When asked whether or not the Assassin's Creed series would be getting a third installment, Assassin's Creed 2 producer Sébastien Puel thinks the answer almost goes without saying. "I'm often asked if we're doing a third game after ACII... I mean, we could do 35 of these," he (hopefully) exaggerates to Xbox World 360 in the mag's latest issue (via CVG). When the game's creative director told us the second game would be ending with a cliffhanger, we didn't know he meant we'd have to play 35 games to resolve it -- that's approximately 35,000 assassinated fools, by our estimations.
Explaining his hyperbole further, Puel admits that a female assassin isn't out of the question, even confirming "We've had discussions on that very topic." Still, the Ubisoft producer doesn't want to switch the protagonist's gender without a good reason. "World War II, the economies in England and France were run by women because the men were off fighting ... we don't want to just decide we want to change and have a female hero, as the first inspiration is always the time period." To read the full interview in its original context, pick up the latest issue of Xbox World 360 (if you're in the UK, that is).
Reader Comments (42)
Posted: Oct 13th 2009 9:28PM Birth Canal said
No past ancestors not past incarnations. So basically Desmond is controlling past ancestors in dormant memories in his DNA to solve the mystery of the Assassins-Templars war.
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Posted: Oct 14th 2009 7:21AM Benjamin Gilbert said
Hyams response was more or less exactly what I would say.
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Posted: Oct 13th 2009 9:11PM KungFuChaosNinja said
I'm not against more WWII if it's done in an interesting way. The Saboteur shows that you can bring something fresh to a worn out genre. I think, if done right, Assassin's Creed III could do well in the setting, as it's not the typical WWII title, which is an FPS.
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Posted: Oct 14th 2009 12:37AM MacabreArts said
I'm in favor of a WWII, but let's have a female protagonist who walks around in her undies half the time and uses "eagle vision" to slow down time and become invincible.
Oh yeah- and let's make it terrible too.
Let's call it "Silk Assassin", no too corny, "Cotton Assassin?" nah, OH- I've got it! "Denim Assassin"
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Oh yeah- and let's make it terrible too.
Let's call it "Silk Assassin", no too corny, "Cotton Assassin?" nah, OH- I've got it! "Denim Assassin"
Posted: Oct 13th 2009 9:12PM willooi said
Maybe eventually we'll see an Assassins Creed: Corporate Warfare, where you are sent by, let's say, Google or Microsoft to sabotage enemy products and ideas. Come on now, parkour-ing up skyscrapers and assassinating corporate executives Sam Fisher-style would be awesome!! Oh.
Then the whole DNA virtual reality thing might actually make some sense.
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Then the whole DNA virtual reality thing might actually make some sense.
Posted: Oct 13th 2009 9:21PM Special Agent Steve said
"We've had discussions on that very topic." Still, the Ubisoft producer doesn't want to switch the protagonist's gender without a good reason. "World War II, the economies in England and France were run by women because the men were off fighting ... we don't want to just decide we want to change and have a female hero, as the first inspiration is always the time period."
Sounds like Velvet Assassin done right.
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Sounds like Velvet Assassin done right.
Posted: Oct 13th 2009 9:25PM (Unverified) said
That would be a nice twist on WWII games, being an assassin instead of running and gunning.
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Posted: Oct 14th 2009 12:39AM MacabreArts said
I remember one (I just try not to)- Darkest of Days anyone? it's at least one mission.
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Posted: Oct 14th 2009 11:38AM Uphillbothways said
The Darkness? Kinda sorta during the second half of the game. If WWI was inhabited by demons 'n' shit.
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Posted: Oct 13th 2009 10:00PM coalman987 said
There is a lot of time to cover between AC2 and WWII, they should go for something in like the 1700s, or the 1800s, but I just can't think of what happened in those centuries????
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Posted: Oct 13th 2009 10:33PM Gibbeynator said
I would love it if the next game featured a mobster hitman in Depression-era New York.
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Posted: Oct 13th 2009 10:46PM Dr Perry Ulysses Cox said
Why isn't Ezio saying, "It's the network!"?
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Posted: Oct 13th 2009 10:52PM Pennegan said
As long as it doesnt get exploited with some sort of multiplayer, Im fine if they keep making it.
they need to do with the title what they did with splinter cell, get rid of the numbering and give it a sub-title (splinter cell: pandora tomorrow, splinter cell: chaos theory, splinter cell: conviction) I think that helps to make it feel a little fresher, BUT eventually, some franchises need to accept death :-\
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they need to do with the title what they did with splinter cell, get rid of the numbering and give it a sub-title (splinter cell: pandora tomorrow, splinter cell: chaos theory, splinter cell: conviction) I think that helps to make it feel a little fresher, BUT eventually, some franchises need to accept death :-\
Posted: Oct 13th 2009 11:00PM (Unverified) said
When you are a terminator that drives a time travelling delorian and are sent to the past to fight criminals I'll buy this, until then I don't think I'll ever play this franchise again.
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Posted: Oct 14th 2009 1:29AM Gaming Expert said
I'm all for more Assassin's Creed games but not if they are based in WWII, I wont play them then.
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Posted: Oct 14th 2009 6:00AM (Unverified) said
I thought they said from the start it would be a Trilogy...
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Posted: Oct 14th 2009 5:22PM (Unverified) said
if they do a modern day assassin's creed, they can throw in some parkour.. not nearly enough of that in games yet,.
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Posted: Oct 15th 2009 1:16PM (Unverified) said
Hey I just noticed something funny about the picture... are those pro-lifers at the March for Life? That's odd...
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