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[IbizaPocholo]

Notre-Dame on Fire is Ubisoft's next new VR game

"You have to save Notre-Dame"

www.gamesradar.com

Ubisoft has created a new virtual reality escape game focused on escaping the Notre-Dame cathedral when the dreadful fire engulfed it back in 2019.

Called "Notre-Dame on Fire" – which is also the name of a docu-drama by director Jean-Jacques Annaud – the game draws primarily from assets used back in 2014 to create Assassin's Creed Unity. It will release alongside the film in March 2022, although right now, it's not clear what VR platforms the adventure will be available on.

"Like any escape game, it's a question of puzzles and co-operating with your teammates," Ubisoft senior VP Deborah Papiernik told Variety (thanks, The Gamer). "The idea is to make your way through the cathedral to find relics and to fight the fire, because you have to save Notre Dame.

"The fact that we had that access [to the film's screenplay] really nourished our team," Papiernik added, reflecting on how the team responded to the film's screenplay. "That doesn't mean we translated everything to gameplay; rather, it offered our team food for thought for our adaptation."

 

[V1LÆM]

the whole thing is pathetic. it sucked what happened but did they really need to go and make a dramatic movie about it? shame on ubisoft too for making a VR game around it.

i hope any money made from the film/game is going towards restoring the cathedral or to charity? i know ubisoft donated 500,000 euros but i mean what they make from the game. maybe it will be free? wouldn't like to think they're trying to claw some money back....

 

[TransTrender]

Yeah, this is rather tasteless.

 

[Con_Z_ǝdʇ]

Makes you wonder what comes next...

 

[whyman]

Distasteful as fu*k. Ubisoft totally lost it.

 

[Rudius]

They should invest in porting existing games to VR. Their FPS titles are obvious candidates, but even third person games can work well in VR.

 

[StealthGoblin]

How distasteful. What the hell are they thinking?

 

[skit_data]

 

[Spaceman292]

the whole thing is pathetic. it sucked what happened but did they really need to go and make a dramatic movie about it? shame on ubisoft too for making a VR game around it.

i hope any money made from the film/game is going towards restoring the cathedral or to charity? i know ubisoft donated 500,000 euros but i mean what they make from the game. maybe it will be free? wouldn't like to think they're trying to claw some money back....

It was pretty cinematic as far as fires go, I'm surprised there haven't been more movies. But making a puzzle game about it seems pretty insensitive.

 

[Y0ssarian]

Ubisoft has created a new virtual reality escape game focused on escaping the Notre-Dame cathedral when the dreadful fire engulfed it back in 2019.

Holy shit

 

[SilentUser]

That does not sound like a good idea, honestly.

 

[Kev Kev]

*grabs pitch fork???*

no one died in the fire. can someone explain why im supposed to be offended by this so i can be part of the outrage?

 

[Business]

They had the whole thing already mapped because of AC Unity so I guess this was cheap to make.

Yeah, this is rather tasteless.

 

[ManaByte]

Ubisoft has created a new virtual reality escape game focused on escaping the Notre-Dame cathedral when the dreadful fire engulfed it back in 2019.

Is this a Hard Drive article?

 

[Markio128]

I can see both sides of the argument here. It is a bit tasteless, but nobody was hurt. It isn’t like the are doing a VR Holocaust. Not for me though.

 

[Arun1910]

This is tasteless.

But this is also GAF, Day 1.

 

[ManaByte]

It isn’t like the are doing a VR Holocaust.

 

[stranno]

Maybe not the best setting, but this looks interesting. I wish you could control firefighters tho.

 

[sertopico]

Will there be NFTs (non flammable tokens)?

 

[Bo_Hazem]

I was talking to a friend today about how Ubisoft saved Notre Dame, but this is just blowing all that away in a pathetic way.

 

[Maddoxswe]

Calm down folks, it's based on a movie. Could be an experience to see it in vr !

 

[Captain Toad]

I can see both sides of the argument here. It is a bit tasteless, but nobody was hurt. It isn’t like the are doing a VR Holocaust. Not for me though.

Aren't most Call of Duty games technically about the Holocaust, at least in large part?

 

[winjer]

Fuck Ubisoft.

 

[Gameplaylover]

 

[Captain Toad]

Calm down folks, it's based on a movie. Could be an experience to see it in vr !

The reaction isn't very GAF, it sounds more like the other outrage-culture site.

If it's based on a movie that's based on an event where no one was hurt, are we really that offended? Or are we just looking for reasons to say "fuck Ubisoft"?

 

[V1LÆM]

I was talking to a friend today about how Ubisoft saved Notre Dame, but this is just blowing all that away in a pathetic way.

lol they didn't save Notre Dame. they donated 500,000 euros.

1 billion euros were donated within a week. ubisofts donation is 0.05% of that. some people/businesses donated 10, 20, 50, 100 or even 200M euros. so anywhere between 1-20%.

so they hardly saved it lmfao. it was nice of them to donate but others done a much bigger job of saving it.

 

[Rest]

Yeah, this is rather tasteless.

How? It's just a building. It doesn't have feelings.

 

[V1LÆM]

How? It's just a building. It doesn't have feelings.

it's tasteless in that it's an iconic location and important to french people. it seems like some people are trying to make money off it. if they want to make films and games of it then fine by all means but they should be doing it to help raise funds or for donating to charity.

 

[Rest]

I can see both sides of the argument here. It is a bit tasteless, but nobody was hurt. It isn’t like the are doing a VR Holocaust. Not for me though.

Should you like to read about Nazi romps in VR, there is an interesting one in The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect.

 

[Rest]

it's tasteless in that it's an iconic location and important to french people. it seems like some people are trying to make money off it. if they want to make films and games of it then fine by all means but they should be doing it to help raise funds or for donating to charity.

The building being important to the French means that no one can explore an important moment in its history through art? That would mean that Ubisoft should never have modeled it for Assassin's Creed. Which would mean that they wouldn't have had the data available to help with its reconstruction.

The building's importance is not a good argument to stifle art about it. In fact, its importance is an argument for creating art featuring the building.

 

[V1LÆM]

The building being important to the French means that no one can explore an important moment in its history through art? That would mean that Ubisoft should never have modeled it for Assassin's Creed. Which would mean that they wouldn't have had the data available to help with its reconstruction.

The building's importance is not a good argument to stifle art about it. In fact, its importance is an argument for creating art featuring the building.

good job missing my point.

i'm not against it being made. infact i totally agree it should be made and documented so people can learn about it. it's tasteless in that it's important location to france and people seem to be trying to make money off it. honestly i feel like i'm repeating myself here....if they are doing it to help with costs and/or giving the money to charity then fine. but so far nobody has came in saying such a thing. so it seems like that dude with his film and ubisoft are doing this to line their own pockets. that's why it's shit.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

lol they didn't save Notre Dame. they donated 500,000 euros.

1 billion euros were donated within a week. ubisofts donation is 0.05% of that. some people/businesses donated 10, 20, 50, 100 or even 200M euros. so anywhere between 1-20%.

so they hardly saved it lmfao. it was nice of them to donate but others done a much bigger job of saving it.

Didn't know they paid money, I was referring to their scans of Notre Dame that helped rebuilding it again authentically. Thanks for the details.

 

[Nautilus]

Kinda distasteful, if I have to say.

 

[Gaelyon]

I'm a french person and i'm not offended at all. Stop being a drama queen, nobody is dead and it's a joint effort with the movie, made by a very respected french director (Jean Jacques Annaud), a collab at the initiative of Pathé (the movie distributor) on Annaud idea.

The US is known to make a movie of any incident (remember the Eastwood movie about the americans on a french train fighting terrorists ?). I was far more shocked by a New York guy selling T shirt on the streets with "I've Survived" on it, the day after the Twins Towers collapsed. THAT was tasteless.

 

[isoRhythm]

At first, you think it's tasteless... then you remember it's being made by French people

 

[Tschumi]

Hwou hwou hwou let uz make wiv ze poopy woopy explotashyown

 

[Rivet]

I'm a french person and i'm not offended at all. Stop being a drama queen, nobody is dead and it's a joint effort with the movie, made by a very respected french director (Jean Jacques Annaud), a collab at the initiative of Pathé (the movie distributor) on Annaud idea.

The US is known to make a movie of any incident (remember the Eastwood movie about the americans on a french train fighting terrorists ?). I was far more shocked by a New York guy selling T shirt on the streets with "I've Survived" on it, the day after the Twins Towers collapsed. THAT was tasteless.

I'm French too but I have mixed feelings about that. For Paris and French people, that event was a disaster and it's not like it happened a long time ago. I'm not sure a game about that is a good idea.

Then again, it depends on how it's done.

 

[Rest]

good job missing my point.

i'm not against it being made. infact i totally agree it should be made and documented so people can learn about it. it's tasteless in that it's important location to france and people seem to be trying to make money off it. honestly i feel like i'm repeating myself here....if they are doing it to help with costs and/or giving the money to charity then fine. but so far nobody has came in saying such a thing. so it seems like that dude with his film and ubisoft are doing this to line their own pockets. that's why it's shit.

I didn't miss your point. Your point is wrong. Ubisoft is making a game. They are selling the game because that's how they continue to exist. Art isn't free. Games aren't free. If Ubisoft wants to make a game they have to pay the people who make it for them. If they want to pay those people, that money has to come from somewhere. They bring money in by selling games. And Ubisoft is way, way better about giving games away for free after they've made a profit on them than any other company of similar size.

 

[Elios83]

Can't believe this is true. Such bad taste.
But indeed current Ubisoft would do anything for profits.

 

[The Alien]

Ubisoft is creatively dead. They're lost..

Of course they are using AC assets from this. Thats all they have/do.

Remember when they said they were taking a break to refocus AC and FC toninjwct some freshness into their series? ...then Valhalla and FC6 came out and it was literally the same as everything before it.

 

[Prison Mike]

 

[Raven117]

I disagree. I don’t think this is crazy distasteful. It’s releasing along with a documentary on the issue. And a game that helps capture what happened… to be in a realistic depiction of that gorgeous church can help realize what was lost.

It’s not like this is some 60 bucks… aAA notre dame first person shooter taking down demon deacons…..(which kinda sounds awesome actually).

Y’all need to lighten up

 

[MR ARCADE FOREVER]

Ubisoft is the new EA. I don't give a penny to them.

 

[struggler_guts]

The building is gonnah be done being rebuilt in like 2 years...

You guys are acting like they're making a game on the 2015 paris attacks

 

[Come On Tars]

Do you also get to kill the terrorist who started it?

 

[kalecsan]

What's with the ragetard reaction?
Who gives a damn about Notre Dame

 

[ManaByte]

You guys are acting like they're making a game on the 2015 paris attacks

 

[mitch1971]

*grabs pitch fork???*

no one died in the fire. can someone explain why im supposed to be offended by this so i can be part of the outrage?

You heartless swine! Think of the buildings!

 

[Tripolygon]

If nobody died or was greatly injured in the fire then it is fine. It is an iconic building that caught on fire, recreating that event is not an entirely bad idea.

Recreating the WTC incident is a whole other thing.

 

[MR ARCADE FOREVER]

What's with the ragetard reaction?
Who gives a damn about