What We Want To See From Ubisoft During Not-E3
E3 2022 is not happening this year, but gaming showcases from the biggest companies are still happening. Ubisoft hasn’t announced its plans just yet, but the company is rumored to have a massive showcase on tap to highlight its future games, and there are many in the works.
Here at GameSpot, editors are sounding off on what they want to see at a potential Ubisoft showcase this summer. Read on for more! Check out the full Not E3 schedule to learn more about this summer’s big gaming events.
Immortals 2, now featuring less handholding
Immortals Fenyx Rising felt like a game that came and went without a great deal of fanfare, so reports that a sequel is in the works came as a pleasant surprise to me as someone who enjoyed that first game. But for as much as Ubisoft was able to effectively create its own Zelda: Breath of the Wild-style game, it had a severe shortcoming in replicating that game’s best quality: It could not stop holding your hand. Whereas BOTW excels in letting you explore and find things for yourself, Immortals insisted upon overwhelming you with icons highlighting every little possible discovery, robbing you of the opportunity to find it for yourself. Should Ubisoft decide to show off the sequel already, I’d love to see some indication that those elements will be toned way back in favor of something more in line with the game that so clearly served as inspiration. It could stand to take a page out of Elden Ring’s book in this regard, too. — Chris Pereira
A Far Cry that shakes things up
Far Cry seems to have a great deal of sales success no matter how stale I think each subsequent sequel is, so this might truly be wishful thinking, but I would love to see a radical new take on Far Cry. Far Cry 2 was a brilliant game, and I had a ton of fun with the many changes introduced in Far Cry 3, but each of the sequels and spin-offs post-Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon have felt far too same-y for my tastes, and I’ve long since grown bored of the rote formula no matter who they cast as the villain. No doubt Far Cry 7 is coming eventually, and while Ubisoft might be inclined to maintain the status quo, I’m only going to get excited if there are signs that it’s truly going to do something as fun and different as the second and third entries in the series. — Chris Pereira