A short while ago Ubisoft announced that they canceled three unannounced games and delayed Skull & Bones again. Since Ubisoft canceled quite a lot of games recently we decided to go down memory lane and remember all the games Ubisoft never released.
Note: We will only mention official information about announced games, but there are dozens of other unannounced projects that we will never see.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Frontline
Frontline was supposed to be a battle royale spin-off in the Ghost Recon franchise. It wouldn’t be a battle royale like Warzone or PUBG, the design mostly resembles Hazard Zone mode in Battlefield 2042. You drop in, look for loot and intel, and then extract.
Still, a battle royale is something that no one really wants at this point. There’s just been too much chicken for dinner in the past few years and the players are full. Even if Frontline was released at some point, it probably wouldn’t catch on with competitors like Warzone.
Splinter Cell VR
Ubisoft never really made VR games, but since VR blew up a few years ago, we are not surprised that Ubisoft wanted to jump on the trend as well. The Splinter Cell VR could have been a comeback of a classic series of Ubisoft games, but unfortunately not anymore.
There is not much left for Splinter Cell at all, which is disappointing. At the same time, a VR project is probably not the best way to try and revive the franchise. At the end of the day, only a few of us actually play VR games.
Project Q
Project Q was announced because of several leaks. And it was meant to be a PvP team battle arena (not battle royale) with multiple game modes with one goal in mind: fun.
It wasn’t really a shooter as well. There were supposed to be different abilities and a focus on movement and melee combat with a martial arts style of sorts.
Not much is known except for the fact that the game was canceled. The official reason from Ubisoft was: “we will no longer support the development of Project Q in order to focus on priority projects, to which our teams are being reallocated” and that seems to be the case with the majority of Ubisoft cancelations.
Hyper Scape
Hyper Scape is one of the games that was actually released but didn’t take long to retire. Hyper Scape was a battle royale game released in 2020 and shut in 2022.
The game was actually quite unique as far as the genre goes. When you launched the game you could walk around the “lobby” to access the key menu functions and jump into Neo Arcadia, a virtual world where battle royale matches took place.
The gameplay had a heavy focus on verticality and fast-paced combat. There were jump pads to hop on roofs and jump across them with different mobility and combat power-ups. It was fun but only for a short while. There was nothing that called you back to play, which is why the game never found its audience and died.
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6: Patriots
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6: Patriots was the next in line of the Rainbow 6 series and was supposed to tell the story of Team Rainbow fighting a terrorist group “True Patriots” in New York City.
The game was planned to be a single-player game with new squad management and combat mechanics. Apart from the story, the game also planned to have multiplayer and co-op experiences.
The development process of the game was very rocky with multiple team changes and controversies surrounding the game. Plus, the new generation of consoles was right around the corner. In the end, Patriots were scrapped, and Ubisoft released another game about Rainbow 6 – Rainbow Six: Siege.
Older Canceled Games by Ubisoft
We went over some of the highlights of Ubisoft’s cancellation streak, but it doesn’t end there. There were a lot of older games that never saw the light of day dating back to the times of Game Boy Advance. So here’s the list of all the remaining canceled games by Ubisoft:
- Aliens Versus Predator for Game Boy Advance
- America’s Army: Rise of a Soldier for PlayStation 2
- Animalz Marine Zoo for Nintendo DS
- Arcatera for Dreamcast
- Assassin’s Creed: Lost Legacy for Nintendo 3DS
- Assassin’s Creed Utopia for Android, iOS
- Babyz Party for Wii
- Bonx for Game Boy Advance
- Bratz: Formal Funk for PlayStation 2
- Brothers in Arms: Furious 4 for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One
- Call of Juarez for Xbox
- Campus for PlayStation 2, Xbox
- Charlie’s Angels for Game Boy Advance, Xbox
- Cloudberry Kingdom for PlayStation Vita
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for GameCube
- Dance on Broadway for Nintendo DS
- Dragon Riders for Game Boy Color
- E.T.: Return to the Green Planet for PlayStation 2
- Far Cry Instincts for PlayStation 2
- F1 Racing Championship 2 for Windows, PlayStation 2
- Funky Barn for PlayStation 3
- Gold and Glory: The Road to El Dorado for Dreamcast
- Guitar Hits for PlayStation Portable
- Haze for Windows, Xbox 360
- Heroes for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Imagine: Animal Doctor for Windows
- Killer Freaks from Outer Space for Wii U
- Killing Day for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Larry Bond’s Harpoon 4 for Windows
- Might & Magic Raiders for Browser
- My Life Coach for Nintendo DS
- Petz: Monkeyz House for Windows
- Steep for Nintendo Switch
- TMNT for PlayStation 3
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2 for Windows
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter for GameCube
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 for Wii
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Commander for Browser
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier for Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Island Thunder for PlayStation 2
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Phantoms for Wii U
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Critical Hour for PlayStation 2
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear for PlayStation 2
- Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas for GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
- V.I.P. for Dreamcast
- Wildwaters for Nintendo 64
- ZombiU 2 for Wii U
The company has definitely made quite a few moves over the years but we will hope for a bright future ahead and that Ubisoft itself won’t get canceled in the nearest future. There are still a few exciting games coming our way like Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora and Assassin’s Creed Mirage.
