No Assassin’s Creed In 2011
Even killers take a vacation.
Published: 22:12, 09/07/2010 by Kovacs.
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“Honestly, I think for the benefit of everybody – and business can come back and override everything I say because at the end of the day it’s about selling games – I believe that this license needs a breather. You can’t plough a field every year. Once every three years – or once every something – you have to let it breathe. You have to let the minerals back in. I think it’s the same thing with any license, really.
You gotta make people miss it a bit. It’s like, ‘Oh man! I’m so happy it’s back!’ But if you keep force-feeding to people then people are like, ‘Yeah, enough of your Assassin’s Creed’.”
Fans eager to keep chasing flags and feathers, however, will have their penchant for knifing strangers in alleyways sated this November when Assassin’s Creed II spin-off, Brotherhood, is released.
But getting back to the next sequential title in the series – regardless of whatever year it launches – the man from Ubi states that they already know where (and, more importantly, when) they are going, holding true to the story’s arc of Desmond and the Animus. He reveals:
“We know exactly where we’re going. It would lack vision and blunt intelligence to wing it episode after episode. We have to have some vision with the story. We very much do; we know all that stuff.
It’s the story of Desmond Miles, and it’s the story of a machine called an Animus that reads genetic memories from your ancestors. It has to stay in there. If it doesn’t, then there’s this whole justification that needs to happen.”
We’re hoping for something different. Perhaps medieval France or the Spanish Inquisition? That said, as long as we get to knife unwary folk, we don’t really care what timeline they’re from. We’re easy like that.
Source: Eurogamer
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09/07/2010 at 22:25
Member since: Dec 2008
Medieval England? Egypt? Japanese Ninja’s?
They can go so many ways. But if they dont improve upon the controls and overall presentation then its still gonna be a no for me.
It just lacks for some reason IMO. Great concept, just doesnt feel properly executed. I suppose I’m in the minority though!
09/07/2010 at 22:28
Member since: Nov 2009
yeah you probably are… but i agree they need something new, and i like the fact that 3 wont come out in 2011, giving time for new ideas and concepts to be born and implemented, still excited for brotherhood though.. YAY!!
09/07/2010 at 22:27
Member since: Mar 2010
Very good Ubisoft! Not every year like CoD series. Quality is the most important, but i guess AC3 might come in 2012.
10/07/2010 at 12:18
Member since: Aug 2009
Definatly 2012
09/07/2010 at 22:31
Member since: Jan 2010
Interesting, I definitely agree but then you look at titles like the Call of Duty series which still manage to sell insanely well even though it’s a yearly release from different studios. :\
I guess FPS versus Action/adventure audiences are different? That being said, I’d probably play an Uncharted every year if they made a new one each time.
09/07/2010 at 22:33
Member since: Dec 2009
That and the fact that Activision have, like, 49 studios working on Call of Duty titles at any one time.
09/07/2010 at 22:40
Member since: Mar 2010
IW & Treyarch should let go CoD series for a while and make something new and let other games have some mercy boost sales.
09/07/2010 at 22:45
Member since: Dec 2009
Treyarch are “a 100% COD studio now.”
09/07/2010 at 23:00
Member since: May 2009
makes sense, after all, the story line’s end game is in 2012, so having a major 2012 game release is much more sensible.
09/07/2010 at 23:03
Member since: Mar 2010
i thought brotherhood WAS AC3 o_O aaaanyway itrs obvious that AC3 will be 90% desmond and take place in the future(present) and have a shit ton of techy assassin gadgets fingers crossed for remote spider recon bombs
09/07/2010 at 23:08
Member since: Dec 2009
Brotherhood is more AC2.5
09/07/2010 at 23:51
Member since: Feb 2009
In a way this is good news, I don’t want the AC series to become rushed, and that Ubisoft feel the need to rush one out each year. Hopefully, Brotherhood will be amazing (it certainly looks it!) and will keep us entertained.
Or maybe, Ubisoft Montreal could go and make another Rainbow Six game next year, that would be awesome! :D
10/07/2010 at 00:09
Member since: Nov 2008
Another Rainbow Six game would be awesome, so long as the online play was more that of Vegas 1 than 2. 2 seemed to have a hell of a lot people just trying to ‘run and gun’.
10/07/2010 at 09:58
Member since: Mar 2010
Loved Vegas 2, I would love to see a new Rainbow Six game.
10/07/2010 at 10:58
Member since: Feb 2009
Vegas 2 was far better IMO, the maps were more fun and the game modes were better too.
10/07/2010 at 00:00
Member since: Apr 2010
If they manage to make the leap in quality that they made between the first and second game, then AC3 is something to really look forward to!
10/07/2010 at 01:35
Member since: Forever
I love AC2. My first platinum. :)
12/07/2010 at 12:11
Member since: Nov 2009
yeah me too!!
10/07/2010 at 07:48
Member since: Jun 2009
Phew, 1st time ive been pleased to hear a game is not coming out to soon
10/07/2010 at 08:57
Member since: Mar 2009
This is good news if it means that Ubisoft take their time and don’t rush out AC3, and with Brotherhood having an online mode, that should help it’s longevity until we get the next installment in the series.