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Jun 12, 2021 1 min, 48 secs

A meaty gameplay preview video showed a three-player squad moving through one of the game's combat levels, which will combine bespoke architecture with random alien placements—and Ubisoft's reps hinted to the aliens being able to create walls, gates, and restrictions to randomly redefine your descent into each level's belly.  The resulting gameplay resembles Left 4 Dead, with a mix of weak and superpowered aliens (dubbed "Archies") potentially splitting squads up as they battle and survive.

Ubisoft didn't clearly answer how the game's ongoing experience and ability systems will work, but Ubisoft's reps hinted to this including a severe risk/reward structure?

One of the event's biggest (albeit unsurprising) stories leaked hours before the conference: Next year, Ubisoft will continue its partnership with Nintendo and release a sequel in the Mario + Rabbids crossover franchise.

The new game, titled Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, sticks to the series' weird premise of original Super Mario characters joining forces with Rabbids, giving them all guns, and making them fight bad guys using turn-based, XCOM-like tactics.

This time, the crossover universe borrows from Super Mario Galaxy's canon by sending the combined battling forces across multiple planets, and introducing Rabbid-ized versions of Rosalina and Luna.

Another Saturday morning leak revolved around today's announcement of Rocksmith+, a new "live" version of Ubisoft's "Guitar Hero, but with real guitars" series.

This follows Ubisoft's decision last year to sunset the existing Rocksmith service, which had revolved around individual DLC purchases of add-on songs.

If you've never bothered with Rocksmith before, a subscription service may ultimately make more sense than lump-sum purchases of individual songs to strum to. But it's unclear whether Ubisoft will maintain enough content and variety to make the new game's version worth investing in for the longterm, especially for those who already dumped plenty of cash into Rocksmith's seven-year-old last-gen structure (or prefer the older PC version's support for user-made add-ons).

Today's announcement of a free beta will at least let those with compatible guitars try before they might one day subscribe—and see whether the new game's mobile app version holds up in terms of using your phone's mic to track your guitar strumming accurately.

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