Assassin's Creed Brotherhood producer envisions more multiplayer for franchise
by Andrew Yoon 
on Jul 19th 2010 5:40PM
While some still
lament the addition of multiplayer to the
Assassin's Creed franchise, it seems likely that the online features of
Brotherhood will be revisited in future iterations of the series. Speaking to
Videogamer, associate producer Jean-Francois Boivin addressed why fans are so opinionated on the subject. "I think there's this dichotomy in the gaming world, that ... people who are sold to single-player don't necessarily care about multiplayer," he explained. "The wink we give to that in our universe is that the single-player [game] is Assassins, and the multiplayer is The Templars. I think in the end we're giving a lot to the single-player, because we're giving a full single-player campaign - so they won't feel cheated with
Brotherhood."
Boivin hopes that the addition of a competitive angle to the
Assassin's Creed universe will open up the series to a new audience, beyond fans of the single player experience. "Hardcore multiplayers might say 'I'm going to try this multiplayer. Hey, this universe is kind of cool! I might look into the single-player,'" he mused.
But will we see multiplayer in
Assassin's Creed 3 (or whatever the next title might be)? While not a confirmation, Boivin admitted that "there's a lot of room for expansion in that universe," and envisions "a multiplayer component being there for a long time." Presumably, that would mean about
two years from now.
