Excellent news, long-time followers of video games about giving up at the least one in every of your fingers so you may run throughout rooftops and bounce on unsuspecting guards, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says some Murderer’s Creed remakes are coming. Sure, there’s an opportunity one in every of them could be the sport with all of the piratey goodness in it.
Whereas the key focus AC-wise proper now could be on Murderer’s Creed Shadows, which is about to take us all to feudal Japan in November to play as a pair of cool protagonists with completely different playstyles, all of us love replaying issues we have performed earlier than and revelling in how a lot we like them another time. Which, it appears, Ubisoft is keenly conscious of.
In an interview with, er, Ubisoft, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot has confirmed that some AC remakes are coming, although he did not say which video games within the sequence are literally in line for this treament. “Firstly, gamers will be enthusiastic about some remakes,” he revealed in response to a query about the way forward for the sequence, “which can enable us to revisit a number of the video games we have created previously and modernize them; there are worlds in a few of our older Murderer’s Creed video games which can be nonetheless extraordinarily wealthy.”
“Secondly, to reply your query, there will probably be loads of expertise selection,” Guillemot continued, “The objective is to have Murderer’s Creed video games come out extra frequently, however not for it to be the identical expertise yearly. There are a whole lot of good issues to come back, together with Murderer’s Creed Hexe, which we have introduced, which goes to be a really completely different sport from Murderer’s Creed Shadows. We’ll shock individuals, I believe.”
So, there you go. When it comes to which video games could be in line to be remade, the one potential lead we have now is a Kotaku report from final yr, which asserted {that a} workforce at Ubisoft Singapore – the studio behind Cranium and Bones – was engaged on an AC IV: Black Flag remake.
That report acknowledged that this undertaking was “nonetheless in its earliest phases and won’t be full for at the least just a few years”, and, if it seems to be correct, would solely cowl one remake – leaving your goals of every other AC remakes open for now, since Guillemot was speaking about a number of remakes within the interview.
So, there you go. If you wish to be taught a bit extra about Murderer’s Creed Shadows, ensure that to take a look at the 12 minute lengthy gameplay trailer it received at this yr’s large summer season Ubisoft Ahead.