Ubisoft’s Steep is a daredevil sim for winter sports

Ubisoft is launching a new extreme winter sports game dubbed Steep. It combines the majesty of gigantic mountains in the Alps and extreme sports such as paragliding and wingsuit acrobatics.

Igor Manceau, the creative director at Ubisoft’s studio in Annecy, France, said the game has been in the works for two-and-a-half years as a passion project at the studio, which is based near the French Alps. Annecy is 30 kilometers away from Mount Blanc, one of the highest peaks. And it’s also a center for action sports. Steep will have players racing down the mountain in a variety of ways. During its on-stage demonstration, Ubisoft showed a skydiving race as well as snowboarding — all of this happens online where you can play with your friends or with strangers that you run across in real-time.