According to Ubisoft Montreal’s Jean-Francois Boivin, chances of Assassin’s Creed III gracing gamers’ shelves next year are pretty much slim to none. Speaking to Eurogamer about fields being ploughed and breathing exercises, Jean-Francois explains that you have to make people want something, the process of taking it away for a while usually a sound tactic that keeps interest in a property such as Assassin’s Creed alive. He states:
“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
tinman9
Sold my copy of the 1st game but mean to pick up AC2 later.
First game was too slow, and became very boring after a while.
Origami Killer
I thought it was coming out yearly, wasnt it mentioned on tsa a few weeks back
Addam
I think the chances of a medieval one or Spanish Inquisition one are less likely, since those time frames would kind of clash with those from AC 1 & 2, and since it’s his ancestors that we play as, their needs to be a jump in time between location changes. Baring in mind that the widespread use of firearms would make it difficult for the character to operate (or take something away from the gameplay if he had them as well), I think the French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars could make a good setting, or possibly Victorian London.
RADGMF
Maybe good maybe not.
Aquastyle
This is great news imo. The Assassins Creed series have potential to be even greater, more developing time and polish will do the game good…