Rumor: Ubisoft working on an FPS for the Revolution

November 16th, 2005, 02:37 Posted By: wraggster

Source: Reports on Spanish and German gaming sites claim to have received confirmation that Ubisoft is working on a first-person shooter for the Revolution.

The official story: "It's Ubisoft's policy to not comment on rumors." - Ubisoft spokesperson

What we heard: Upon hastily throwing these sites into the Google translation tool, we were beyond thrilled to read about Ubisoft's new project and "the juiceable scope it concerns." Ok, so the translation's not perfect, but the basics come through loud and clear: Ubi's working on a first-person shooter using the Nintendo Revolution controller, and the company has its talented Montreal studio (Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell series) working on the project.

Those with fingers crossed hoping that this one turns out to be not bogus have some reason to be hopeful. With its pointerlike functionality, the Revolution controller seems tailor-made for an FPS, and Ubisoft has shown Nintendo's current-gen GameCube console more FPS support than almost any other publisher with its Rainbow Six games.

On the other hand, the Spanish-language site (with the more-detailed of the two reports) says production on the game has been entrusted to "Ubisoft Canada." That would be problematic, as Ubisoft Canada doesn't actually make games. Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Quebec are the company's two development studios north of the border. Ubisoft Canada doesn't even oversee the two studios; it merely handles the local publishing, distribution, marketing, and other such concerns for the French publisher. Then again, such details could easily have been lost in translation.

As you might expect, Ubi's keeping mum on the subject. But given that the Rev's controller practically begs to be incorporated into an FPS, it seems entirely likely that Ubisoft (and numerous other companies) has Revolutionary designs for the genre in the works.

Bogus or not bogus?: The specifics of this particular rumor may be bogus (especially the bit about the juiceable scope), but there's no reason to be bummed, because a bevy of Revolution FPS games is almost certainly not bogus.

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