For their debut effort with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, Ubisoft tried something different that worked in one case (the console game) but not in another (the criminally bad DS game). Though it was wise for Ubisoft to differentiate their take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise from what came before, there was still a lot of…
Up until 2007, all of the video games in the long running Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise we’re handled by Konami, but after a failed return to form with some mediocre games based on the 2003 animated series reboot, the Japanese publisher let the rights expire to be picked up by Ubisoft. Under the direction on Konami,…
Before Activision picked up the license, Ubisoft was the last company making Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games from 2007’s TMNT through to 2009’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack. It seems that despite not making games based on the Turtles that there is no love lost for the property from Ubisoft. In the ongoing beta for the upcoming Tom Clancy’s The Division, players…
2003 was an important year for Ubisoft. After launching one of the most prestigious franchises in the stealth genre one year early with the release of the then Xbox exclusive Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, they tried to launch not one, not two, but three potential new franchises in the fall of ’03 with their major releases: Prince of Persia: The Sands of…
June is here and we’re a just a few measly weeks from the release of Rocksteady and WB Games closing chapter in the Arkham saga: Batman: Arkham Knight. Over the past year to keep my mind off of the constant delays this game has undergone in the road to becoming the best possible product it can be, I’ve…
Thanks (or no thanks, depending on how you look at it) to Sega, every one of the Marvel Phase One films launched alongside a promotional video game that landed on nearly every single device at the time, save one. While Sega had each of the solo heroes rights tied up to make games for, when…
With Batman: Vengeance, Ubisoft tried to mold too many genres into one game; It was part plat-former, part fighter, a first-person shooter at points, as well as a driving and flying game. For the follow-up in 2003, Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Ubisoft took a far more basic approach to the design and the finished…
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