Look out gamers, Ubisoft and Square Enix are going in cahoots to bring you a collaboration of epic fashion proportions. It was announced today that a costume worn by Ezio Auditore from Assassin’s Creed Revelations would be loaning his garments to Noel Kreiss of Final Fantasy XIII-2.
It must be laundry day in Cocoon because Noel, one of the main characters from Final Fantasy XIII-2, will be borrowing garb from Ezio, the main protagonist from Assassin’s Creed Revelations. Ezio’s outfit will come optional as downloadable content.
Square Enix has been trying as desperately to push as many incentives as they can on players in hopes that they will get excited about Final Fantasy XIII-2 when it releases next year. There are already a choice a of three pre-order incentives at various retailers. Along with pre-order incentives, Square Enix also plans on offering bi-monthly DLC, which one would assume includes the Assassin’s Creed costume arrangement.
There may be no surprise that Square Enix is trying to get a positive buzz going for a sequel that had a mediocre predecessor (read our review of Final Fantasy XIII). CEO of Square Enix, Yoichi Wada, has also admitted that the Final Fantasy brand has been hurt recently. Could all of these incentives be their way to climb back up from rock bottom?
Check out the images below for an idea of the character Noel (on the right in the FFXIII-2 picture) and the Ezio costume.
Release details for the downloadable Ezio attire will be announced at a later date. Will this joint-collaboration between Ubisoft and Square Enix be enough to push fans to become more interested in Final Fantasy XIII-2 or will Square Enix have to try a little harder to get their franchise out of a rut?
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is out now for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 releases January 31, 2012 for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
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I hate that Final Fantasy is on the xbox 360 now…..they don’t deserve our francise RPG…
I assume by “our”, you’re talking about Nintendo’s. You know, where Final Fantasy began.
Otherwise you’d be yet another ignorant fanboy, who started playing the games with FF7, crying about how you have to share your game with others.
FiachDubh, you just made my day. Thank you.
@Indigo and EK22
You’re welcome.
Yes FiachDubh! Thank you!
And for your information ‘nuk60′ The Final Fantasy XIII series is split into 3 games, 1 for both consoles (XIII), 1 for the PSP (Type Zero) and 1 one for the Playstation 3.
So how can you say that anyone has robbed you or your console of this masterpiece when it’s spread on 3 consoles? hahaha
A) thank you for tearing that sony fanboy a new one.
B) nobody remembers/cares that it started on nintendo
C) sharing is caring, it does not affect the ps3 that FF is on the 360 now, we all know that in 10 years sony, nintendo and microsoft will combine to make the greatest console of all time
Nintendo losing Final Fantasy is their own fault they wouldn’t use CD-ROMS which is the format Square wanted to use.
Square released on the 360 to increase sales but that didn’t help to much (the lackluster response to XIII didn’t help either) or else versus XIII would be coming out on 360 so after XIII-2 360 probably won’t see another Final Fantasy unless XIII-2 does really good in sales on 360.
On a side not what is with all the Assassin’s Creed love from the Japanese game developers
Your wrong why would they stop making it for xbox for a stupid reason they know they got fans from xbox so why would they stop now
Because the limited space of the 360 disks basically ruined the game for all?…
No one is arguing WHY Nintendo lost Final Fantasy, back when the CD-ROM format became the standard.
It was Squaresoft’s game series, and they could do what they wanted with it. Sony offered them the system they needed to present the game they wanted, that’s business.
The point is, Final Fantasy doesn’t belong to Sony, just as it didn’t belong to Nintendo.
It’s ignorant of people who supposedly love the series, to demand said series adhere to their own personal criteria for console exclusivity. It only hurts the game, by limiting it’s exposure and enjoyment to a select group of people.
I would think “true” fans of the series, would be happy, that the game is in more homes, making more money, and bringing in more fans.
Square-Enix still puts out Final Fantasy games on Nintendo systems like the DS, so I fail to understand why Sony fanboys can, with sincerity, lay claim to the series.
@Pawnty
Please explain, in detail what was “ruined”.
and after that, explain why games like Dragon Age: Origins and The Elder Scrolls Skyrim, can contain much more content on the XBox 360, than most PS3 games.
Don’t bother, the fact is, the 360′s slight difference in disc space ended up effecting NOTHING. You need to face facts that the game was exactly the way they wanted it to be and if space was an issue, a second disc would have been used on the 360 version, but it wasn’t. That had NOTHING to do it.
Just because the blue ray disc can hold potentially more data, doesn’t mean the game would have.
FiachDubh you are becoming my favorite person right now
Played FF13 on the 360 and PS3 its the same besides the fact there’s 4 disc for the 360 but that’s ok so is Lost Odyssey(awesome turn based game). The only thing that ruined FF13 was the battle system. I played the entire game by just doing auto attack and switching one person 2 healing and tanking on bosses. Also not being able to control of all the characters was kind of a let down. I miss the turn based that squaresoft had with FF games. Since the merge with Enix corp I haven’t been balls deep in a FF game since.
FFXIII had 3 disc’s, Lost Odyssey had 4
I remember saying something forever ago about an Assassin’s Creed Dlc. I feel awesome.