E3 ‘09: Ubisoft press conference highlights

Monday evening brought the much-anticipated Ubisoft press conference, hosted by The Soup’s Joel McHale. (I plan on putting together a highlight reel of McHale’s best moments, which I’ll share with you soon.) Take a look at a just few of the highlights.

Red Steel II shows a completely new art style and narrative direction. It’s also made to work with the new Wii Motion Plus. Take a look.

A very special and unexpected treat arrived in the form of legendary film director James Cameron, who was on hand to talk about his anticipated film Avatar, and the game Ubisoft is making to accompany it. Ubisoft is branching out into film effects in addition to game making, and Avatar is the first film to take advantage of the studio’s talents, as Cameron explains. Cameron also gives a detailed synopsis of the until-now top secret Avatar storyline.

Unfortunately, my video ran out of battery power (no jabs, please — this was the third back-to-back press conference of the day!) after the Red Steel demo, and I wasn’t able to capture the Rabbids Go Home demo. But it looked really fun — more of a platformer/Mario kind of gameplay through different levels than the minigames the prior Rabbids games are known for.

For Assassin’s Creed II demo footage, see the Sony press conference.