Ubisoft boss says remakes of classic Assassin’s Creed are a go

Due to the near-annual frequency of the collection’ launches, it’s arduous to keep in mind that Assassin’s Creed as a franchise is now sufficiently old to purchase its M-rated, 17-and-older self.

As a result of the campaign-based story shifts areas and principal characters, every launch, like final yr’s Mirage, or this coming November’s Shadows, appears to reset the franchise as a brand new thought regardless of the actual fact all of it pivots on the identical sci-fi, time-traveling/memory-hunting idea established by Patrice Désilets in 2007.

If remarks from Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot are any guide, although, followers would possibly begin pondering of Murderer’s Creed’s personal historical past in a extra related method. That’s as a result of the French writer is pursuing remakes of a few of the recreation’s foundational hits, stopping simply in need of confirming a report last year that an up to date Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag (2013) was on deck.

“Gamers could be enthusiastic about some remakes, which is able to enable us to revisit a few of the video games we’ve created previously and modernize them,” Guillemot stated in an interview posted to Ubisoft’s official web site. “There are worlds in a few of our older Murderer’s Creed video games which can be nonetheless extraordinarily wealthy.”

Guillemot has the suitable intuition that Murderer’s Creed includes distinct worlds and eras followers would like to dive again into. You noticed a few of that in final yr’s launch of Murderer’s Creed Mirage, which took the collection again to its origins as an journey set within the Persia through the Islamic Golden Age, like the unique recreation. Subsequent entries embraced the Italian Renaissance, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, Victorian England, after which historical Egypt, Greece, and the Vikings’ top of energy in Northern Europe.

The collection has seen collected re-releases earlier than, however these have been anthologies of current video games moderately than remasters or remakes. The latest was Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag plus its companion, Murderer’s Creed Rogue, for Nintendo Change in 2019. Earlier than that was Murderer’s Creed: The Ezio Assortment, spanning the three Renaissance-era video games from 2009 to 2011.

Why is Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag so widespread?

Murderer’s Creed IV: Black Flag was a launch title for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Together with Murderer’s Creed: Rogue (initially launched for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3) it was a fork off the American Revolution chapter launched the yr earlier than, and took benefit of an historic New World timeframe to present gamers a full-blown, open world pirate fantasy within the Caribbean Sea. Black Flag’s naval fight techniques later turned the idea for Cranium and Bones, which launched in February after repeated delays.

Along with Murderer’s Creed Shadows, set in Japan’s feudal period (particularly the sixteenth century), Ubisoft is creating a brand new chapter at present codenamed Murderer’s Creed Hexe, whose story will coincide with the witchcraft trials and persecutions of the Holy Roman Empire within the late 1500s. Hexe “goes to be a really completely different recreation from Murderer’s Creed Shadows. We’re going to shock individuals, I feel,” Guillemot stated.