Ubisoft Unveils Assassin's Creed: Unity

Finally! I skipped AC3 and AC4 because i wanted large cities to explore and climb, not the woods and shanty towns they gave me in the last two game.

Really excited for this since the last AC game i played was almost 3 years ago.

Has anyone made the "I'm french I surrender" joke yet?

I have to say that French revolution is not as cool as Feudal Japan or ANY of the big revolutions in Japan's rich history. Both from an ascetic choice and from a historically interesting point of view. Even some one who is not at all into history knows the french had a hard on for chopping people's heads off but so did the Japanese but the Japanese did it for much more interesting reasons.

French revolution in a nut shell;

Bunch of dudes play some tennis and stick a ball in king louie's ass. Then then write a new constitution every year, go to war with all of Europe, kill a king and bunch of their own, then in the end a short man from Corsica takes over the country. Then some shit in Russia happens but that is another story.

I guess it is the most interesting time in french history that continues moving the AC timeline forward, and it is a french game studio...

Because the beginning of the fucking trailer even calls it "next gen". I'm fine with dropping the semantic debate though, because it's going nowhere fast, and it's really not that fucking difficult to write XB1 and PS4. Nobody is making games for Wii U anyway.

The word "unity" predates the creation of that game engine.

Also, no it won't. You think the average Joe Bro gamer cares about game engines?

What about Assassin's Creed: Future Japan.

looks very pretty but unless the mechanics are overhauled I can't do another one of these.

I am really curious what the Last-Gen game is now. Is it the same setting? I remember when Ubisoft Shanghai did the 360 version of Double Agent and Ubisoft Montreal did the Xbox/PS2 versions. They were both distinctly different games and the last gen version was actually better.

Two different Assassin's Creed games with different plot, different characters and a different environment could be pretty cool. That is a lot of Assassin's Creed to play but if they are anywhere near as fun as AC4 that could be pretty cool.

I want an Assassin's Creed game set in 1960's Soviet Russia. Now that would be fucking awesome.

It's French, so they'll have sex and smoke cigs.

I know very, very little about this type of history but in my head, when I think of French revolution it seems awfully similar to the type of eras the series has already covered. Anybody want to try and get me excited with some cool knowledge / awesome events they might pull from this setting?

I still remember when Micheal Pacter predicted AC 2 would be set in Revolutionary Paris, I guess he was off by only 5 games.

@zaapp1 said:

I would argue the average game buying public is barely aware of the names and specifics of game engines. Or at the very least couldn't care less and wouldn't even think about it. So.

Man, after Black Flag I would expect people to be more excited for this game.

1. Ubisoft is the same company that did a downgrade on Watch Dogs' graphics, then have the nards to put "Next Gen Starts Here" in their logo? Laughable.

2. Ubisoft is the same company that did a downgrade on Watch Dogs' graphics, then think that I'm going to be impressed with a bunch of "alpha footage" that I'm sure will see a downgrade to more realistic proportions in the next few months?

3. Assassin's Creed in the French Revolution... Wasn't this rumored, like, three or four years ago? It's about time.

Beyond that, I haven't even touched AC3 or AC4, so I don't honestly know how invested I am in Assassin's Creed as a whole at this point. I know that Ubisoft has rubbed me the wrong way too much lately...so I'm not inclined to rush out and buy their products.

Assassins Creed: Van Halen

@dryker: Well Ancient Egypt might not happen but the French Revolution would easily tie into a sequel set in Egypt or even sections set in Egypt based on how long the time line lasts for.

The big question for your part in that has to be which side Napoleon represents. Templar or Assassin.

At the rate Ubisoft are spewing these out, we should reach my home country of Scotland pretttty soon!

Paris in the fall. The last months of the year, and the end of the millennium. The city holds many memories for me. Of cafés, of music, of love... and of death.

It sucks they'll just keep making these.

First of all, I only mentioned Japan because the person whose original comment I was quoting mentioned that setting. I personally don't care about Japan, nor do I care a whit for AC, but it would be a nice change of pace for the series. The devs stating that a non-European setting wouldn't work because of lack of tall structures is bullshit and indicates a lack of creativity on their part. No wonder the series is so stale if "climb up big tower" is a sacred tenet of their design philosophy. And though you may be in denial, eurocentrism exists and is a real issue. So please take your half-witted attempts at mockery elsewhere and try harder next time.

In the same boat but unless there is a drastic gameplay shake-up, I'm not biting. Seriously, this is how they get you. Last one was kinda eh, new one has a cool looking location with tons of promise and in the process you end up conveniently forgetting how shitty the last one was.

@creativecolossi: AC3 didn't have much in the way of tall structures but they tried to figure it out and were partly successful. The lineage doesn't matter anymore because Connor isn't an issue. In a game about silent assassins what better setting is there than Japan. Maybe you really dislike ninjas and so forth because of the cult status the Internet has elevated that entire time period into, and I get that sort of. At the same time I think that ninjas, blending, samurai swords, poison darts so on and so forth would be perfect for the series. What better way to jump start Assassins Creed into the next generation than by moving it across the globe into completely foreign lands. Start in Japan and then travel to China and Korea before the second world war. To me it makes perfect sense and quite frankly I'm really tired of Renaissance/Gothic architecture.

Great, another Ubi game with an overly ambitious trailer.

is it just me or did that look like an ad for the third Dark Souls game.

I hope it is better optimized for PC and 60 FPS.

This is Unity and not a full numbered sequel, Assassin's Creed V may very well be set in Egypt. And with the amount of new assets that would need to be developed to do a setting like that, they would need a lot more time than the time it's been since IV. Not to mention, their claim to fame, parkour, would be possible but difficult in Ancient Egypt. That being said, Ancient Egypt would be rad.

@humanity: The devs have stated repeatedly in many an interview that Japan makes no sense for the series. There's no lineage tie in, and once you climb Himeji Castle you're basically done considering the only tall structures in Japan up until the Meiji Restoration were (uncommon) three-story wooden structures and castles, with a pagoda or two in there.

There are interesting things they can do, but calling the series out for "eurocentrism" and wanting to transplant it to a setting based purely on "I like Japan better (because girls)" is a really poor argument. They did America, the Caribbean, hell even the Ottoman Empire. Diverse locales are not the issue, its the repetitive themes and structure of the series that is the main offender in it growing stagnant.

We've had three entire games with Ezio in Europe, how many AC have we had with those generic ninjas? People are just tired of the architecture and setting. I want to see something radically different.

@nasar7: "I'm so tired of "eurocentrism" from a developer based in France. Please give me generic ninjas instead. Also something about one revolution beeing "cooler" than another."

@fisk0: It's not based on last-gen tech, but its "raw power output" isn't that much better than last-gen tech. They made some sacrifices so the gamepad idea would work. It's an interesting strategy, but when you're talking about games like this, games that need a lot of raw power output, Wii U gets left out.

Regardless, I'm tentatively excited for this game. I skipped Black Flag because ACIII was so bad it actually insulted me, and even though I know people say Black Flag was good, no really man it was, they've still strayed so far from the parts of the series I actually want to play (like, ya know, assassinating people) that I still had zero interest in it. This looks like maybe, just mayyyyybe, they're gonna get back to the core tenets of the franchise, and if nothing else, wow, that looks really nice. I'm ready for AC to set the bar for graphics again.

Same here. Maybe ubisoft has the same problem, cause this is pretty obviously not the final visual quality on "last gen".

But the Wii U isn't based on last gen tech, it's just designed with low power consumption rather than performance in mind. Comparable 2005 hardware performance wise would use a lot of power and generate a lot of heat, in turn causing the loud fans that was an issue for many on the 360 and PS3. There's more to technological progression than raw power output, and focusing on energy efficiency makes sense considering the target demographic - they've built a machine using reliable components, that runs relatively silent and can probably take some of the mistreatment you can expect from kids. Too bad they just named the machine in a way that fails to convey that it is a new machine rather than a pricy add-on to that same crowd.

Same. We need to drop 'generation' as a means of labeling specific consoles from our diction as a culture.

Me neither.

Current-gen = Xbox One, PC, and PS4. 360, PS3, and, based on tech, WII U are last-gen. Anyway, that's how I see it.

Wohoo! I'm such a sucker for AC... GIMME!

I think I might skip this one for a while unless there really is nothing to play at release. Typically I let my wife get me whatever the new AC is for Christmas...hopefully I will still be enthralled with Destiny by the time this comes out.

Saw the geometry and simple reflections, thought "Yeah this could work." Saw the textures, thought "Maybe unlikely at that good." Saw the depth of field and smoke overlays, "Not gonna happen".

Also Similar to AC IV It shows that it's better to wait for the review since broken games like AC III can ship, but don't necessarily mean the franchise is dead either.

@zaapp1: You're right. It won't. Because why would it.