Ubisoft hasn’t ruled out Assassin’s Creed in Asia
After announcing the release of a side-story game set in China, Ubisoft Montreal does not discount the possibility of a full Assassin’s Creed game set in East Asia.
Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China is a side-scrolling game that will be available for download on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, and it can be purchased alone or as part of the Season Pass for Assassin’s Creed: Unity.
The game will follow the character of Shao Jun, a Chinese assassin who was introduced in the short film Assassin’s Creed: Embers. Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China is set in the year 1526 and covers Shao Jun’s return to China after the events of Embers.
The game features a departure from the franchise’s usual focus of Western European and American history, but while fans are excited about the possibility of a new region for the series, Ubisoft has remained vague on the prospects of a full, non-spinoff game set in Asia.
Too familiar?
Alex Hutchinson, the creative director behind Assassin’s Creed III and Far Cry 4 who berated pirates when they complained about missing features, told IGN in October that an Assassin’s Creed game set somewhere like Japan would be “boring.”
“You could always do it, but the point I was trying to make was that in the broad strokes and scale of history, that’s a theme that’s been well-mined in videogames,” said Hutchinson. “Feudal Japan would work as an Assassin’s game, for sure, but I feel like it would start to look like ‘oh, have I played this?’ You know what I mean – ‘oh, I’ve been a ninja before, I’ve been a samurai before’.”
Stephanie Perotti, Casual & Online Games Director at Ubisoft, spoke a little more on the topic to Chinese press during a PlayStation China announcement on Thursday.
“I don’t think that we said we weren’t interested in Chinese history,” said Perotti. She explained that Ubisoft wants “to have creativity to create the right story.” Perotti noted that they would be more likely to take the story to Asia if Assassin’s Creed creators wanted to spend the time learning about the region and its history to get it right.
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