Ubi wants to make a Clancy MMO News
MMO News by Oli Welsh
Following news that Ubisoft has bought rights to the Tom Clancy name, company boss Yves Guillemot has suggested that the company is interested in making a massively multiplayer game based on the franchise.
"We will be able to adapt the brand to new formats, in particular the MMO format, where the royalties were a big thing holding us back," Guillemot said in a conference call. His comment implies that Ubisoft has been interested in this idea for a while, and that an MMO is near the top of its Clancy wish-list.
Guillemot's comment is further indication that big publishers are now interested in creating MMOs based on their most popular, mass-market brands, and moving away from fantasy content. Activision boss Bobby Kotick kicked around the idea of a Call of Duty MMO some time ago, although Guillemot's words sound more like a serious statement of intent to us.
Guillemot also noted that Ubisoft now has "complete editorial control" over the Clancy universe, which allows for "cross-fertilisation of characters between games, like Super Smash Bros", and could lead to the games publisher becoming "a major player" in film, television and book publishing.
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25/03/08 @ 10:01
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Much as I dislike the political slant of Clancy storylines, there's no denying some kind of unified Splinter Cell/Rainbow Six/Ghost Recon game would be all kinds of great, whether it was MMO or not. I think I'd prefer SP, but if it's an MMO and thus I have to deal with whining american teenagers, I can do that, safe in the knowledge that I'd be able to sidle up to them in the dark and gut them before they ever knew I was there. That would be a fine thing.
If Noobisoft now owns exclusive rights to the Tom Clancy name, what will be in its place next time he writes a book? |
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I love the cross fertilisation idea - envisions playing a game where one person has an "EndWar" view while sending in other real life players to infiltrate an area Splinter Cell style, while all the while elsewhere a bunch of mates are following orders to seize a position ala GRAW2 to enable Rainbow Six squaddies to infiltrate a building which holds the enemy EndWar style commander....
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@ Baronen - "seems like little more than a content update."
Yeah - tbh it is actually an improvement in a lot of areas - especially if, like me, you came up through the original Rainbows and RS3 on Xbox Live. Some design decisions are imo, pleasingly more hardcore than I expected. Hope you enjoy it. Just don't try and play a ranked game... the gameplay experience is akin to a badly drawn flick book. ;) |
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MouzerMalti
25/03/08 @ 12:26
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If there where three leading Classes: Spy, RainbowSix and normal soldiers. It could be a fine MMO. but they must rely a lot on strategy and a good storyline (like some post-Apocalyptic War).
then again I don't think that they will succeed in making a good MMOFPS, the FPS genre alone needs some gameplay polishing. |
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