Tom Clancy-based MMO coming; $50 million budget

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Tom Clancy-based MMO coming; $50 million budget

Posted Mar 21st 2008 10:45AM by Terrence Stasse
Filed under: News, Xbox Live, MMO

In a recent follow-up to a conference call, the CEO of Ubisoft revealed that the company would be branching out into other territories with its IP, including Tom Clancy. With the end-of-year release of the voice-controlled RTS EndWar, Ubisoft does seem intent on moving Clancy games out of simply the shooter genres and the just announced Tom Clancy MMO seems to continue the trend. Nothing is known about the game at this time, other than it is being worked on and that it has the rather large budget of 50 million dollars. But with many companies with thier own online games searching for alternative methods of revenue, and with no MMOs that have truly broken into the console mass market, any game such as this has it's work cut out for it.

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3-21-2008 @ 11:07AM

Neuromancer said...

I hope the MMO will really be based on Tom Clancy himself instead of his works. An MMO designed around the minutia of the daily life of this great man would truly revolutionize video gaming as we know it.

3-21-2008 @ 12:22PM

George Arauz said...

This should be very interesting

3-21-2008 @ 6:52PM

Adam said...

Talk about being a bit negative.

3-22-2008 @ 5:42PM

Logan T said...

I'm rather hopeful for it, but reading a budget like that on an untried idea just reminds me of Shenmue. Granted, Shenmue rocked, but it was a colossal bank buster.

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