New Assassin's Creed Will Reportedly Bring Back Stealth, No Open-World
The next Assassin’s Creed will supposedly move away from the open-world format of previous installments and put further emphasis on stealth. Ubisoft just announced that it is working on a new standalone Assassin’s Creed game centered around Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s Basim earlier today, and that this was originally going to serve as an expansion to last year’s hit historical action title before being fleshed out into a full game.
When the original Assassin’s Creed was first released back in 2007, players were greeted with a smooth stealth system that allowed them to lurk in the shadows and take down targets with the franchise’s signature Hidden Blades while uncovering the truth behind an ancient conspiracy across a variety of different locations and time periods. However, as the series went on, later installments like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey started to move away from this approach in favor of larger-scale battles and RPG elements. While stealth would return in the form of infiltration missions in AC Valhalla’s Siege of Paris DLC, many longtime fans have come to wish that the series would return to the shadowy assassinations that made the franchise such a hit in the first place.
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As part of today’s big Assassin’s Creed announcement, Bloomberg reports that the next AC title will have a greater emphasis on stealth, just like the older titles. Codenamed “Rift," this new installment will also do away with the large open-world settings of previous AC games, as it will be smaller in scope than Valhalla or Odyssey. According to Bloomberg’s anonymous sources, the next Assassin’s Creed game will supposedly release sometime either later this year or early 2023.
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