{"id":67444,"date":"2014-07-30T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T09:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=67444"},"modified":"2014-07-30T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T09:51:04","slug":"assassins-creed-unity-can-render-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/67444-assassins-creed-unity-can-render-women","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed Unity *can* render women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft really tripped up at E3 2014 when it told gamers that putting playable females into games is super hard and &#8220;difficult to animate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But after the fallout, the Assassin&#8217;s Creed developers obviously want to make good and show off what they have in store in the way of female leads in the upcoming fifth installment in the series: Unity.<\/p>\n<p>In a new trailer, we get a brief introduction to Elise, whom Ubisoft describe as &#8220;an independent young noblewoman&#8221; who is &#8220;determined to secure her place in the Templar dynasty amidst the chaos of the French Revolution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer shows Unity hero, Arno (who everyone will play as) racing against time to save Elise from the guillotine.<\/p>\n<p>While that sounds a bit damsel-in-distress-y, the trailer closes with Elise and Arno teaming up to tackle a whole lot of guards.<\/p>\n<p>She seems more than capable &#8211; so I&#8217;m quite excited to see what she can do, and how her role as a Templar impacts Arno&#8217;s mission and motivations.<\/p>\n<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Unity is pegged for release on 28 October 2014 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gHt2Do0Ggvg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Unity<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/66259-will-assassins-creed-unity-be-delayed-for-pc.html\">Will Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity be delayed for PC?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65803-assassins-creed-unity-gets-4-player-co-op-and-more.html\">Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity gets 4 player co-op and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While you can&#8217;t play as a woman in Ubisoft&#8217;s upcoming stab-em-up, it doesn&#8217;t mean that powerful females won&#8217;t feature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":67446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12177,12756,21],"class_list":["post-67444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-assassins-creed-unity","tag-elise","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67450,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67444\/revisions\/67450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}