{"id":73837,"date":"2015-04-01T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=73837"},"modified":"2015-04-01T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T11:57:02","slug":"assassins-creed-chronicles-is-yet-another-trilogy-gasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/73837-assassins-creed-chronicles-is-yet-another-trilogy-gasp","title":{"rendered":"Assassin\u2019s Creed Chronicles is yet another trilogy, gasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft isn\u2019t exactly the most innovative developer at the moment, so the announcement of a new <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed <\/em>trilogy is hardly going to blow your hair back. That said, <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Chronicles<\/em> is a little different from what you\u2019re used to seeing from the franchise, quite literally in this case.<\/p>\n<p><em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Chronicles: China<\/em>, <em>India<\/em> and <em>Russia<\/em> look to be inspired by <em>Child of Light<\/em> and <em>Valiant Hearts: The Great War<\/em>; we\u2019re talking aesthetic design here and it\u2019s actually rather flattering. Speaking of which, is it just us or is <em>Chronicles\u2019<\/em> visual style somewhat reminiscent of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_of_Persia_%282008_video_game%29\"><em>Prince of Persia <\/em><\/a>from 2008, albeit with a lot more colour and pizzazz?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JapuE16BPrY\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As far as we know, <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Chronicles<\/em> follows a brief stint in the lives of three cult assassins from, as you would have deduced by now, China, India and Russia. Its 2.5D approach is something we\u2019ve known about for a while now, ever since <em>Chronicles: China<\/em> was announced as part of <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity<\/em> season pass. But it\u2019s still an interesting prospect. There\u2019s definitely a lot of potential to do all sorts of things with this new perspective, like a more engaging and challenging combat system for one! Although the trailer isn\u2019t all that promising on that front.<\/p>\n<p>As far as the three titles are concerned, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ubi.com\/assassins-creed-chronicles-china-preview\/\"><em>China<\/em><\/a> takes place in \u201c1526, as the Ming dynasty starts to crumble\u201d. You\u2019ll play Shao Jun, the last Assassin of the Chinese Brotherhood and trained by Ezio Auditore himself. Being the last remaining assassin, you\u2019re going to do whatever is required of you to avenge your fallen brethren.<\/p>\n<p>And as for <a href=\"blog.ubi.com\/assassins-creed-chronicles-india-russia-revealed\/\"><em>India<\/em> and <em>Russia<\/em><\/a>, well they take place in very different time periods from one another \u2013 and from <em>China<\/em> for that matter. Unsurprisingly, they also seem to be about avenging one thing or another. The stories are a little clich\u00e9, but that\u2019s no train smash.<\/p>\n<p>We just hope the prices for each title are within reason and not an excuse to pump out more content, when <em>China<\/em> alone would have been enough. The nationally-inclined artistic flair of each title had better not be the only difference between each three. Introduce new mechanics in each please, Ubisoft. <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Chronicles: China<\/em> starts the journey on April 22<sup>nd<\/sup> on PC, Xbox One and PS4.<\/p>\n<p>One last thing: It\u2019s pretty standard for Ubisoft to spend many an hour or more picking just the right song for each <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed <\/em>trailer, was it just right this time? Did you enjoy the trailer? Let us know, as well as what you think of the trilogy in general, in the comments and forums.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allgamesbeta.com\/2015\/03\/assassins-creed-chronicles-trilogy.html\">All Games Beta<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another trilogy, but this one&#8217;s a little bit different. It&#8217;s got 0.5 less D and a lot more colour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":73841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13451,1969,15397,1853,733,10065],"class_list":["post-73837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-assassins-creed-chronicles","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-playstation4","tag-ubisoft","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73837","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}