A new mobile game released by Ubisoft last week was actually supposed to be a Far Cry game, it’s been claimed.
Mobilegamer.bizreports that Wild Arena Survivors, which arrived on theiOSandGooglePlay stores with little in the way of announcement fromUbisoft, had the working titleFar Cry: Wild Call.
According toMobilegamer.biz’s sources, the 40-player battle royale title was developed byUbisoft Paris‘ mobile team.
In it, players fight on an exotic island while defending themselves from wild animals, as in the Far Cry games.
The site’s sources claim that the game was originally given a soft launch without any Far Cry branding in an attempt to see if it could prove successful on its own merit.
When this soft launch didn’t gather any momentum, the decision was reportedly made to release the game globally, without any major fanfare, in an attempt to recoup some development costs.
“Knowing Ubisoft like I do, I’d imagine they spent more money than they should have on development, and this is an attempt to recoup what they can and also learn from pushing a fully realtime multiplayer game out,” Mobilegamer.biz’s source told it.
The site notes that none of Ubisoft’s main social media accounts have made mention of the game, and while it does have its own social media accounts they’re modest – theTwitter accounthas 306 followers at the time of writing.
Further reading
It’s not clear if Wild Arena Survivors will get an official ‘launch’ announcement at theUbisoft Forward presentationon September 10.
In July, Ubisoft announced that it would be releasing amobile spin-off for The Division, calledThe DivisionResurgence.
The game will be a free-to-play, third-person shooter RPG which the publisher says will let players roam freely in an open world New York. It will be playable solo or co-operatively and promises a range of PvE activities including story missions and world activities.
