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

Nazi-Occupied
France
Maybe it’s still a bit
of a touchy area to
explore in real depth,
but then again that
hasn’t stopped half of
the games in modern
history focusing on
the Second World War.
Occupied France is a
part of the war that
hasn’t been looked in
to much (aside from
The Saboteur and some smaller games), so it
could provide some original content. Of course,
Nazis make natural bad guys and it doesn’t take a
stretch of the imagination to picture them as evil
Templars. Still, it would be really interesting to see
the roles reversed, I mean, we know the assassins
were never real goody-goodies.

don’t necessarily fit the AC mechanics. Ubisoft have
found ways to make this work in the small modern
settings in the previous games, but it’s perhaps
safe to say that they’ve never quite matched up to
the historical segments.
The big question is who would a modern setting
follow, now that Desmond has bitten the dust? A
new assassin, perhaps with a bit more charisma
this time, is an enticing idea, and really the only
option Ubisoft has. That is, of course, unless they’re
willing to explore the backstory of side characters
like Daniel Cross or Subject 16.

Of course, a post 19th century setting would
undoubtedly bring a whole new set of mechanics,
something that many AC fans are gasping for.
There is a risk, however, of the game becoming
painfully unfamiliar. Swords and daggers have
always been a natural fit for Assassin’s Creed so I’d
be surprised to see the series go towards a more There are a huge number of options on top of
modern setting.
these, and personally I’d love to see every single
one of them (if only it didn’t hinder the natural
Modern (ACIII Spoiler Warning)
process of gaming evolution). For now though, we
can but sit back a