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Looking Back To Move Forward: Where Next For Assassin’s Creed?

Ancient Rome/Egypt

Napoleonic Europe

By far the most requested (or demanded) setting
for the series. Ancient Rome is such a well-versed
and well-recorded segment of Human history that
it’d be easy and undeniably cool to form a brilliant
yarn out of it. With Assassin’s Creed IV taking time
back a short step, there’s no reason to suggest
that Ubisoft wouldn’t take players even further
back. Playing as an ex-Roman soldier or perhaps
a champion Gladiator would certainly mix things
up a bit, and the wealth of historical figures is
incredible. The first Roman civil war would be the
ideal time point, with characters like Julius Ceasar,
Mark Antony and Cleopatra to provide the classic
AC cameos.

Talk about a time of conflict and social upheaval.
This links in with the Revolutionary America theme
of ACIII, and so would form a natural fit for the
next game. With the American setting, we’ve seen
Ubisoft open up the patches of land that your
assassin can cover, so why not have the whole of
Western Europe as a playground? The key cities
of the Napoleonic era, such as Paris, Vienna,
Warsaw and London would all be ideal locations
for beautiful, but also fully playable environments.

Interestingly, the director for ACIV, Ashraf Ismail,
recently noted that he wanted to take the series to
Egypt. Of course, the nation has a rich and diverse
history, but I think it’d work perfectly alongside a
Roman setting. Not the most likely, but certainly
one of the coolest ideas.

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As with ancient Rome, it’d also be an ideal
setting character-wise. Figures like the Duke of
Wellington, Gebhard von Blucher and Napoleon
himself would be fascinating to see blended in to
the ever changing world of Assassin’s Creed. As I
mentioned, it wouldn’t be a far cry from the past
games, so I wouldn’t be shocked to see this arise
some time in the future. Bonus points if Richard
Sharpe is included!

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