This has got to be the leakiest franchise in the gaming industry, but hey, that’s just one of the reasons we love it. I can’t quite remember the last Assassin’s Creed announcement that wasn’t presaged by a series of completely accurate rumors, and this latest installment is no exception. The big Assassin’s Creed game this year will be Unity, a massive next-gen only title set during the French revolution, but Ubisoft has long hinted that it had something up its sleeve for Xbox 360 and PS3 owners as well. The company confirmed today that that game will be Assassin’s Creed: Rogue, coming out November 11th.
The official trailer features an irishy templar (albeit a templar with an assassinish hood) strolling through a field reflecting on the nature of history and posterity. He then comes upon a wounded assassin and, we assume, shoots him dead while remarking that he’s pleased with his decision to follow “his own creed.” So we know that this templar, whose name is Shay Patrick Cormac, is a rogue, but the particular manner in which he is a rogue is a little unclear.
According to Game Informer, Rogue will form “the cornerstone” of the Kenway trilogy, which also contains Assassin’s Creed 3 and 4. It takes place during the events of the Seven Year’s War, and aims to bring some of the swashbuckling naval adventures of Assassin’s Creed 4 to some North American locales. That war is part of what led to a financially ruined French government, so there’s going to be some overlap with Unity. The fact that the relationship between the Seven Year’s War and the French Revolution is now the subject of a major video game is a little bit surreal: here’s hoping that the game doesn’t succumb to some of the overwrought historical tourism that plagued Assassin’s Creed 3.
The last time Ubisoft made what we could consider an “also-ran” Assassin’s Creed game was Liberation for the Vita, and it doesn’t bode entirely well for quality control. Despite being set in New Orleans, which all games all the time should be, the finished product was buggy, boring and odd — a potentially interesting abolitionist narrative was totally overshadowed by traditional Assassin’s Creed weirdness, and fans had to wait for 2013′s Freedom Cry to get the first actually good game in the series with a black protagonist. The template of Assassin’s Creed 4 couldn’t be stronger, though, so there’s a possibility we could close out this year with not one, but two quality AC games.
The official trailer features an irishy templar (albeit a templar with an assassinish hood) strolling through a field reflecting on the nature of history and posterity. He then comes upon a wounded assassin and, we assume, shoots him dead while remarking that he’s pleased with his decision to follow “his own creed.” So we know that this templar, whose name is Shay Patrick Cormac, is a rogue, but the particular manner in which he is a rogue is a little unclear.
According to Game Informer, Rogue will form “the cornerstone” of the Kenway trilogy, which also contains Assassin’s Creed 3 and 4. It takes place during the events of the Seven Year’s War, and aims to bring some of the swashbuckling naval adventures of Assassin’s Creed 4 to some North American locales. That war is part of what led to a financially ruined French government, so there’s going to be some overlap with Unity. The fact that the relationship between the Seven Year’s War and the French Revolution is now the subject of a major video game is a little bit surreal: here’s hoping that the game doesn’t succumb to some of the overwrought historical tourism that plagued Assassin’s Creed 3.
The last time Ubisoft made what we could consider an “also-ran” Assassin’s Creed game was Liberation for the Vita, and it doesn’t bode entirely well for quality control. Despite being set in New Orleans, which all games all the time should be, the finished product was buggy, boring and odd — a potentially interesting abolitionist narrative was totally overshadowed by traditional Assassin’s Creed weirdness, and fans had to wait for 2013′s Freedom Cry to get the first actually good game in the series with a black protagonist. The template of Assassin’s Creed 4 couldn’t be stronger, though, so there’s a possibility we could close out this year with not one, but two quality AC games.
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