Ubisoft CEO, Yves Guillemot, has been speaking to investors on a conference call and has revealed that the next instalment of the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise will be on the shelves by March 2012, possibly earlier. The game will be officially announced in May this year and until then Yves is keeping his cats firmly encased in sacks.
“There will be something around Assassin’s – that’s all we can say,” was his only comment. We tried poking him with a pointy stick to make him talk* but he remained utterly silent.
Can Ubisoft maintain the excellent standards of the previous games if they release a title each year? Let’s hope so. In the meantime, let the rampant speculation as to which time period and location our hero will visit next begin.
Personally I favour the 1797 invasion of Fishguard in Wales by the French during which Jemima Faw, a.k.a. ‘Jemima the Great’ single-handedly captured twelve of the invading soldiers. Jemima (47), wife of a Fishguard cobbler, did have one advantage: the invading soldiers discovered a Portuguese ship had run aground recently and the Welsh had an ample supply of salvaged wine. The French promptly got so rat-arsed they couldn’t fight and Jemima rounded them up with her pitchfork.
Come on Ubisoft, isn’t about time we had a Welsh assassin? Play as Jemima, scouring the streets of Fishguard for the invading forces, a spring loaded pitchfork hidden in her gusset. There’s lovely.
Source: Gamasutra
* No we didn’t
moshi
Shall be looking forward to May with whatever teasing news they want to drip feed us.
RudeAwakening
god don’t tell me this becoming the new COD!
Smallville2106
Like others have said as long as the standard stays high I think it’s a good thing. Just really hope that they keep a good solid single player/story mode.
tactical20
They have incorporated WW1 into Project Legacy, so maybe it could be set then?
Or it might jump around between completely different time periods/locations.