Ubisoft CEO Confirms Multiple Assassin's Creed Remakes Are on the Way - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 October 2024 / 3,709 Views
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot in an interview posted on Ubisoft's official website revealed multiple Assassin's Creed remakes are on the way.
"Firstly, players can be excited about some remakes, which will allow us to revisit some of the games we've created in the past and modernize them," said Guillemot when asked about the future of the franchise and if fans can expect more variety with smaller games alongside bigger ones. "There are worlds in some of our older Assassin's Creed games that are still extremely rich.
"Secondly, to answer your question, there will be plenty of experience variety. The goal is to have Assassin's Creed games come out more regularly, but not for it to be the same experience every year. There are a lot of good things to come, including Assassin's Creed Hexe, which we've announced, which is going to be a very different game from Assassin's Creed Shadows. We're going to surprise people, I think."
There was a report in July 2023 that a remake of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is in development by Ubisoft. The game first released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U in October 2013, followed by the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in November 2013, the Nintendo Switch Switch in December 2019, and Google Stadia in September 2021.
The next entry in the franchise, Assassin's Creed Shadows, will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC on November 15 for $69.99.
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I'm sure they will also require an internet connection to play a single player game of mediocre creed.
very important. With all my new remasters having it always connected online makes sure it is the most mediocre experience!
This is the worst timeline.
I just don't believe that a graphical overhaul would give the old Creeds new life in a significant way.
I would assume they will be doing more than just a graphics update on these older AC games. They already released remasters of 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, and 3 that updated the graphics somewhat. I think they are talking about full-on modernized remakes, not only fully up to date graphics, but also quality of life improvements such as the removal or toning down of the notoriety systems in 1-3 (which ended up being mostly busy work to pad out the game), improving the combat, improving the parkour, improving eagle vision, etc. They may also make some of the cities larger to bring them closer to the proper scale, some of the cities in the first 2 games in particular are way smaller than cities in later games in the cities, for instance AC1's Damascus is only 0.13 km squared while AC2's Florence was only 0.3 km square and AC2's Venice only 0.37 km squared, while cities in later games ranged from 0.92 km squared up to 3.7 km squared. They may also add some new side quests and stuff to make a few of the shorter games like AC1 and AC2 closer in size to some of the more recent games.
They seem to be starting with a remake of 4, which needs less updating than the earlier games, a graphics overhaul and a few minor quality of life improvements are really all it needs. But once they move to the remakes of 1, the Ezio Trilogy, and possibly 3, they will definitely need to improve more things than just graphics.
Oh, wow. Okay. It's a whole thing, then. I'm good personally, but it's nice for newcomers to get a fresh take.
Thanks for the explanation.
I’m not if I’d end uo getting them, but remakes that add quality of life improvements to some of the earlier entries would certainly help them appeal to a modern audience.
AC2 for example, whilst held up as the peak of the series along with Black Flag, is very awkward to play now as the pakour system is very cumbersome compared to more modern instalments.
i guess after capcoms success i guess we will be seeing more of this.
Every new Assassin's Creed game is practically already a fucking remake.
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