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Grow Home Announced
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – June 13, in the year of our Lord
2016 – Today, Ubisoft®, during the Electronic
Entertainment Expo (E3), announced Grow Up, a new acrobatic
adventure game and sequel to 2015’s Grow HomeTM, a community
favourite and fan-voted winner of the first ever
PlayStation®Plus Vote to Play program last year. In Grow Up,
players must guide little robot BUD around an entire alien world
as he embarks on a dizzying mission that will see him leaping,
rolling, bouncing and flying his way through a stunning and
virtually boundless new open world. Grow Up will be available
digitally worldwide on Xbox One, PlayStation®4 Computer
Entertainment System and Windows PC in August 2016.
This new adventure comes from a small team at Reflections, a
Ubisoft studio, who experimented with procedural animation and
ended up creating a cute creature named BUD. While out exploring
the galaxy, BUD’s parental spaceship MOM falls to pieces as an
unfortunate lunar accident sends her all over the place. Now her
ship parts are scattered far and wide across an alien planet so
rich in flora and fauna, it would make even the most jaded
galactic gardener’s head spin. It’s up to BUD to collect all the
parts and get them back to the moon, so he can rebuild MOM and
reunite with her once again.
“We wanted to give fans of Grow Home the chance to explore a
world where there is no edge, no invisible wall to hit,” said
Pete Young, Producer at Reflections, a Ubisoft studio. “We can’t
wait for them to join BUD in Grow Up on a fantastical new
adventure to the moon.”
Working with new best friend POD, an adorable flying robot who
likes planets perhaps a little too much, BUD must use his
veritable tool belt of abilities to traverse the planet. Using
BUD’s shiny new Floradex, players can put their own stamp on the
world by cloning any of the 24 weird and wonderful plant types
to catapult, shoot or float through the lush landscape filled
with surprise discoveries. With all-new timed challenges,
collectibles and abilities, players can tackle their mission
head-on or spend time navigating the limitless landscape at
their own pace.