Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy-branded online, multiplayer survival shooter RPG The Division is coming to PC and the new consoles later this year. It’s powered by Massive entertainment’s shiny new Snowdrop engine, which its creators say will allow smaller teams to make big, high-end AAA titles with relative ease.
Massive Entertainment brand art director Rodrigo Cortes, in an interview with Gamerhub, said that the engine allows a smaller team like Massive to makes games that could compete with "the biggest in the industry".
"We started to work on this engine very early on, like around five years ago, thinking of what would be coming in the next generation – where where the challenges – and also looking at the constraints we have," Cortes said in the interview, which is embedded below.
"We’re in Sweden, we have a way of working where we don’t have much people for the type of games we want to make. So we wanted to make a triple-A game that would compete with the biggest in the industry while having a reasonably-sized studio like Massive.
So the whole development very early on was based on those constraints – ‘how are we going to tackle next-gen, how are we going to tackle triple-A production?’, and the solution was to make a new engine. And it was coupled to The Division very early on," he said.
The Division stole the show at Ubisoft’s E3 conference last year, and certainly had us quite intrigued, even bagging our best new IP award last year. Here’s that interview, with snippets of the rather impressive engine at work.
Last Updated: April 1, 2014
Umar Leonhart
April 1, 2014 at 14:06
So….I don’t beliebe any of these videos and stuff anymore until I see them, in-game, being sold in stores….Might be stupid of me but still, I don’t know what’s up with these trends lately of releasing amazing videos and when it releases it get’s downgraded. Not saying it happens all the time, Infamous pulled it off, but meh, seems to be happening more than it’s supposed to
Rince
April 1, 2014 at 14:15
Does that make you a Beliber? *RUNS
Umar Leonhart
April 1, 2014 at 14:20
It….it was a mistake
Rince
April 1, 2014 at 14:21
I bet he doesn’t think that 0-O
Admiral Chief Railjack
April 1, 2014 at 14:28
Umar the Belieber
Gerhard Davids
April 1, 2014 at 15:01
Umar Belieberhart
Admiral Chief Railjack
April 1, 2014 at 15:04
Seconded!
Admiral Chief Railjack
April 1, 2014 at 14:28
BWAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
Hammersteyn
April 1, 2014 at 14:21
they do this to sell graphic cards
ToshZA
April 1, 2014 at 14:10
Darryn! Your little pony is ruining the headers! Too early in the week for this. T_T
Unavengedavo
April 1, 2014 at 14:33
It’s never too early!!!
Norm the Horrible
April 1, 2014 at 14:39
Ah sweet…
Admiral Chief Railjack
April 1, 2014 at 14:42
Serves me right for clicking on your damn link…
Unavengedavo
April 1, 2014 at 14:45
Lol, what did you expect? Especially on a day like today? 😛
Admiral Chief Railjack
April 1, 2014 at 14:47
Lapse of judgement, I paid the price, dearly 🙁
Unavengedavo
April 1, 2014 at 14:57
At least its not as bad as the other stuff that I post 😛
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
April 1, 2014 at 14:47
Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows
Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows
Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows
Admiral Chief Railjack
April 1, 2014 at 14:48
Glad someone liked it though
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
April 1, 2014 at 14:48
dat song 🙂
Gustav Willem Diedericks
April 1, 2014 at 21:28
Is stuck in your head…for the REST OF THE WEEK!!! AAAAAHHHH!!!!!!
Sir Rants A Lot Llew. Jelly!!!
April 2, 2014 at 07:37
Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows
Pink fluffy unicorns dancing on rainbows
Pink fluffy uincorns dancing on rainbows.
I need to make this my ringtone!
oVg deprived
April 1, 2014 at 15:15
I need some weed.
Admiral Chief Railjack
April 1, 2014 at 14:12
But will we have local support? Or will there be a titanic fall?
Cat
April 1, 2014 at 14:30
I see what you did there :p
Admiral Chief Railjack
April 1, 2014 at 14:31
😉
But still, I really hope we have local servers
Michael Matusowsky
April 1, 2014 at 14:42
He’s swedish. Why is he not blonde?
oVg deprived
April 1, 2014 at 15:13
Snow Drop, Crystal, Frostbite… I am detecting a trend.