Ubisoft Montreal has indicated that Assassin’s Creed will return with a new game next year, as the developer looks to conclude Desmond’s tale in the saga before December 2012.
Assassin’s Creed: Revelations won’t be out for another month, but that hasn’t stopped Ubisoft from thinking about the future of the franchise, and for good reason. The franchise centers heavily around that troublesome Mayan prophecy about the world ending in December 21, 2012, a date that’s a little over fourteen months away.
Speaking to Eurogamer, the firm’s Alexandre Amacio commented, “In Assassin’s Creed we set up a timeline with this whole end of the world plot of December 2012.”
“That’s fast approaching, and the story we have to tell, we obviously need to do it before we arrive at that point.”
“We had such a complex and strong narrative that we ourselves did our best to just try to execute these games before that date,” he added. “It would be stupid of us to be centring a game on a semi-reality and then have that conclusion happen after that date in real life.”
Amacio reiterated that both Ezio and Altair’s story will be tied up in the forthcoming Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, and hinted that the series will return with a new protagonist once Desmond’s tale has wrapped.
“Assassin’s Creed is all about cycles – we have the Ezio cycle and the Altair cycle, and both of those are set to conclude in Revelations and we have the Desmond cycle, which is set to end on December 2012 in Assassin’s Creed III,” explained Amacio. “But there’s many cycles within the brand – that’s the whole point. History is our playground.”
Even more surprising may be that after December 2012 Assassin’s Creed III, the schedule will slow down for the series. , indicating the annual release schedule the celebrated stab-‘em-up series has enjoyed since AC: Brotherhood will likely come to an end.
“We’re already structuring the way we do Assassin’s Creed, so it will no longer ever be like that,” said Amacio. “Our development approach is changing so our cycles aren’t structured the same way – so it gives us a little bit more development time.”
Assassin’s Creed Revelations launches November 15th, 2011 for the PS3, Xbox 360 and 2nd December 2011 for PC.
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