After the Summer Game Fest 2022 a few weeks ago, the month of July still seems to be loaded with announcements on the video game side. This is particularly the case for Skull and Bones, presented soon by Ubisoft.
[Mis à jour le 6 juillet 2022 à 15h19] Yaarr! The pirates are back. Ubisoft recently announced that it has chosen July 7 for the presentation of Skull and Bones, its original creation immersed in the heart of the world of piracy at the end of the Renaissance. Finally, privateers and other buccaneers have never really gone far, despite the fact that Skull and Bones has undergone a complicated development since its announcement at E3 in 2017. The title now developed by Ubisoft Singapore was originally planned for the third quarter of 2022, and remains announced for the second part of the studio’s fiscal year, namely still October 2022 and March 2023. Last I heard, Skull and Bones will be a third-person tactical action adventure game , putting you in the shoes of a customizable ship captain. We take stock of everything we know about the game a little further down in this article.
Ubisoft finally planned to reveal its next original title Skull and Bones during a live broadcast on Youtube scheduled for July 7, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. (French time). Developed by Ubisoft Singapore, the game should finally offer us some gameplay images and enough to feed our expectations before its release. For the moment, the only images of the game that may have been seen (very briefly) on the web were six minutes from gameplay of what seemed to be his tutorial. There is no doubt that this Thursday’s presentation will contain more images and information to put in the golden tooth. You can view the presentation of the game live above or on the YouTube page Ubisoft official.
Few information that has managed to escape Ubisoft wedges about Skull and Bones. The development of the game had initially started in 2013, as a solo then multiplayer of the Reveré Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. According Kotaku, the game underwent many changes during its creation, both in terms of its realization and its gameplay. Chaotic and expensive development, described by a Ubisoft employee as “a classic case of bad management for eight years“Which would have cost Ubisoft more than $ 120 million according to the American video game investigation newspaper.
The game would have married in turn different concepts, that of a game of naval battles, a survival game on dry land or even an amphibious adventure in the manner of Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag. As for the current state of the game, Mystery Mystery, although it is known that it will feature a single-player campaign in addition to a multiplayer player versus player mode. According to reports from some respected insiders, the game will consist of exploration, ship management, and naval combat. No mention has been made of hand-to-hand combat or boarding battles as of yet, much to the chagrin of many fans.
As for a release date, we told you in the introduction but nothing is still engraved in the rock on the side of Ubisoft. The game has experienced chaotic development, a hand in hand since 2013 before finishing as the first major Ubisoft Singapore project. Decision -makers that have led to a strong game period, announced for the first time at the 2017 E3 show. But for the moment, Skull and Bones is still planned for the second half of the current fiscal year of Ubisoft , understand the end of 2022 in early 2023. The presentation of gameplay of this Thursday could well answer precisely the questions about the release date of the game.