What Happened to Heroes of Might and Magic, or Biggest Ubisoft IPs We're Slowly Forgetting
Ubisoft is showering us with new brands and an increasingly diverse catalog of games. It's just that instead of items like XDefiant or Hyper Scape, we'd probably prefer a return of Heroes or Rayman. Here are 10 big franchises that Ubisoft could resurrect.
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- What Happened to Heroes of Might and Magic, or Biggest Ubisoft IPs We're Slowly Forgetting
- Heroes of Might and Magic
- Splinter Cell
- Rayman
- Tom Clancy's HAWX
- Prince of Persia
- Silent Hunter
- Brothers in Arms
- Ghost Recon
- Rainbow Six - singleplayer campaign
Rainbow Six - singleplayer campaign
- Genre: tactical shooter
- How long are we waiting: 17 years (14 if you're a Vegas fan) - Siege and Extraction don't count
Rainbow Six is another game that you don't have to wait for, because Siege's servers are doing well and there are plenty of players. But an online shooter is not the same as a full-fledged single-player story campaign. This mode was even supposed to appear in Siege , except that the idea was later scrapped - only one mission remained as the end of the tutorial. The first part of R6 was created together with the Tom Clancy novel, thanks to which its campaign had a really solid foundation. Later versions - Rogue Spear and Raven Shield with their additions - were also very good in this respect, without abandoning the realistic gameplay with extensive mission planning option.
Only the next parts of Vegas from 2006 and 2008, intended mainly for consoles, greatly simplified this element. These were typical action games, deviating from their tactical roots and Tom Clancy's prose.
The next part of the R6 was actually announced then and aroused very high emotions from the very beginning. Rainbow Six: Patriots was supposed to be the darkest, most serious game in the series. The plot was to involve an extremely dangerous terrorist organization operating in the USA, seeking to overthrow the government accused of corruption. The players would have to make difficult moral choices , decide about the lives of the hostages, and the gameplay was to be very intense.
And, unfortunately, it turned out to be too intense and emotional, too authentic, in addition, right after the most poignant reports of the war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan and the news of local ultra-rightists threatening to attack President Obama. Despite the game being advanced in development, Ubisoft deleted it and used the remaining assets in Siege - an item that ultimately turned out to be an online shooter similar to Counter Strike .
Any news of a singleplayer R6 campaign would strike gold. It isn't such an abstract idea - just look at the enormous popularity of Ready or Not, which has a standing place in Steam's charts. Ready or Not is a spiritual successor to the SWAT series, but the gameplay of it and the old R6 was quite similar - the only differences being the scope of operations. A small studio has shown that today it is possible to create a game with well-functioning artificial intelligence, both for allies, as well as opponents and civilians. If they managed to do it, Ubisoft can do it even better. But they would have to give up childlish humor, strange personalization options and focus on authenticity and credibility. To make something that Ubisoft was known for - then.
