E3 2018 Press Conference: Ubisoft

Ubisoft had a pretty solid press conference, but there were only 2 games that really interest me, so this will be another relatively short post.

The games/announcements:

Just Dance 2019
Beyond Good & Evil 2
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Documentary & Competitions
Trials Rising
Tom Clancy's The Division 2
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Donkey Kong Country
Skull & Bones
Transference
Starlink - Battle for Atlas
For Honor Free Starter Edition & Marching Fire
The Crew 2 (+ open beta)
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Okay, who the hell keeps buying Just Dance so that Ubisoft keeps making it? I simply don't understand.

Beyond Good & Evil 2 was announced last year with an awesome trailer (actually the last trailer of Ubisoft's 2017 E3 press conference, if I remember correctly). This time we've got even more sweet cinematics. If the game will be half as awesome as the stuff they've shown - it'll be beyond good. I'm also interested in how the community involvement will turn out, as they asked everybody to contribute to the game through Joseph Gordon-Levitt's HitRecord platform.

The second game I'm really interested in is Transference. Okay, I'll admit, I'm interested in everything VR. But after this year's trailer - which gave me literally goosebumps - I'm more excited than before for this game.

That's it for me. Most people probably want me to mention Assassin's Creed Odyssey, but it's just not my type of game. With the exception of the Gamescom demo of AC Origins I've never played any of the games of this series and probably never will.

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