An Ode to Assassin's Creed Multiplayer
Ubisoft has recently announced the sunsetting of online services for a litany of games reaching their end-of-life for multiplayer and online functionality. While many of these games' online capability were phased out already, these changes apply to some of the most iconic franchises released by the publisher. Among those are some of the best Assassin's Creed games, and while these services will still be available on several platforms after this, these older games don't see nearly the same amount of players compared to launch. That's a shame, because despite the multiplayer modes being particularly simplistic in nature, it was unlike anything else around at the time.
To some extent that's still true today, even though plenty of other multiplayer genres have risen in popularity in its place. Asymmetrical multiplayer games like Dead by Daylight or the upcoming Evil Dead: The Game, as well as social deduction games like Among Us, are just a few new genres that have proven popular beyond their niche genres. That being said, there aren't too many games out there that have managed to capture a similar gameplay loop as Brotherhood and Revelations' PvP multiplayer. Especially if Ubisoft is taking on a greater live service approach for future titles, Assassin's Creed's PvP multiplayer should return.
What's Next for the Assassin's Creed Franchise: Rift, Nexus, and Infinity
Starting with Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Ubisoft began a successful experiment in adapting the «social stealth» aspects of its single-player stories into a PvP framework. From there, Assassin's Creed Revelations, Assassin's Creed 3, and Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag iterated on various different competitive modes that had players controlling Templars (posing as
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