Assassin’s Creed III Going to World War II
With Altair in the original Assassin’s Creed crusading medieval times and Ezio running amok during the Renaissance, the developers at Ubisoft have superbly crafted an ingenious universe that offers both versatility and room for innovations in the event of a future iteration. Fortunately, this is the exploit Ubisoft plans to use.
Sébastien Puel, producer of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed II, revealed the publisher’s ideas about setting the next Assassin’s Creed title in the World War II, where yet another one of Desmond’s ancestors reaps the Allied and Axis forces of assailants with his tactical assassinations. But what if “he” is a “she”? According to Sébastien Puel:
“Where would that make sense? We don’t want to just decide we want to change and have a female hero as the first inspiration is always the time period, but if you’re talking about, say, World War II the economies in England and France were run by women because the men were off fighting.”
The creative director of the series, Patrice Fortier, also hinted at the series’ expansion beyond the original plan of a trilogy:
“What’s so great about Assassin’s Creed is that we can just expand and expand. I’m often asked if we’re doing a third game after ACII… I mean, we could do 35 of these,”
With Assassin’s Creed II dropping on November 17th, the excitement and anticipation is only going to rise. What would you like to see in the Assassin’s Creed series? Perhaps an iteration taking place in the rock ‘n roll era?
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October 15th, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Why not set it in the World War that was supposedly sparked off by an assassination? You know, the one that hasn’t already had 5,000 games based on it. Besides, we’re already getting a WWII Assassin’s Creed… it’s called Saboteur.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:52 AM
I understand that developers and companies need to think about this ahead of time, but for the sake of the consumers please keep this kinda stuff to yourself guys. Lets just have the game first, played it for a month or two then maybe think “hey this would be cool” then work from there.
October 15th, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Your article titles should have a question mark… They said it “Could” be set in WWII. In the same way that they *could* do 35 games, and it *could* have a female lead.
As for their idea of WWII, please don’t. There are so many other areas to covers… Ancient Athens, 400 BCish, would be fantastic!
October 15th, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Don’t they have to follow a timeline of the games? I believe that there is a certain storyline connecting all the past games so just throwing around time periods wouldnt make it good.
Personally I think the idea of a female assassin would be badass.
October 15th, 2009 at 1:25 PM
that sounds like an absolutely amazing idea, the Assassin’s Creed concept moving into WWII…
The only thing I would worry about is moving that far forward in history will slim down the possibilities of sequels after that…there aren’t really any great historical movements since WWII that the Assassin’s Creed concept would fit in to…Are you going to throw him into Vietnam or Iraq?? I don’t think so…I think they should keep taking smaller steps through history so that they have the potential to make more sequels…a Civil War based Assassin’s Creed would be kind of cool or even the Revolutionary War, though the rest of the world wouldn’t necessarily care much about those scenarios. Also, I feel like the Assassin’s Creed formula fits in better with a more “romantic” period of time, I think they would have to change things a lot to make it fit into anything within the last 150 years.
October 15th, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Most disappointing thing I’ve read this week. Female assassin would be cool, but WWII? That smacks of a serious lack of imagination. At least the art assets would be plentiful, so they would save a lot of dev money on that.
There is just no reason to be running around that time period climbing walls, jumping around roofs and not using a relatively high-powered gun / rifle. I hope this is just a rumour and never comes to pass.
October 15th, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Assassins creed 10,000 B.C. dinosaurs always add a nice touch to a videogame.
Personally I think Ass Creed jumped the shark, but that’s just my opinion.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:13 PM
It would be stupid to jump in to WWII. There is probably so much they can cover, making a huge jump in time would leave no room for a sequal. Also guns were the weapons off choice in that era. Imagine a assassin trying to take a gun from a dude he was fighting. He probably get shot before he got within 10 feet. About the female thing it sounds good but think about this if you were a assassin would you go off and fight for the country you were in or go into hideing. Then come back and kill with you gun or blade. Please Ubisoft dont be stupid. AC 1 was awsome, AC 2 will be awsome but please dont ruin somthing like Assassins Creed.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:08 PM
World War One. WORLD WAR ONE!!!
October 15th, 2009 at 7:22 PM
i think the World War 2 time period wouldn’t fit good into assassins creed, the guns would make it so much harder
October 15th, 2009 at 7:28 PM
The guns in WWII is pretty modern for the atmosphere in AC games.
October 15th, 2009 at 7:33 PM
why not an assassin’s creed based in modern time, like maybe stop having that guy go into an memory thingy and have him like brake out or something and the people start to try and capture him or kill him and he has to learn the way of the assassin’s and become an assassin him self and he gets to do all the cool moves and get the cool weapons and even way modern weapons. i think that would be cool.
October 15th, 2009 at 8:28 PM
let’s also put it as a FPS
October 15th, 2009 at 10:23 PM
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October 16th, 2009 at 4:16 AM
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October 16th, 2009 at 5:51 AM
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October 16th, 2009 at 2:30 PM
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October 16th, 2009 at 3:43 PM
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October 16th, 2009 at 6:55 PM
@jasperloons
that was WW1 that was started becasue of an assination not WW2 which started due to the fall of the League of nations and adolf hitler and the nazis attacking poland. I hope this isn’t the setting for the third assasin’s creed, it just seems out of place for a setting now we’ve have the medevil and renaissance era of time though just to see how ubisoft would do this is worth seeing ACIII In this era.
October 18th, 2009 at 5:41 AM
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