Re: New Splinter Cell game in the works at Ubisoft's new Toronto studio
- From: The alMIGHTY N <natlee75@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 07:06:45 -0700 (PDT)
On May 27, 7:36 pm, "Nick Soapdish, Jr." <JGordon...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 27, 7:23 am, BoodyBandit <allaboutga...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 26, 2:51 pm, The alMIGHTY N <natle...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The lovely and talented Jade Raymond, formerly the producer for
Assassin's Creed, is now the managing director of Ubisoft's new
Toronto studio, whose staff is made up mostly of the people from the
Montreal studio she worked with in the aforementioned game. She
revealed that her new studio is entirely responsible for the next
Splinter Cell title (no word on whether it remains an Xbox 360
exclusive) and will work with her former studio to create an
unannounced title that she describes as "triple-A." The new studio has
half a billion Canadian in funding from Ubisoft in addition to $236
million Canadian from the government of Ontario across a ten-year
span.
What I want to know is... where the hell were women who looked like
her when I was in my computer science program in college?!
Yeah Jade is a looker.
Indeed. Remember when some internet douchebag made some online comic
with her in a swimsuit, portraying her as a bimbo trying to sell
Assassin's Creed using her looks? What was almost as toolish was when
some people actually tried defending that guy. No wonder why she was
laying low during the promotion of Assassin's Creed 2 (she was still
the executive producer for AC2). Nothing worse than creepy internet
nerds with an axe to grind, I guess. Although the first Assassin's
Creed was in many ways more of a rough sketch of a AAA title than a
full-fledged one, it was one of the earlier titles to actually provide
a cinematic approach for real time action. So I think she didn't do
too bad a job managing and overseeing a major new franchise for
someone's first high exposure leadership role in the game development
arena. If I remember correctly, wasn't she also a freelance reporter
for one of those G4/TechTV shows?
Yep - she did that after she started working at Ubisoft on the
Assassin's Creed franchise. I can't believe she used to be a computer
programmer. There were maybe a half-dozen women in the entire program
where I studied and most were far from homely.
As far as a new Splinter Cell in the works? MEH!
I don't recall finishing and dropping a game quicker than SCC in the
past couple years. There just isn't nothing worth revisiting. If not
for GR beta I would have dumped it on eBay a few days after I
purchased it.
Could be they'll reboot the series with a new character or new
controls. Who knows.
It all depends on how well Conviction does. I think it will be tough
to look at the changes to the series' signature gameplay style as a
bad thing considering that Conviction is selling at double the rate of
Double Agent.
I wouldn't mind the series continuing with a new character. It's too
bad it can't be Archer and Kestrel from the co-op story - Ubisoft will
need to work pretty hard to come up with an interesting new character
and then find a good voice actor... Ironside has been awesome.
.
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