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How gaming firm Ubisoft mashed 'Rabbids' into 'Mario' world
The second edition of one of the most ambitious mash-ups in video games is set to arrive on Thursday -- Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope.
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Grant Kirkhope, Music Composer, performs music for Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Donkey Kong DLC during the Ubisoft E3 conference at the Orpheum Theater on June 11, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (AFP/Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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t took 300 staff working in five cities about five years, but the second edition of one of the most ambitious mash-ups in video games is set to arrive on Thursday -- Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope.
The game merges Nintendo's Mario, the Italian plumber who has given his name to an entire universe of games, with Ubisoft's Rabbids, a series focused on the adventures of a species of screeching, hyperactive rabbit-like animals.
Nintendo, like other media companies, is highly protective of its creations.
Only fellow Japanese studio Sega has been entrusted with characters from Mario before, for special editions games celebrating the Olympic Games where they compete with Sonic the Hedgehog.
"Nintendo told us very early on: 'This is your game, this is your vision, we respect it,'" Ubisoft's Xavier Manzanares, who is overseeing the new game's development, told AFP.
"That's where it's interesting, so we had real creativity, really interesting room for manoeuvre."
The first game in the series, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, has garnered more than 10 million players since its release in 2017, said Manzanares.
