubi's few casual offerings as the company moves to focus more on Xbox 360 and PS3.

    Not if it's for Natal, it won't be.

  • Bealsy #3 2 years ago

    Knowing Ubisoft it will be DrIvEr RaBBiD P@ntz Parteee FIVE

  • SYS64738 #4 2 years ago

    April 2011 eh. I really wanted to know though what's out in August 2027. I MUST know! NOW!

  • Murton #5 2 years ago

    I heard Half Life Episode 3 may be ready for 2027. (switch HL Ep 3 for Alan Wake or GT5 depending on your platform of choice)

    Joking aside, Driver should be interesting as they've reopened Reflections in Newcastle and got a lot of the original team back from what I've heard. Hopefully with Ubisoft's money and resources they'll be able to make something much better than their previous offerings, I can't quite put my finger on it but there's always been something missing from Driver, it had the potential to challenge GTA as a crime/car game but just never realised it.

  • VicViper #6 2 years ago

    well rabbits go home seemed to review well and if they can translate that maddess/out of control feeling to the 360 natal or otherwise I would be interested.

  • benjymous #7 2 years ago

    @Murton - Reflections never closed, they just changed hands from Atari to Ubisoft

  • Murton #8 2 years ago

    benjymous: odd, I'm from the area and I'd heard that they closed a while back, it's been a long time since they made anything of note. Maybe they just really scaled back their operations to barely existent, I'm not completely sure.

  • SYS64738 #9 2 years ago

    "I heard Half Life Episode 3 may be ready for 2027."

    Things have been really quiet about Ep3 so that I completely forgot about it. By the time it gets out I'll need to replay the whole series to remember what it was all about.

  • Zebula77 #10 2 years ago

    Hmm, a new Driver game? Interesting, but they had better bring back the director mode. Easily the best feature of the series. I mean, Driver 3 was an awful game, but I spent hours and hours making little car chase movies that ended up somewhat cool.

    If they introduced a souped-up director mode, I'd certainly buy the next Driver. (and hopefully it won't be so bloody hard - I remember the last mission of Driver 1 as pretty much the toughest thing I've ever completed).

  • SYS64738 #11 2 years ago

    Driv3r "drove" me up the wall.

    What a broken game that was. I returned it within the same afternoon (I think this was one of the cases where the reviews took an awful long time to appear, and I couldn't wait to get it as I loved Driver 1 and liked Driver 2).

  • BBIAJ #12 2 years ago

    Completed all the Driver games across the main consoles, so can't wait for this one, assuming that it's coming to the Xbox 360.

    Oh, and Reflections never died, they worked with Sumo Digital on Driver '76 for the PSP under UbiSoft.

    Off I go to get Driver on me iPod, and then on PSP via PSN once my bigger memory card turns up.

  • mkreku #13 2 years ago

    Good news! I will definitely look out for a new Driver. I had great fun with the underrated Driver: Parallel Lines!

  • drunkymonkey #14 2 years ago

    The first two Drivers hold special places in my heart.

    I hope this new one is actually decent.

  • neonemesis #15 2 years ago

    Driver needs to be more like the PS1 games and less like the PS2 versions which tried to 'do' GTA with guns and on-foot missions. The fun of speeding around and smashing into other cars was eliminated also with the implementation of a health bar for your character.

  • smelly #16 2 years ago

    EVERYONE BUY RABBIDS GO HOME!! ITS BLOODY BRILLIANT!!


    I want to see more of that type of game, and less of the mini games please...

  • JamieR #17 2 years ago

    The only Driver game that was ever good was the first one and that was good then only. making another is madness complete madness at least use another name the title already makes me not want it and i know nothing of it.

  • Slipstream #18 2 years ago

    With the sand-box car jackng market being so-so at the moment, Ubi have the opportunity to put Driver back on the map.
    Of course we have Crackdown 2 and Mafa II in the works, but the new Driver (assuming development started late last year, or this year) can't be set for this year and be expected to compete seriously, surely.

    Back when it was launched on the PSX it had ambition and style, would be good if Ubi could recapture that essense.

  • metalangel #19 2 years ago

    How on earth is the Drivel series still going? The original was infuriating and shoddy at best, the second and third were like bad jokes in their depths of awfulness and the series hasn't really improved from that. This is Reflections, though, who made Stuntman (shit) and Destruction Derby (shallow shit).

  • smelly #20 2 years ago

    @metalangel : Destruction derby was miles ahead of it's time. So was the original driver, which pretty much did GTA before gta did it. When driver first came out it blew my mind.

  • Zebula77 #21 2 years ago

    The first Driver was excellent when it first arrived. Played it again after downloading from PSN, and it hasn't aged well. At all. Still, if they recreate San Fransisco and give us loads of heavy, wobbly muscle cars with obnoxiously loud, throaty engines it could still be worth a blast. I wanna recreate that awesome car chase from Bullitt, dammit.