Nope. I'm okay, Ubisoft.

The anglophile in me is squealing with joy. The AC dissenter in me is inwardly groaning. I want this to be a good game because I want a good game with the scope an AC game can be set in this time-frame... it's just that it is going to be an AC game. My least favorite parts of Black Flag was every moment I spent off the ship and unless they go full naval again, that's what this game will be.

I'm not sure what they could do here that would make me fall back in love with this series. In a sense they would have to reinvent the wheel for a series that is stuck in the mud and that's not going to happen.

What if Ubisoft just made a really cool game set in Victorian London and forewent all this tired AC silliness. Hell, it can even remain stealth and maybe even open world. Just give this franchise a rest, and maybe branch out of the Ubi Ur-game formula.

Can't wait until Assassin's creed goes the way of the Dodo. Soooo many good IPs Ubisoft could be making but they put so much effort and spend so many man hours in Assassin's Creed games that rarely play differently from each other. They keep this up and the market will be over saturated with Assassin's Creed games and ultimately it will end up like guitar hero.

Meanwhile, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is sitting in a cesspool somewhere in the nether regions of Ubisoft's offices.....

If it was any other setting I wouldn't be too excited. All things considered, I wouldn't mind seeing this pushed to 2016

This was my dream setting besides the French Revolution. Then I bought Unity.

Fuck off, Ubisoft.

At this point they should just say fuck it and base the next game in a massive expanse of desert and call it Assassins Creed: Fuck-all. The lack of towers to climb and people to stab would be a refreshing change of pace. You could spend your time on four hour long chase missions pursuing mirages to your death, after which the game deliberately bricks your console and calls the cops on you for buying another AC game and thus perpetuating this never ending stream of THE SAME OLD SHIT.

I'm not even that mad really, I just wish Ubisoft would invest some time in new IP that does not all follow the same formula. I like Far Cry 4, but if the next game is just more of the same I will not be buying it.

Victorian London

Aaaand I'm back.

"Instead of commenting on the growing invasiveness of industrialisation, we decided to make a game about climbing Big Ben."

I'm giving this franchise a break for a couple of years. Really enjoyed BF and AC 2 before that but these releases are way too frequent for me.

There's a reason why the word "ass" appears twice in the title of these games.

7 years later and people keep making this joke.

Still no female assassin?

Are you serious? http://www.giantbomb.com/aveline-de-grandpre/3005-23439/

I don't know, I still think cold war division era Berlin would be the most interesting setting for one of these games.

Look, 50% of the world population, we gave you a crappy PSP side game 4 years ago and, AND, a crappy sidescroller set in China this year. What the hell else do you need?

Irrelevant.

I will play this game if it turns out the player character is Jack the Ripper and all the women he killed were actually evil templar informants.

Why do all these AAA companies insist on releasing a new sequel every year? Not even movies hold that tight of a schedule, and they're easier to make than games. Can't they just stick to a 2-year schedule?

@thornie: I got it on a similar system (770) Hopefully it runds well, but I'm not very enthusiastic about the gameplay

Yeaaa, I'm over these games. Turned into trash real quick.

Not a fan of the Assassins Creed series really, but would show interest if they decided to make one set in feudal Japan. The characters that you play all move around and strike like Ninjas, so why not be a Ninja? For a game like this though, they'd do a lot better to release it on a 2 year cycle. People won't be completely sick of it, and it gives the teams a much more time to do something of merit that's more ambitious. It's a shame that their decisions are driven by only this years profits instead of creating something of high quality.

I really just don't even care anymore. This series is done.

Hey look,the next Mario and Zelda game has been leaked. Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnx10.

It just seemed needlessly cynical to me. Why not just wait and take the game on its own merits? It's not like this yearly crap comes down from on high, there are still people in ubisoft actually TRYING to make art despite all that. People who are in positions to sway a cultural narrative should exercise responsibility is all I'm saying.

I noticed that half of London is on fire. This must be set during the fire of 1666.

Assassin's Creed really needs to win the Take A Break Award from GB this year. I'd love to run around Victorian London but I'd prefer to do it two years from now and give Assassin's Creed some breathing room.

Hey is Jack The Ripper gonna be an Assassin? Hey, is Jack The Ripper going to be an Assassin? Is Jack The Ripper going to be an Assassin?

One way the Assassins Creed series can save itself, is by stopping with the Europe locations. We've played though enough of them. Time to expand the universe and include places like Asia, Africa, and so forth. Oh, and they can take the time to make a decent PC port. Assassins Creed IV worked fine on most capable PC's, I don't know what happened with Unity. But the series never really recovered after the horrible conclusion of Desmond's story in ACIII. Black Flag, was a good distraction, but Unity brought those memories back.

Not to mention how the Assassins are starting to look like self centered bastards, while the Templar's look like men and women whom are dedicated to their beliefs, no matter how evil they seem.

I shouldn't be looking forward to this after the Unity debacle and not having really liked Assassin's since II. But I lived in London for a little bit and am unreasonably excited to wander around and just see what I recognise.

Cool, I guess.

GOODBYE UBISOFT! I will never ever buy a ass creed game again. You guys have disappointed me too many times.

May I introduce you to a game called Alpha Protocol?

I'm sorry but at this point in the game fuck ubisoft, after watch dogs, unity, and the shit I had to do to get fc4 going properly on my PC I'm pretty much done, Im going to vote no on ubisofts proposition victory.