It’s Open Season for Ubisoft

Ubisoft sure seam to be busy lately, Today they have announced a game based on the soon to be released CGI movie “”Open Season.”” Here is the press release:

Paris, FRANCE April 11, 2006 Today Ubisoft, one of the worlds largest video game publishers, announced that the Open Season video game, based on Sony Pictures Animations first feature-length CG animated film, will be shipping mid- September 2006 on all available video game platforms, two weeks prior to the movies September 29 release. Developed by Ubisofts award-winning Montreal studio, Open Season will allow gamers to relive the humor and adventure of the movie by creating a fun and immersive interactive world that conveys the same comedic storyline, zany characters and artistic images projected in the animated film….

Click “”Continue Reading”” to read all of the press realease. We have been working hand-in-hand with Ubisofts team to create a game that captures all the fun of Open Season, said Mark Caplan, executive director, interactive at Sony Pictures Consumer Products. Sony Pictures leadership in digital entertainment coupled with Ubisofts award-winning development team is a great partnership that brings innovation to both the film and video game businesses.

Ubisoft is thrilled to be collaborating with the movie production team of Open Season to bring the humorous adventures of Boog and Elliot to the interactive world, said John Parkes, EMEA marketing director at Ubisoft. Ubisoft is committed to making the best movie-based video games in the industry. We do this by partnering closely with our licensing partners and movie makers to create an experience that remains true to the spirit of the film but expands it far beyond the theater.

Open Season is a riotous romp in the great outdoors, where the rowdy brood of forest animals turns the tables on a bunch of unsuspecting hunters. When a domesticated grizzly named Boog gets lured into leaving the creature comforts of home by a fast-talking mule deer named Elliot, he finds himself lost in the woods just three days before hunting season. Forced to rough it in the great outdoors, Boog goes native, rallying all the forest animals to take back their home and send the hunters packing. The Open Season video game will allow player to relive the movie experience by playing as Boog and Elliot. Game features include:

• Interaction with Beth, Shaw and all of the animal favorites from the Open Season film.
• Throwing skunk bombs, hurling rabbits, using acorn-firing squirrels and pulling outrageous woodland pranks to scare the pants off the hunters.
• Rolling in a giant snowball, riding the rapids on a floating outhouse, zipping through tunnels in a crazy mine cart ride and taking on more madcap adventures as Boog discovers how to go from mild to wild.
• Ability to challenge friends or team up in hilarious four-player mini-games.

Source: Ubisoft