Assassin’s Creed Franchise Might Skip 2016, Bring Egyptian Setting In 2017 – Rumor

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While the Assassin’s Creed franchise has become a yearly event along the likes of the Call of Duty franchise and the seemingly endless number of sports video games, a new rumor started circulating this week that would mean the franchise is skipping 2016 entirely. Instead, the next game won’t be coming out until 2017, if the rumors can be believed and the structure and physics of the game might be getting a bit of an overhaul.

Of course, the rumors surrounding an Assassin’s Creed game that would take place in Egypt are coming from the 4Chan community at this point, so we should definitely take them with a giant grain of salt. The rumors talk about a video from an previously untitled Ubisoft game titled Osiris that surfaced a few years ago. At the time it surfaced most people thought it was a new Prince of Persia game but that talk has now shifted. “Egypt. There won’t be an AC in 2016. You may screencap this [the video] and refer to it when nothing is shown in E3 2016. You’ll have to wait until 2017 for it. The reason: It will be a complete revamp of the series. The game is going for a Witcher feel, with player progression, freeform combat system. Horse is back, and boats too. It’s made by the Black Flag team. You may leave any question you want answered,” the post said.

Of course, there is going to be a kind of AC game this year even if its not a full version. The full Assassin’s Creed: Chronicles is going live later this year.

Source: GamingBolt

[DarthMol]

The series definitely needs a break. I've long given up trying to keep up.

[PsychoFish]

Good riddance, hopefully the next release will be better than the last few

[Wlad]

Only Unity was crap, the rest are all still good games IMO.

Looking forward to this one. Egypt!!

[Glordit]

The series definitely needs a break. I've long given up trying to keep up.

Hopefully with a longer development time, Ubisoft can actually deliver a better game. Performance and game-play wise.

[Wlad]

Hopefully with a longer development time, Ubisoft can actually deliver a better game. Performance and game-play wise.

By longer development time do you mean longer than a year? Because contrary to popular belief AC games are not developed in a year. They each had a development cycle of at least 3 - 4 years. If you knew that, please ignore this.

I do agree that they need to take a break if they plan to completely reinvent the franchise though.

[Glordit]

By longer development time do you mean longer than a year? Because contrary to popular belief AC games are not developed in a year. They each had a development cycle of at least 3 - 4 years. If you knew that, please ignore this.

I do agree that they need to take a break if they plan to completely reinvent the franchise though.

I understand that the development time is much longer than a year. One would hope that the extra year would let them properly test the game on all systems, giving them time to get more performance and visual fidelity out of the game.

I too also agree with the reinvention, AC had become stale as of late.

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The biggest concern is that once the base game is almost completed by the development team it is then coasted along with other smaller teams, to fill in everything that needs to be done. The main team then moves onto another project starting all over again. An example of this, and I may be speaking under correction but, I recall shortly after Unity was launched there was an announcement, that Syndicate was already in the works.

[Wlad]

I understand that the development time is much longer than a year. One would hope that the extra year would let them properly test the game on all systems, giving them time to get more performance and visual fidelity out of the game.

I too also agree with the reinvention, AC had become stale as of late.

Then we are completely in agreement.