Variety experiences that Ubisoft is engaged on a VR sport during which gamers develop into members of the Parisian hearth brigade combating the fireplace that severely broken Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral in 2019. The one-hour expertise is being made in partnership with a docudrama with which it shares a reputation: Notre-Dame on Hearth, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (Enemy on the Gates, The Identify of the Rose).
“Like several escape sport, it is a query of puzzles and co-operating along with your teammates,” Deborah Papiernik, senior VP of latest enterprise and strategic alliances at Ubisoft, instructed Selection. “The concept is to make your means by the cathedral to search out relics and to struggle the fireplace, as a result of it’s a must to save Notre Dame [before the clock runs out].”
The 2019 hearth burned for roughly 15 hours and resulted within the cathedral’s predominant spire collapsing, in addition to the destruction of a lot of the roof. The towers have been saved, nonetheless. Reconstruction work is ongoing, and the cathedral is not scheduled to reopen till 2024.
Ubisoft had made an in depth 3D mannequin of Notre-Dame for Murderer’s Creed Unity, and used that mannequin to make a earlier VR expertise known as Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time, which is offered free of charge.
Notre-Dame on Hearth, each the film and the VR sport, will launch in March. Which {hardware} will probably be obtainable for has but to be introduced.
