As Ubisoft unveils their plans for the future with a multitude of Assassin’s Creed games are players excited, but many are just as quick to point out that Ubisoft seems too reliant on franchises like AC and Far cry.
Outside of these heavy hitters, there are older Ubisoft titles begging for AAA franchises. Some were unique titles that were never expanded with future games, while others were part of a franchise, but for whatever reason, Ubisoft gave them up. Now that Ubisoft is one of the largest gaming companies in the world with seemingly endless development studios around the world, they can bring back many of their own forgotten gems.
11 Nebula (2008)
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This was intended to be Ubisoft’s answer, exclusive to the PS3, to the popular first-person shooter multiplayer games that flooded the market at the time, such as Duty. At one point, Ubisoft even labeled mist as the Halo killer, but it was sadly buried by its own competition. It was labeled by most players and critics as an average shooter, but far from bad.
Ubisoft has already shown, both before and after mist, that allows them to deliver a solid shooter Far cry games are the best example of this. With the right changes and polishes, a reboot of mist it could easily turn into the company’s next big franchise.
10 Call of Juarez (2006 – 2013)
Despite a few unpleasant entries, Call Of Juarez was a strong series of action games with Call of Juarez gunslinger often considered one of the strongest games in the Old West. The linear arcade-style gameplay was stylish, lively and fun, but that was released in 2013 and other than a port to the Nintendo Switch, the franchise has remained dormant.
With Rockstar shifting focus to Grand Theft Auto VIafter Red Dead Redemption IInow would be the perfect time for Ubisoft to wipe the dust off Call Of Juarez for the current generation of gaming. Action-based westerns still turn out to be eye-catchers with games like Desperados III, Evil Westand Hard West 2 on gamers’ radars.
9 Red Steel (2006 – 2010)
Similar to Call Of Juarez, Red Steel and Red Steel II embraced an arcade game structure and used the motion controls of the Nintendo Wii to live up to that style. Red Steel can be easily brought back with a style more similar to Call of Juarez gunslinger or it could take advantage of the VR systems available today to extend the same ideas as before.
While the first game received mixed reviews, the sequel was praised for its wacky and action-packed style and was considered almost superior. Unfortunately, Red Steel II didn’t sell nearly as well as Ubisoft had hoped, but a potential sequel could be a surprising success if revealed.
8 Starlink: Battle for Atlas (2018)
At a time when toy-to-life games like Disney Infinity and LEGO Dimensions were popular, Starlink: Battle for Atlas was one of the last to do so. Unfortunately, the craze was short-lived and Starlink demonstrated its potential with a unique starfighter game that created its own unique universe, featured dynamic combat, and even had great toy-to-life mechanics.
Unfortunately, starlink and its toys didn’t sell as well as hoped, and it has since become a cult gem. If the toy-to-life aspect was removed and a starlink sequel or reboot improved from what they already excelled at, the series could easily become the spiritual successor franchise to Star Fox which it even crossed.
7 King Kong by Peter Jackson (2005)
The unfortunate truth is that the rights to King Kong by Peter Jackson may not allow it to get a remaster. The rights to the character are now with Warner Bros. Pictures, but that doesn’t stop King Kong of one of the best-executed movie-based games. From playing Adrien Brody’s Jack Driscoll traversing Skull Island to storming the streets of New York City at the turn of the 20th century as Kong, Ubisoft has it covered.
Unfortunately, King Kong by Peter Jackson can only be played on Xbox with backwards compatibility. There isn’t even a port to Steam or UbiSoft Connect, making it difficult to replay without breaking out an old console. It may never get a remaster or remake, but it at least deserves a way for gamers to experience it more than 15 years later.
6 Cold Fear (2005)
There’s just no denying that cold fear was a clone of Resident Evil with its open map of puzzles and even the way the camera is designed. That said, Ubisoft has still made a strong survival horror game, a genre they don’t delve into that much.
It has a well executed concept of being stuck at sea on a ship full of zombies and monsters. Unlike the Resident Evil games, these zombies are fast and wield weapons straight out of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead. if Resident Evil and Empty space games can get remakes, there’s no reason why cold fear cannot receive the same treatment.
5 Tom Clancy’s End War (2009)
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From Ghost Recon until The division until Rainbow SixThe multitude of Tom Clancy games has been a staple of UbiSoft games for years and still is. That’s why it’s surprising that UbiSoft didn’t choose to bring back Tom Clancy’s EndWar trying to monetize the still strong market for real-time strategy games like Age Of Empires or StarCraft.
The current Tom Clancy games have effectively rebooted themselves for the modern age, so EndWar would probably get away with a new interpretation of World War III. The technology has progressed to the point where there could be so many potential vehicles and weapons to use and it’s likely to be a popular revival for fans of the series.
4 Star Wars: Lethal Alliance (2006)
In the lineup of upcoming Star Wars game titles, Ubisoft is confirmed to be developing a new open world Star Wars and that means there is potential to bring back too Star Wars: Lethal Alliance. The reason for deadly alliance forgot that it was exclusive to the overlooked PSP and the Nintendo DS.
As a game it turned out to be a solid mix of Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and Shadows of the Empire mixing melee and shooter combat. With bounty hunters and villains more represented in Star Wars, deadly alliance rebooting for the main canon on main consoles and PC would probably get fans excited.
3 Will Rock (2003)
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With Twisted Sisters I want to rock as main theme, will rock is a rather underrated first-person shooter that offers wild and gory shooter combat à la . mixed demise or Wolfenstein with the dark and twisted Greek mythology related to the god of war franchisee. It’s bizarre, it’s cheesy and goes in downright ridiculous directions, but it’s great to play through.
Unfortunately, similar to King Kong, there is little to no way to play it without finding a working copy of the game for PC, which is rare to find. Ubisoft has their hands on such a hidden gem that can be remastered, recreated, or simply ported to modern systems for more players to experience.
2 Rayman (1995 – 2013)
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There was a time when Rayman was the next major 3D platformer franchise with sequels across multiple generations of consoles. It even rebooted with Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends in the 2010s, but unfortunately Ubisoft seemed to forget this franchise. The spin-off known as Rabbids eventually got his own franchise and crossover with Mario via Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle.
As for Rayman himself, he was left in the dust, apart from a few average mobile games. Rayman has been confirmed to appear in Mario + Rabbids: Sparks Of Hope, but if he is revived in his own game, he has the potential to become one of the best modern 3D platformers. Maybe the partnership with Nintendo will lead to a full Mario/Rayman crossover or some sort of reboot because Rayman games were strong and praised by players and critics alike.
1 Zombie (2012)
First released as a hidden gem on the Nintendo Wii U, ZombieU gained a following for embracing survival horror at a time when zombie games were mostly action games. The difficult puzzles and gameplay mixed with the unique concept that every death is permanent and forces the player to kill their old body which is now a zombie made it an exciting horror game.
Despite the praise and getting ports to PC, Xbox and PlayStation systems, Zombi never got a sequel and with other survival games like Dead Island and Extinguishing light Getting sequels, it’s surprising that Ubisoft hasn’t capitalized on their own zombie goldmine, considering it has a lot of potential on current-generation systems.
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