10 VR Games That Revived Awesome Game Studios Back
6. Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Game Studio: Red Storm Entertainment
This landmark dev behind the iconic Tom Clancy video game brand, created both the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon franchises before Ubisoft outright bought them in 2000.
Under their ownership, the brand continued to flourish, with new Clancy offshoots like Splinter Cell, Advanced Warfare, and The Division blowing up. Plus Rainbow Six is arguably stronger than ever.
Red Storm, however, got slightly left behind amongst other Ubisoft subsidiaries.
Ubisoft Montreal and Shanghai took precedent as developers on the Clancy brand, plus took ownership of Ubi's other major IPs (e.g. Assassins Creed, Far Cry). Storm's last major title, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, was a dud, and they fell from being the stars of the show, into a strict support dev to their more successful brethren.
Until recently though, when they found a new-found niche as Ubi's go-to-VR developer. First, they created the unique party-game/cult hit, Werewolf Within, but their major success is with the Star Trek IP.
Bridge Crew is a game made with attention to loving lore detail, uniquely forcing players to cooperate on the Enterprise bridge. It's a Trek fan's dream: equally frustrating, hilarious, and brilliant...resulting in the most authentic Trek game experience created.