Assassins Creed Rumored for Egyptian Setting and Slowdown in Yearly Release
That possibility is looking likely, thanks to some recent leaked information from Kotaku:
The next Assassin’s Creed, which we believe is set in ancient Egypt and code-named Empire, won’t launch until 2017, according to both a new online rumor and sources speaking to Kotaku. One person familiar with Ubisoft’s upcoming gaming plans told me this afternoon that the decision to delay Empire from fall 2016 was made after 2014’s disappointing Unity, and that this bump will allow the development team more room to improve and polish the game. The source said this biennial approach could be a new trend for Assassin’s Creed, which has suffered from franchise fatigue in recent years.
Rumors about Empire originated this morning on the 4chan boards, of all places, where an anonymous poster claiming to be a developer at Ubisoft wrote that Assassin’s Creed would be skipping this year and that 2017’s big game would be set in Egypt. Although I haven’t been able to confirm the veracity of this 4chan poster—whose posts are compiled on NeoGAF here—everything he wrote matches up with what I’ve heard independently for months.
The article goes on to suggest this years big Ubisoft title could be replaced with Watch Dogs 2 over the annual Assassins creed, allowing the hunger for the franchise to build up a bit and revitalize some interest while innovating in gameplay and improving the games overall potential.
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What are your thoughts on this new information? Are you happy we may go a year without an Assassins creed game? Could we see similar action from say, Call of Duty?