Assassin's Creed Infinity to Hold True to Series 'Legacy of Rich Narrative Experiences' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 20 July 2021 / 1,193 Views
Ubisoft following a report confirmed earlier this month Assassin's Creed Infinity is the codename for an early-in-development Assassin's Creed project.
Ubisoft Chief Financial Officer Frederick Duguet speaking during an earnings call with investors said the game will stay true to the series rich narrative experiences.
"Regarding the project codename Infinity, we have exciting plans for the future that have the potential to significantly expand both the brand's reach and the recurring profile while holding true to Assassin's Creeds' legacy of rich narrative experiences," said Duguet. "It is in the early stages of development and we will share more details in due time."
Duguet also discussed Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Quebec and how the two studios will be collaborating on the game rather than going back and forth between releases. Ubisoft Montreal developed Assassin's Creed Origins and Valhalla, while Ubisoft Quebec developed Odyssey.
"Rather than continuing to pass the baton from game to game, we profoundly believe this is an opportunity for one of Ubisoft's most beloved franchises to evolve in a more integrated and collaborative manner that’s less centered on studios and more focused on talent and leadership, no matter where they are within Ubisoft," he said.
"Most importantly, Assassin's Creed has always been developed by multicultural teams with various backgrounds and perspectives that have influenced the depiction of its characters, locations, and cultures. While we know there’s always room for improvement, we believe this new structure allows us to ensure that diversity and representation within our teams continues to grow and match that of our players."
Duguet during the earnings call also talked about the second year of DLC for Assassin's Creed Valhalla and says the content is ambitious and will surprise players.
"We will continue to deliver powerful Assassin's Creed content over the coming months and years, starting with an ambitious post-launch plan for Valhalla, including the Siege of Paris expansion coming this summer, the release of the Discovery Tour Viking Age, and a very ambitious and surprising second year of content for the first time in the franchise’s history," Duguet said.
"We are pushing the live service model to a level that allows Valhalla to be the best performer ever for the franchise to date, and we will be coming with exciting and new news and surprising announcements, including for the second year of content."
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Uh huh.........
Sadly they aren't being true to their roots, of being a stealth game. The game has gone in the wrong direction, years now sadly.
Agreed. The gameplay mechanics are fun, but the campaigns are fucking slog. Not stealth games anymore given the amount of hack n' slash I have to do.
I look forward to replaying AC:Unity with the recent Xbox Series upgrades. But I'm done with new releases since Odyssey.
But it makes sense if u followed the story. U can't have assasin abilities and all stealth when games like origins and oddysey is set in era that's before assasin or even the creed exist. It wouldn't make sense as a result. Vahalla has the most because assasins and creed exist but not as fully as the earlier games.
So why make the game? It's just a cash grab. If they can't work out how to make an assassins stealth game set in some time era, they aare incompetent.
Not a cash grab. Wouldn't u want to know how the creed from? Who was the first assasin that started the creed. What was it started, how was it started and from which country did it come. from. These are legitimate questions worth exploring to fully flash out the series. There are people like myself who like to play games where there's a start, middle and end to the franchise where the it a gets tied together nicely. That's what ubsifot ants of the series. Assassin creed series is not about assasins. Having endless games of just stealth and assasinating people in different era gets boring. That's probably the biggest reason why it changed. Assasin creed syndicate sales dropped heaps as people didn't buy much of the game due to being burnout for having the same style of gameplay for many years. That's probably what triggered them to already start the backstory for it.
It's because they got lazy and couldn't find new ways of stealth. Especially with new console and generations leap of AI and physics, ram and so on, there is a lot they could have done stealth wise. But it wasn't just the combat that changed, a lot of the sidequests and even main were just average and nothing special, a lot of rinse and repeat.
I am sure they could have changed it up a bit but by the time syndicate game along, it would have been stale. There's only so much u can do. Splinter cellHowever they have to tell a story and they can't tell a story if they include mechanics that wouldn't exist in a story that happens before the mechanics existed. For me the older game side quest were boring as hell, especially when 90 percent was just collecting stuff. For me the best side quest was origins and oddysey as they had story that impacted the outcome in the single player game and u get to learn the other major characters that u don't have control. U get to learn more about them. How is that type of side quest bad? I haven't finished vahalla but so far it's pretty good especially the raids :)
"Holds true to Series Legacy", you know, with some Grand Theft Auto mixed in...
And loot boxes!
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