Ubisoft has never been one to shy away from compilation games, but it’s struggled to find just the right genre to stick all of its various IPs into. Mobile strategy games don’t seem to be the ticket, so how about a Bomberman clone?
Let’s be clear, Ubisoft All-Star Blast looks and feels almost exactly like Bomberman, but as a free-to-play browser game. You control your character using either a mouse and keyboard or simple touch controls, laying bombs in your wake to try and blow up your numerous opponents.
The format is a battle royale with up to 99 players. Each player will arrive as a different character from any of Ubisoft’s many games, such as Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia, Immortals: Fenyx Rising, Rayman, Watch Dogs, Rabbids, Brawlhalla, and every game with Tom Clany’s name in it.
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If we needed any more evidence that Ubisoft will continually relegate Sam Fisher to bizarre spinoffs that nobody asked for, you couldn’t do better than Ubisoft All-Star Blast.
The good news is that All-Star Blast doesn't technically require a download to play, although you will need to install it to your browser in order to log in and maintain a player account. There are daily rewards for in-game currency that can presumably be spent to unlock any of the 100+ characters that Ubisoft owns, but you really just need the Rabbids.
Why? Because Rabbids. It's the same reason Nintendo did not one but TWO crossover games with them; you cannot deny the Rabbids.
Ubisoft All-Star Blast is part of a collection of free-to-play web-based party games that can be played on any device. Think of it as the return of those Flash games from the mid-2000s, but specifically Ubisoft-branded. There's an endless runner, a shark-based 2D battle royale game, and Rabbids game where you try to avoid falling into a volcano.
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