Some leaked screenshots of an early build apparently. So 18th century France it is then!
The French Revolution, huh? Seems interesting, but then again that’s what we thought about AC3 too :’(
And is it a spinoff of AC4 or something, the first pic alludes to that…
I assume that’s early code running on last gen hardware.
I don’t think I’ll be getting this one. The only reason I have ACIV is because of the naval warfare. But I’ll keep an eye on it, nonetheless.
So… Napoleonic wars may be a thing in this… Are you sure it’s not 19th century, too?
If it’s around 1848, it’ll probably contain motherload of revolutions… But that IS 19th.
It’s official… Assasin’s Creed - Unity coming for PS4,Xbox One and PC holiday 2014 and here’s the “alpha footage trailer” .
FRENCH REVOLUTION YEAHHHHHH
oh man i hope they make the crowd AI better, that was the weakest part of any AC game and they never once improved it. they used the same animations for pretty much all of the games, and they all just wandered around like soulless automatons. Even oblivion had more believable AI.
Damn. That’s more like it Ubisoft. I’d given up trying to judge the success of AC games based on where they’re set because they always seem to produce excellent games. But a large part of me is really glad they’re going back to places with history. Large scale architecture. Tall buildings. The more extravagant in place of AC III and IV’s wooden huts.
Well played. Well played.
Offtopic, but there have been at least 10 Assassin’s Creed games since Half-Life 2: Episode Two came out 
FFS
after blackflag they go to this time period?
That’s the thing that bothered me - French Revolution would mark the fourth game (counting Liberation and Freedom Cry) set in the 18th century. Plus there’s also the risk that it might cut too close to the American Revolution. I also thought it was just a bit too obvious - like people voting for Victorian London as a setting as though there’s no other era that London existed in.
But there are strong arguments for it.
The architecture will be unlike anything the AC world has seen. Paris at the time is a city of enormous Gothic cathedrals, Baroque mansions, palaces and Haussmann city planning.
The French Revolution was a case of the commoners rising up against the aristocracy as opposed to colonists rising up against a nation. The themes are different. It’s also far bloodier and arguably darker, culminating in the Reign of Terror.
This was the height of the Enlightenment, an age of science and reason that wasn’t present to the same extent in AC III or IV. There were several key breakthroughs in almost every scientific field.
I think so far my only complaint is the protagonist’s outfit. Really? It looks like a cut and paste of Black Flag’s outfit.
You can’t really set an AC game much later than the 18th or 19th century though. Like I’ve heard people saying they’d want a WWI game, but I don’t think that would work. AC has always been more about melee combat than anything and having it set too close to current day would make using melee combat make less and less sense.
If All Quiet On The Western Front was accurate, WWI actually had tons of melee combat, mostly in the form of shovels.
WWI also had people regularly getting mowed down by machine guns and generally hiding in trenches 90% of the time. I’d imagine you wouldn’t be directly fighting in the war but I can’t think of a way to make it work right now.
they need to do one in the 70s. give the protagonist a .38 special, hoop rings that fold out into spikes, daggers in her heels, etc
Erich Maria Remarque wrote it from his personal experiences (as far as I know, he spent two months or so with artillery battalion), so I’d bet yeah. Something about BOLT ACTION RIFLES not being suited for CQB. And if I remember correctly, Katza told Baumer’s bunch that bayonets were much slower at work than shovels, hehehe.
There’s even the sneaky part in the book, where Baumer spends two days and a night in no-mans-land if I remember that right.
All in all, I think there’d be plenty of opporunities.
Also, AC wiki claims that Stalin and Hitler were actually killed by Assassins, as well as one apparent British Assassin on the western front of WWI, and Nikolai Orelov operating around 1900.
They even claim that Brutus was an Assassin - sadly the damn references don’t really BRING ANY REAL INFO. But if Ubi really established all these facts, hell. They can make an AC game in any period. They can even make a game about one of the six “legendary” Assassins in the Monteriggioni villa.
All in all, they can milk the series for at least ten more years.
Also, will Unity take part during ~1790 (fall of Bastile, fall of Louis XVI.) or 1848 European Shitstorm of Revolutions©?
Wouldn’t you be playing as Desmond’s mom then :fffuuu:
Who says she wasn’t a hooded Assassin, ie field operative?