This is a bit of a weird one, Ubisoft have sold five of their old games to Atari who will now re-publish them on new platforms. The games are Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up. Atari seem to think that money can be made porting them over to the likes of PS5 and Switch 2, something Ubisoft either did not consider or did not think would be profitable.
“Millions of players have experienced these worlds over the years, and this will open the door for long time players to revisit those memories while inviting new audiences to discover them for the first time,” said Deborah Papiernik, Vice President of New Business. “Atari has a rich gaming legacy and deep appreciation for these classic titles, we’re excited to see how they’ll evolve and connect with players in fresh, meaningful ways.”
Of those games, I Am Alive may be the most famous as it was in development for seven years and switched developers from Darkworks to Ubisoft Shanghai halfway through that period. Released on PS3 and Xbox 360 the game featured a distinctive colour scheme that was almost all grey. The survival adventure takes place after a cataclysmic disaster that has wiped out most of humanity and reduced cities to rubble, and it was one of the best-selling games of 2012.
Cold Fear I had to Google and it’s a 2005 action game which Darkworks also developed. Set on a Russian whaling ship you play as Tom Hansen, a member of the United States Coast Guard, tasked with stop an alien parasite infection before the ship reaches land. That does some vaguely familiar I think I played that on PS2.
Child of Eden was developed by Q Entertainment back when Ubisoft dived head first in to any new hardware release, in this case Kinect and PlayStation Move. The on-the-rails shooter featured trippy visuals and an excellent electronic music score.
Grow Home and its sequel, Grow Up, are the most recent titles to be released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Both feature a robot named B.U.D. (Botanical Utility Droid) in an adveture platformer.
Source: Businesswire
