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E3 2016: Ubisoft announce open-world sports game Steep, show off Watch Dogs 2 gameplay and unveil Star Trek VR
Ubisoft has announced Steep, an open-world extreme sports game at its E3 2016 showcase. Steep is set across the Alps and allows players to take part in a variety of extreme sporting events such as base-jumping, parachuting, skiing and snowboarding. The demo showed a multiplayer race as players in wing-suits zipped own the face of the mountains. Steep will be released in December for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
Virtual Reality played a role in the showcase, with the multiplayer bird simulator Eagle Flight played on-stage by Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey. There was also a reveal for Star Trek: Bridge Crew, a VR recreation of the bridge of the USS Aegis, in which you and three friends can take control.
But arguably Ubisoft’s most interesting game of the show was Grow Up, a delightful looking sequel to the platform-adventure Grow Home in which you control cute red robot Bud as he tries to oxygenate his home planet.
Ubisoft also used the conference to show off gameplay for its already announced titles and reveal release dates. Watch Dogs 2 had a lengthy gameplay video, following new protagonist Marcus Holloway around San Francisco bay as he infiltrates the party of a target for his hacker group DedSec. Another big-budget open-world game, Ghost Recon Wildlands was shown, as a group of four players coordinate attacks on a drug lord across a huge freeform map set in Bolivia. Wildlands is released 17 March 2017.
For Honor got a single-player mode, as legendary warrior Apolion battles against armoured foes in a meaty melee combat game and, romantically, will be out on Valentine’s Day 2017. South Park: The Fractured But Whole is a sequel to the well-received Stick of Truth and is again penned and performed by the show’s creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.