Slightly after Assassin’s Creed 2 dropped a rumor surfaced that the developers wanted to continue to the story of Assassin’s Creed 3 with Ezio returning as the main character. As most of you know this is very different from what happened between the first Assassin’s Creed and the sequel. With Assassin’s Creed 2 we got a new time period, protagonist, and location. Now it seems more and more likely that the third installment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise will be set in the same time period with Ezio returning as the main character. This was slightly confirmed today during a third quarter financial conference call with Ubisoft who explained that gamers should expect to see Ezio again, only this time in Rome.
While I would love to play in Rome, I am slightly disappointed by this announcement. Reason being that the Assassin’s Creed team is so great at creating interesting open world environments and characters that I wanted to see what they had planned next. Rome is a great city, and there are plenty parts of Europe that Ezio can explore during this time period, but a fresh story is something that I think Assassin’s Creed fans appreciate. There are plenty of interesting time periods to consider like The French Revolution, The 30 Year War, World War II, The American Revolution, etc. The possibilities are endless for this franchise, so I hope that they do reconsider this. I love Ezio and Assassin’s Creed 2 is one of my favorite games this generation, but I’m willing to say goodbye to him to see what Ubisoft Montreal can conjure up in terms of a new story. Hopefully, they aren’t just doing this to cut down development costs and speed up production to pump out a sequel.
Rumor: Good chance we’ll see multiplayer in Assassin’s Creed 3. Co-op or competitive? We don’t know, but it is something that Ubisoft is looking at.
I don’t know why people still say its Assassins Creed 3. One of the articles the devs said “there will new assassin’s creed game (not really AC3)”. That obv means AC2.5 and people still say AC3 lol. They said AC3 will have a new assassin but anyways can’t wait for this.
If you don’t believe me then here…
“It’s possible that Ubisoft’s use of the phrase “a new episode” as opposed to “Assassin’s Creed III” could mean the game will be an expansion to AC2″
Read The Article- http://www.gamingtarget.com/article.php?artid=10774
This is just like GTA 4 and the Episodes of Liberty City, that’s a good example.
UBI already stated at E3 that ezio would be in the 3rd game.
All hail ErlFly, if that’s true then my bad I was just taking the words from that article it didn’t seem that its AC3 but if it is then cool I apologize
I dont know where Erl_Fly is getting his info from lol? They werent talking about AC3 at E3. The only mention of future AC’s that I heard was when Patrice (games director) told us that he has enough ideas for stories that he could make AC 6-7-8 etc. Last E3, was the first time anyone saw AC2 in action, they were focusing on that game.
To Killa…
Maybe you are onto something. Maybe the next AC wont be AC3, but it will still be the next major installment of the series. Maybe it will have a title like Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines did or idk. Anyway they are probably doing this to milk the franchise now that they got it right with Ac2. Probably have a small team working on this so they can get some AC goodness out in 2010. Then in 2011 they release AC3. I think this will be bigger than Libery City because of the fact they are adding multiplayer for the first time ever in the franchise.
Yeah online is the major feature in the “next installment” which will highly get more sales. Replay value= Buy.
Yeah i can’t see AC3 featuring Ezio as the main character, just because for two games the time periods were so different and the main focus is based off of a lineage of assassins, not just one. I can see what Killa and Matt suggested in which this is more on the lines of bloodlines and not a full fledged third installment in the main series. I would love to see this as more of an expansion in the current installment where it’s possible to kick more ass with Ezio. I think they looked at Uncharted 2 and took pointers on how to use certain mechanics and bend them to perfectly fit their ideas for multiplayer. If done right it could be awesome.
all i will say is time will make my statement tru! If you went and talked to the ubi guys they said that they wanted to keep ezio for the next game…
Is this the same ErlFly that said Mass Effect was coming on the PS3 and even had video of it but never posted it? Yah…
that might be true i did post something that i thought i seen yeah i was wrong i wont deny it and yes i felt like a DLB when i go back and think about it and the dumb shit i thought i was trying to do but stupidity gets around to the best of us.
but this is true and i will stand on it!
oooh tor i still have seen no body post on the Bioshock 3 game being released the same day as the movie Spring next year…
Cuz it’s not gonna happen.
Who knows… I mean Altiar was in AC2. And I think, well I hope, that AC3 will have you playing as Desmond and an ancestor. Switching back and forth throughout the game… maybe even jump through different time periods…