Report: New Assassin’s Creed Will Be Smaller & Focused on Stealth
Ubisoft had already confirmed that the next game, codenamed , would be coming sometime in the future from two of the main studios: Ubisoft Quebec and Ubisoft Montreal. But two new reports have stated that another game will come out before then and is tentatively scheduled for later in 2022 or sometime in 2023.
These two reports about this game (which is codenamed ) come from Bloomberg and Eurogamer. It is supposed to star Basim Ibn Ishaq, who players might know as one of the main assassins (called the “Hidden Ones” in that time period) in the mainly assassin-free . The title is also supposed to be more focused on stealthy gameplay, a fitting style for his affiliation. The past three games have had sneakier elements, but were closer to role-playing games than the stealth genre the series was founded upon. The title will also at least partially take place in Baghdad and will be comparable to “one of [ or ‘s] smaller individual map regions.”
It’s still unclear how large the game will be, but it will reportedly be smaller in scope. The last few entries, mainly and, have caught flak for being overly large world with tons of filler content, so this direction would mark a change for the series. When asked about the game, Ubisoft said it does not comment “on rumors or speculation.”
The outlets stated that started out as an expansion to (one of the ones that reportedly wasn’t canceled), but was fleshed out to be its own game to fill out Ubisoft’s relatively barren release schedule. And even though ‘s huge DLC is on the cusp of releasing, is also likely quite far away, too, meaning there is one less huge franchise the company can depend on.
Ubisoft has a few projects that have taken a long time or are far from releasing, which
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