If you watched the Assassin’s Creed Syndicate reveal then you would have noticed the disclaimer in rather large letters at the side of the video, “Pre-alpha footage”. The screens below have no such disclaimer so you can make you own minds up if they are alpha screens or have been been to visit Mr. Photoshop’s Enhancement Emporium of Olde London Town.
In other Syndicate news, it has been confirmed that there will be no multiplayer component to the game.
“The reason we are doing this is to really focus on the roots of the franchise,” creative director Marc-Alexis Cote told Gamespot. “That’s why all nine studios are focused on delivering this single-player experience.”
“We felt like, especially with the type of fight that we have, a very hand-to-hand, very close combat fight, that we needed to have very high responsiveness on the system,” added Executive producer Francois Pelland .
“That’s one thing. It’s navigation as well. When we decided two years and a half ago, we said, let’s do London of 1868. You cannot have vehicles that are just cosmetic. You cannot have vehicles that are just there to look good. Players would have said, I want to drive those things. That adds complexity to the thing. It’s more technical reasons [for leaving out multiplayer.]”
UK retailer GAME has nabbed two exclusive special editions of the game. The Charing Cross Edition includes a Jacob Cross-Road figurine, an exclusive collector’s box, the official soundtrack, an artbook, a double-sided London map and two extra missions – Runaway Train and The Darwin and Dickens Conspiracy. That wil set you back £79.99, whilst the second special edition just includes the extra missions for £53.99.
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate is out on October 23rd for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
Source: Gamespot / Press Release / GAME
Old School
They need to bring the modern storyline back properly. AC1-3 had a clear direction, stopping the end of the world in 2012 which ended with the death of Desmond and the release of Juno who plans to enslave mankind, which is what the Templars wanted. But Ac4 and Unity that story has not a stand still, only vague hints at what’s going on. There is no clear direction now, they need to bring it back. The Templars have won, they need to have the modern Assassin’s trying to stop Juno. I thought the modern second in 3 were brilliant, I loved the modern storyline in AC, it was unique.
Old School
That storyline has hit a standstill*
hazelam
i’d be tempted by a special edition that featured an Evie figurine.
still waiting to find out how playable she actually is in game.
whatever the answer, this is the first AC game in a long while that has me really excited for the series again.
i’ve been saying for years that Victorian era London would be perfect for an AC game.
colmshan1990
“All nine studios”?
The phrase about too many cooks comes to mind…
Adam Guest
Lots of Ubisoft titles share development across studios, this isn’t a new occurrence. Point stands, though. ;)
MrYd
That’s 9 studios which are all part of the same company though. Unity had 10 studios involved and Black Flag had 7.
But they’re all part of Ubisoft, and it makes sense. So much work obviously goes into the games, so some of it needs to get farmed out to different locations that might be specialised in certain aspects, with 1 team overseeing the whole lot. There’s probably a team somewhere who are the experts on modelling buildings, another at characters, somewhere that does music and somewhere that does clothing. And based on 3 and 4, a team that does nothing but simulate oceans.
It’s not as if they split the game up into it’s 13 sequences and hand one out to each studio and then the last 4 go to whoever’s finished first. (That’s assuming it has the traditional 13 sequences most of the other games have)
WaxBull
No multiplayer, thank goodness, AC multiplayer has always been crap imo
JR.
Yes! No MP. Now please don’t make me collect 4,000,000 pointless chests again in this game. Thanks
tactical20
Lol!
tactical20
All over this! Gotta say I’m very much enjoying AC Chronicles too.
SamBeThyName
I’ve played every AC game since the first one and I decided that I’m going to knock them on the head for a while. My yearly AC Xmas present has started to fill like a chore that I have to get though before I can go on to new gaming experiences. Of course this is probably total bullshit and I will cave in, get it, feel I have collect/complete everything I swear that I wont do it again next year!
three_leg_jake
God help us if the driving is like Watch Dogs!
MP in AC is pleasantly different from normal shooters but not enough for me to play the hours required to get the Platinum.
Haven’t played the most recent AC so may give this a whirl.