NEWS
by Ewan Wilson
Next year's Assassin's Creed leaked
It was going to happen. The setting of next year’s Assassin’s Creed, called or codenamed “Victory” according to Kotaku, has been leaked: Victorian London. As a Londoner I’m intrigued to see what Ubisoft’s talented art and design team come up with – lots of dark, cobbled alleyways no doubt – although I’m a little worried about the publisher’s rapid development cycle. Having one big Assassin’s game a year could be detrimental to the quality of the series. The Paris-based Unity, which shipped this year, released with a host of bugs, technical troubles, as well as being unnecessarily demanding specification-wise.
Additional details/speculation regarding Victory is that it will be the first Assassin’s game developed by Ubisoft Quebec. Kotaku has also been privy to a seven minute “target gameplay” video running on Unity’s “Anvil” engine. You can read up on more of the gritty details regarding the demonstration video, which includes a grappling hook and fighting atop a moving horse carriage, here.