With 2020 finally here, plenty of anticipated video games are slated to be released this year. Ubisoft, one of the largest video game publishers in the world, has already announced plenty of games that are planned to be released this year.
From Far Cry to Watch Dogs, Ubisoft has always focused on sequels to classic titles while giving new IPs plenty of time to shine. Reboots like Rainbow Six: Siege has shaken up the industry, while games like Far Cry 5 have refined the genre to a great degree. From shooters to action titles, here are all of the Ubisoft titles announced that are coming out sometime in 2020.
8 Watch Dogs: Legion
Watch Dogs has been Ubisoft's attempt at replicating the Grand Theft Auto style of open-world design. That is, allowing the player to cause massive amounts of chaos with unprecedented amounts of freedom.
While the original Watch Dogs didn't nail this design, Watch Dogs: Legion seems to be attempting something that could potentially outshine GTA. Players control multiple members of a resistance force in the campaign, which can be played cooperatively with up to 4 players. The characters you play are more varied than previous games, complete with their own quirks and abilities. This game will live or die off of how engaging this system is, but if done well, the number of chaotic fun players can have will set a new standard in the industry.
7 Gods & Monsters
Little is known of this Greek-based open-world action game, but we know that it is created by the same team who made Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, arguably one of the best Assassin's Creed games due to its massive scale and decision making.
Players will help various Greek gods kill mythical creatures within Greek mythology. The game is slated to be open-world with plenty of dungeons and challenges for players to face. Its unique art style makes the game stand out from more gritty and realistic titles, instead opting for a more artistic, almost painted look to everything. The game is slated to release sometime in Fall of this year.
6 Rainbow Six: Quarantine
Rainbow Six: Siege brought the IP back to the forefront with its amazing innovations to competitive multiplayer, featuring destructible environments and unique characters that have unique abilities for players to use.
Rainbow Six: Quarantine seems to be a PvE focused Rainbow Six title based on the characters from Siege. Those who played during Operation Chimera might remember that Siege had a PvE zombie survival mode before, similar to the likes of Left 4 Dead. You are not mistaken, and it seems that Ubisoft has taken the feedback from that season and applied it to a new video game. Hopefully, it can reinvent the wheel for PvE content as Siege did for PvP competitive play.
5 Roller Champions
With the major success of Rocket League in recent years, developers have tried to find their own ways of replicating that game's magic and easy to learn, hard to master style of gameplay.
Roller Champions is Ubisoft's version of Rocket League. Players work in teams of 3 to claim a ball to throw it into a goal. The enemy team can charge players to take the ball to throw it in their own goal. Speed and coordination are key from the few pieces of gameplay footage shown so far, bringing immediate comparisons to Rocket League and similar titles. Time will tell if this game can take off as Rocket League did, but Roller Champions being free to play will certainly help convince people to give this game a try.
4 The Settlers (2019)
The Settlers fans were quite shocked when Ubisoft announced that they would be rebooting the franchise, preserving the depth and gameplay from the original franchise and expanding on its visual fidelity.
The Settlers was originally a hybrid between Real-Time Strategy titles (or RTS for short) and city-builders like SimCity. Its supply and demand style of gameplay hooked most that tried the older DOS titles, with fans particularly enjoying The Settlers II. With the reboot running in the Snowdrop engine, the same engine used to power The Division games, this title should look both incredible and play well. If Ubisoft can modernize the supply and demand style of gameplay from the originals, this could be a game that can rival the astounding success of the Civilization series.
3 New Assassin's Creed
While nothing concrete has been confirmed for Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft has mentioned in various earnings calls that they are committed to two IP's for 2020 that haven't been announced yet.
If we look at what Ubisoft has done before, we can see that Far Cry and Assassin's Creed are their two largest IPs that receive near-annual releases. With many fans wishing for a Japan setting, Ubisoft might be delivering what fans want in the next unannounced Assassin's Creed title. If we are going to see a new installment, expect it to be announced late spring or early summer, followed by a fall or winter release date.
2 New Far Cry
Similar to Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft has invested heavily in the Far Cry franchise since Far Cry 2. Each installment of the franchise has tried something new and unique to set the FPS title apart from its competition.
As stated before, Ubisoft has mentioned it is invested in two IP's well known that will be announced later this year. If Assassin's Creed is one of them, Far Cry has to be the second IP they are talking about. With Far Cry 5's insane ending, it will be interesting to see where Ubisoft conducts the train of insanity-fueled fun next. Or they might decide to go back to the roots of the series like they are doing with The Settlers. Only time will tell.
1 Beyond Good and Evil 2
Not much has been heard about Beyond Good and Evil 2's development over the past year, with there being a live stream in June showing the game wasn't in complete development hell.
This game is a prequel to the first Beyond Good and Evil, letting players create their own Space Pirate and pilot their own. Critical characters, such as Pey'j and Jade, are still part of the narrative and are critical to the game's story. Seamless open worlds and space travel have been promised so far, making this game a contender to overthrow The Witcher 3 as the best open-world RPG when released. While no definitive release date has been given, it is safe to say that we will at least hear about this game—and potentially get to participate in a beta—before the end of the year.