Ubisoft reveals when the Assassin’s Creed game will be announced

It seems like Ubisoft has learnt from its past mistakes and isn't going to be rushing to announce the next Assassin's Creed game.

[UltraNova]

1 years's break, thats it? This franchise should have been placed in a freezer for at least 5 years and then make a proper AC2 level come back on next gen.

[Summons75]

I mean it's more of a break than COD ever gets so we can at least be grateful Ubisoft actually cares about their franchises, kind of.

[neutralgamer1992]

summon

please get your facts right unlike ubi activision understood that games needed more development time so every cod this gen has been on a 3 years development cycle

http://www.polygon.com/2014...

all ubi does is put 5 different studios to make one ac and all 5 are doing a different side of development and that's why ac feels like there are 5 different chef's in one kitchen

i am neither cod/ac fan

[DragonKnight]

@neutral: "every cod this gen has been on a 3 years development cycle"

And that's the same with Assassin's Creed. Ubisoft employs A LOT of devs and splits them into big teams. So when one game is finished, that team isn't working on the sequel, it's working on the game coming out AFTER the sequel. Just because the games release annually doesn't mean they are only developed annually.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@neu- for someone telling someone else to get their um "facts right" you don't even know that AC series actually gets around 3 years development.

AC Unity was in development since 2010 sooooooo yea. Maybe you should look that up before throwing shade. I seriously would assume if you knew that about COD, you should have at least looked that up with AC. Ubisoft as had this sort of set up since the days of Prince Of Persia and Splinter Cell, in fact...I'd argue they are the MASTERS of that rotation.

Look up what they did during PS2 era, look up the teams that made those games and you'll realize Ubisoft did that BEFORE Acitivision bud.

[neutralgamer1992]

ultra

i was hoping for atleast 2 years break and in between put a proper structure in place so there are 2 or 3 different development studios on a 2-3 years cycle

and i really hope this time it's just a trilogy which has a more focused story because ac series over time became really confusing

[UltraNova]

Yeah but i really feel I have exhuasted all my appetide, so to speak, with this franchise. They should really focus on story maybe a tight, cohesive trilogy might be the remedy I m not sure...what I m sure is that a year's break will not be enough to win me back. Hell I doubt I will even watch the trailers.

Well thats just me maybe you'd like more AC games?

Edit @dragon

Fair enough. Btw i did not play Unity nor Syndicate.

For the record, do you like yearly AC games?

[DragonKnight]

The amount of time a game "takes a break" will not make it any better a game. Bad ideas have no time limit. New people need to be brought in. And if YOU'RE burned out, who's making you play every game?

**EDIT** @ Above: I don't mind them, but they have taken a huge quality hit.

[Shubhendu_Singh]

"Ubisoft seems to have taken on this feedback, as in a recent statement, they announced that they would not be sticking to the one game a year schedule that they had previously set,"

Awesome. Like how competent Ubi-studios has become in making AC games ever year...I think a break of an year is ample amount of time to get things just a bit right and have more variety and less copy-paste collectibles EVERYWHERE.

Haven't played Syndicate or Unity but really looking forward to AC:Empire.
E3-2017 it is.

[Jon_Targaryen]

Unity might be meh.. But Syndicate is brilliant to be honest.

[starchild]

Yeah, I thought Syndicate was really good.

[CaptainFaisal]

it doesnt really need a huge break 1 year or 2 is enough. Ubisoft have some of the biggest devs in the market. Over 600 people work on a single game! If they had 200 or 100 people then it would make sense to take a huge break. But with the huge team , possibilities are endless! More ideas, more polish, more everything.

[Artemidorus]

Well said.

[zodiac909]

They can't even leave the franchise alone for at least 2 years, before milking this cash cow?

[Kalebninja]

You realize how stupid this sounds right?

Oh man oh boy they can't even wait an extra year before putting out a product they know will sell millions, what on earth is wrong with them? Why would they Want to make money?

[sho0ok]

Lol that's funny... People just love to hate, and mostly imitate.

[zodiac909]

Quantity > quality, is my point. Does everything have to be spelled out for you tools in an "ABC" fashion thesedays on this site?

[eldingo]

so your saying ubisofts quantity over quality approach is better as a whole for profits,consumers and the games they make if thats true then that's a stance i take umbridge with,quantity never equals quality yeah they can make money by churning out as many of them as possible but short term profit isnt always a good thing i mean ass creeds become its own version of cod with how many yearly releases its gotten over the years,hardly anything gets a noticable increase in quality gameplay wise.

when your motto for games is lets make as many as possible because they will buy it anyway thats an atrocius reasoning to have for countlessly continuing a game series along with having microtransactions in them via helix credits you might have alot of potential profit in such a thing because most people just don't care but it does make the lack of quality improvement in the gameplay department that much more apparent which as a whole is something im against.

zodiac put it best quantity does not equal quality.

@starchild I'm fully aware the quantity vs quality argument can go both ways.

assassins creed games have been of a very similar quality in the gameplay department for a very long time never of a bad quality or anything below a 5/10 (cept for unity before it got patches that brought it up to 5) however they have also never really improved upon the base formula too much or done anything really different and the more sequels they pump out with very little variation the more easily it becomes readily apparent to anyone paying attention hence how it becomes just another same ole assassin creed game which brings them down from good quality to medicore the more something is repeated the more it becomes a chore to play at least for me it does.

and before you say black flag was really different it is and i know it was however I honestly felt like the devs wanted to make a pirate game not an assassins creed game I enjoy assassins creed as well quite alot ive played most of the games aside from those 2.5 sidescrollers ones when i see it endlessly getting sequels and playing some of them i always get the feeling the game was made more to make money than actually build upon what came before they feel like different side stories instead of a main line entry like the 2,brotherhood,revelations and 3

my main gripe with the series so far has been why should i care as much as before when the gameplay barely changes and i have no real protag to root for people like to bash on desmond for being fucking boring (and he is)however he at least got an actual characer arc along with ezio that had a great feeling of finality something thats been lacking for me from all the protags from all the games after that i mean black flag felt awesome to play but it obviously wanted to be a pirate game and the protag for that was a silent mute asshole and never understood jack diddly about him so why care?

i havent played syndicate since im waiting for a decent price drop maybe that fixed some of my gripes i dunno for now though its a series that had real potential to grow into something great but ended up getting endless sequels in its own form of cod and like cod they are most 6/7 games but they are also blatantly made to make money with very little variation in the gameplay department which is something that severly dissapoints me IF you like this kind of thing more power to you man im not trying to bash the fans of the games just the people who keep deciding to endlessly pump out sequels for them.

[starchild]

But quantity doesn't equal poor quality. Ubisoft have enough studios to produce quite a few high quality games each year.

You don't like Assassin's Creed? Fine. Don't buy it. But that doesn't mean it's not a good game series. Millions of people part with their hard earned cash because they like these games. I really enjoy the series personally.

[Elda]

Old news,Ubisoft stated late last year that there next installment of AC wouldn't be till 2017.

[rezzah]

The destroyed the series so I will no longer play it.

[starchild]

I liked Unity and Syndicate better than the previous games. The stealth mechanics and customization were far superior and resulted in better games for my tastes.

[eldingo]

I am currently waiting for a significant price drop for syndicate did they improve the fighting camera and frame rate along with the speed of combat for syndicate because even after all those patches they were my main gripe with unity.

I also modified my comment above to better explain my stance on my feelings with assassins creed as a whole if you care to look.

[AlphaCentyros]

Such a BS article, there is nothing in the article about Ubisoft revealing when the next AC will be announced.

[Gecksta]

Just like when u google rdr2 news and get the same rubbish from the Christian times. Last I checked they were talking about it been a possible vr title.

[gepugg]

Misleading article title, makes it seem as if there is some actual news here.

[Jon_Targaryen]

After the whole Desmond arch completed. I just started playing for the historic figures and timelines. Id be lying if I said I knew what the game was really about with the whole modern Templar thing and all.

[Captain_Mushroom]

who writes these piece of shit articles? there's nothing about a new AC game being released any time. stop fishing for views, you nobody.

[xPaYDaYx]

The hell is this? The article claims that their most recent installment was broken. I played Syndicate just fine and was pleasantly surprised at how polished that game was.

[Relientk77]

Who writes these terrible articles? Did the writers do any research at all? Unity had all the glitches and bugs. Syndicate was great.

[starchild]

Yeah, Unity was the glitchiest game in the series, but the game was still great in my opinion. Especially once most of the bugs were patched out.

[terrorofdeath]

Making a movie-game tie in?

[coreyweb]

They definitely were on the verge of killing it by milking it to death. I always find AC amazing with their fighting animations and parkour.

I think they could do something really incredible if they really pushed for a CO-OP mode or game. They could do some really cool stuff with that. But they really need to take a break until they can come up with something more to do with the game.

[XXanderXX]

If not rushing to announce a new AC game , how about porting AC Rogue to Xbox one or allow it to be made BC for the system instead

[MilkMan]

I would just like to know what time period or better said what historical event the new Creed will take place in.

[XXanderXX]

Would love a modern day one where the player needs to stick with old ways but is allowed to modify based on the situation .

[SpinalRemains138]

I was the biggest AC fan around, and even I got burned out with the annual garbage. The pirate one was the last one for me. Maybe I should go back and play the new ones.

[Tzuno]

At the same time they will reveal HD remasters :)

[jjb1981]

So this is a reveal of a reveal of a reveal?

[Jeff4433]

While I own and enjoy all the Assassin's Creed games what I really want to know is when the next Splinter Cell is coming out

[Nathan_Hale53]

Reveals for an announcment..?

[fatneal]

the gaming industry is so wack now devs are doing announcements of announcements