Assassin’s Creed Shadows will lay the basis for a new modern-day story after years of Ubisoft struggling to match the curiosity in Desmond’s storyline from the authentic Assassin’s Creed video games.
Marc-Alexis Coté, Ubisoft’s vice chairman govt producer of Assassin’s Creed, mentioned at a British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts (BAFTA) occasion attended by Eurogamer that Ubisoft has “struggled to search out its footing” with the modern-day facet of Assassin’s Creed lately.
“Desmond’s journey was at the coronary heart of the modern-day battle driving the seek for highly effective Isu artefacts, Items of Eden, that would change the course of historical past,” Coté mentioned. “Nonetheless, along with his dying at the finish of Assassin’s Creed 3, we confronted a inventive crossroads. Ending Desmond’s arc was a tough determination, and afterward, the fashionable storyline struggled to search out its footing.”
Assassin’s Creed 3 arrived in 2012, nevertheless, so Coté had admitted the franchise has struggled to search out a sturdy modern-day story in additional than a decade. This has actually been a level of frustration for followers over the years, a few of whom have complained the modern-day storyline has no actual route and solely detracts from the principal sport.