Right, there's been a lot floating around about the future of Assassin's Creed post-Valhalla, with Ubisoft themselves confirming Assassin's Creed Infinity's existence last year. However, a smaller-scale AC game is supposedly launching before Infinity, and a few more details on that have now leaked.
French YouTuber j0nathan discussed some details about the next Assassin's Creed title in a recent video, including a supposed setting, release window, name and more. Bloomberg's Jason Schreier then confirmed a number of those details via his own sources, backing up a fair bit of what the video went over.
Bloomberg, and Schreier, have a fairly decent track record generally, so we're optimistic about some of the details on 'Assassin's Creed Mirage'. Still, it's all just rumours and reports for now, and the info should be taken as such before Ubisoft officially announces anything.
An announcement could be coming pretty darn soon though. The company has its big Ubisoft Forward event scheduled in less than two weeks, where we'd expect to hear more about Assassin's Creed, Skull & Bones and the rest of Ubisoft's upcoming slate of games.
Liking the sound of Assassin's Creed 'Mirage' so far? Let us know in the comments below.
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Strong inspiration from the first AC you say? Go on, I'm listening.
AC 1 is one of my least favorites AC, but the story was pretty good. I'm still gonna play this one. But I'm more interested in Infinity.
A remake of AC1 is the news I’ve been waiting for. That game really needs a massive overhaul including an actual Middle Eastern actor to voice Altair (instead of Nolan North doing the Desmond voice) and some modern tidying up.
@RadioHedgeFund why does it need someone from the middle East to voice him if they were going for realism most of the characters wouldn't speak English lol
@Would_you_kindly Whether they use English as part of the animus or subtitle Arabic it should still be an ethnically appropriate actor. Ubisoft have mixed history on this: Connor was voiced by a Native American actor and even Edward Kenway the Welsh-born pirate was voiced by Matt Ryan, a welsh-born actor. But the posh English dub of Unity was a mis-step (especially given the Napoleonic background of the title) and in the original AC rather than use a Middle Eastern actor he kept the voice of Desmond throughout the whole game. This was rectified in the flashback sections of Revelations and PSP title Bloodlines.
The original game came out when the war on terror was still fresh in memory and Ubisoft were worried about how to market a game which is essentially about a Muslim-themed Assassin (even if Altair isn’t strictly Muslim) going around murdering Christian-themed Knights. Remember this game started out as a Prince of Persia spin-off. Historically correct but difficult to market in an American market. They managed to sidestep any religious parallels with the whole Assassins vs Templars Apples of Eden secret war but the star of the game was still a Middle Eastern man when Bush was still in power. This the Animus framing device: you’re not really a Middle Eastern man but the ancestor of a white American: problem solved.
Future instalments were a lot more faithful to their historical backdrops or made them a lot more palatable in America by making us British the villains in most of them 😂
@RadioHedgeFund isn't ezios voice just the voice actor for Desmond doing an Italian accent lol
If any franchise needs a "return to basics", it's Assassin's Creed.
@Would_you_kindly It was actually Roger Craig Smith who voices Sonic in all his games. Most definitely not Italian though!
@Kaloudz
The closest you can get is Assassin's Creed: Tsushima on PS4/5.
@Kaloudz
I guess it depends. I'm not a fan of the modern Assassin's Creed games so I might be biased, but it just felt exactly like a modern AC game to me. An open world, full of stuff to do that keeps sidetracking you from the main mission constantly. Much of that is fetch quests or chasing foxes. The climbing is similarly done to Horizon, which means you can only climb what the devs want you to climb. The combat is fun, but enemy AI is dumb and they don't react when you're stealth-killing their friends right next to them. The graphics are great, but you can tell that from the screenshots. I played about 15 hours of it before I got bored and deleted it. Luckily, I played it via PS Plus Extra so didn't lose money. If you're into the modern AC formula you might like it.
Def don't mind stripped back RPG elements - But no dialogue choices? I'm out
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