As we deduced early last month, Assassin's Creed is getting the comic book treatment -- but based on the teaser video found after the break, the time period and setting will be pretty far removed from 15th-century Italy. Set to be fully revealed at next week's San Diego Comic-Con, the three-part mini-series by artists Cameron Stewart (Batman & Robin) and Karl Kerschl (The Flash) coming this fall will apparently take place in Imperial Russia and somehow involve the Tunguska Event of 1908, an explosion that is the source of some supernatural theories.
The series is coming from Ubisoft Montreal's UbiWorkshop, which the publisher describes as being charged with "leveraging Ubisoft intellectual properties in entertainment mediums outside of video games, such as comic books." It's interesting to note that the first piece of Assassin's Creed related comic book artwork to emerge from UbiWorkshop (which has been replaced with this one, depicting a "steampunk samurai" Assassin) actually teased an Egyptian setting -- maybe we're due for mini-series, plural.
If you're going to be attending SDCC, the "Assassin's Creed: Behind and Beyond the Brotherhood" panel (which will also feature Assassin's Creed: Brotherhoodwriter Jefferey Johalem) is on July 22 at 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. PDT, in room 7AB. No Templars allowed.
hellllll yeah. i wouldn't mind playing a full game set in russia during that time period. the egyptian one looks cool, but it probably wouldn't make a good game. that samurai one doesn't look right though.
This is exactly what I wanted: something in the Assassin's Creed Universe based in Imperial/Soviet Russia. In fulfilling a general requirement of mine by taking a class on the very topic, I found that there is some awesome mysticism behind the assassinations that took place both before and during the rise of the communist party. Hell, I had even finished playing AC2 mid-semester, so I couldn't help but draw associations.
As a gamer... and a comic enthusiast I have to say I have never ever seen the appeal of basing things in Russia. I played through Metro 2033...meh. I am playing through Singularity...meh. The lore just does not appeal, but I hope I am proven wrong.
Makes sense. In Assassins Creed 1 one of Vidicks emails described how the Tunguska event was a piece of Eden/Apple that exploded when the templars went to go get it.
A simple voice-over over ancient footage seemed a little cheap. However, I'm interested as all hell. Of all places, I didn't think they'd go to the Russia, let alone to the early 1900's! I'm still baffled as to what an assassin would do there...
Rather than using money earned to bolster a villa, you'll fix up Rome itself, which will change Ezio's social standing, unlock missions and curry favor with various factions. The release promises collaboration with Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Caterina Sforza, and describes new "secret weapons." Ubi is throwing in poison darts, parachutes, hidden blades and guns, not to mention an "advanced flying machine" -- which is presumably useful in more than a single mission this time.
Multiplayer -- developed by Ubisoft Annecy, who created the online component of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory -- is said to feature "multiple authentic character classes" (presumably the characters seen in the gallery below) each of whom will use "signature weapons and killing moves."
