Assassin’s Creed: (Almost) Modern Warfare – Series heading in right or wrong direction?

OXCGN:
"When OXCGN did a poll last year asking readers where and when they would like to see Assassin’s Creed 3 go next, over 20% said into the modern times. While I strongly disagree (and we already have Desmond in a near future time period) it does seem that the current mania for modern warfare is also reflected in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. The question is if this is a good gameplay direction or not.

It has been already revealed that Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood will have a form of artillery fired from a small boat that looks a lot like Leonardo Da Vinci‘s sketches of a multi-barrelled machine gun, an actual chariot machine gun, and Leonardo’s parachute sketch will also become a feature of the game.

The latest reveal from Gametrailers, however, takes Da Vinci’s versions of what would eventually become real modern warfare equipment into the incredible: a tank. Yes a tank, and one that fires explosive ordnance, no less, in the middle of Renaissance Rome....

[BadCircuit]

I think that Assassin's Creed should stay the way it is and not change because I find the game good just the way it is, but I do like the multiplayer idea in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

[Nitrowolf2]

well the first time, as most people probably thought also was that AC was just going to take place in past setting, no one though it would be a guy who is actually in a machine that goes back to buried memories of his ancestors.I think everyone thought it was going to be how it is right now (except without the animis) and devon or what ever his name was)

Idk if it goes into a modern setting i would like to see how it plays. Currently i love the knights, sword medievil, reinassance theme. I mean i can't really see me playing an assassin creed game with a fully automatic gun. and just the assassin characters themselves fit for that time. I mean idk if we will see the same type of assassin outfit as it progresses towards the future. It just seems strange to me for an assassin in modern time like this. I mean i see a guy with a gun on the roof tops and everyone is using a gun. At the end of Ac2 where they have you fighting guys with battons or pipes, i don't see that happening and plus that would just be lame.

[MrMccormo]

AC and AC2 are both great games. They're not flawless (storyline is ten sorts of messed up) but they are both fun games. Besides, it's difficult to find a AAA-quality open world game these days that isn't set in some sort of modern gangster or mercenary setting.

[gaminoz]

I don't think there's a change yet, but it does seem like Ubi is trying to incorporate things that gamers these day seem to like (mass destruction and shooting!) instead of focus on the assassination in close stuff.

Not a bad thing if done right and with some restraint.

[XboxOZ360]

I think we have plenty of those games these days, so many so, they are beginning to all look and feel the same.

The thing I like about Assassin's Creed and the like is the fact they are different, and involve different game mechanics that have the user 'think' rather than just hit the right trigger all the time to shoot.

Yes, if it does come forward, as all things must, it need not come that far forward to place it in the 20th century as such.

There is plenty of scope in the 19th and 18th century to expand on the game.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

I don't see the change too, it become clear after AC2 that the game will use hystorical projects, like DaVince's ones, as a reference for gadgets and equipment that diversfy gameplay. Be sure, you won't be riding a tank the whole game, just like you wouldn' glide though the whole AC2, it was just one mission.

Anyone that had been following the franchise knows that AC games will come to point where you'll fight as Desmond in the present (actually, future for us, as the game is set in 2012) with all kinds of modern gadgets and assassin skills.

[gaminoz]

The tank does look really cool in the video, but I do think that there may be too much focus on integrating new modern gameplay stuff to try and keep the interest of gamers used to modern warfare shooters.

When they do AC 3, where will they go? If they go back in time or even in the near future how will they incorporate flight and tanks? Or will they go back to basics? I don't see that happening.

So does that mean we'll be stuck in modern times?

[BadCircuit]

I agree. I like Assassin's Creed for the assassinations with knives, not automatics.

A tank is too close to modern times for an Assassin's Creed game. Anyway Da Vinci's tank never worked and looked more like a flying saucer.

I hope we aren't heading to the Modern times, I liked the ancient times.

[XboxOZ360]

It 'must' stay the way it is, we do not need nor want another 'modern' fighter, come shooter in the mix.

The current theme and era of Assassin's Creed is what makes it unique and inviting. Bring it forward too far, and we have yet another game amongst hundreds that are all basically the same.

Location, is vital for these styles of games . . . . sorry to all those mad multiplayer jarheads out there, but not every game has to be about multiplayer mayhem.

[Godem]

I hvaent watched the video, but it sounds like it could be a 'one off' thing like the flying thing you could do in AC2 (maybe MP will be different)

[gaminoz]

Yeah it sort of looks like a "tank" section like you'd find in the old COD WW2 games, rather than Battlefield games.

I'm not sure how destructible the environment will be though?

[Redempteur]

i hope desmond train well and fins what he is looking for i hope we'll be able to live trhough him , play as him in a animus like fashion i mean ..he can have a child at some point i think ...

[CaulkSlap]

Assassins Creed: Modern Murder.

[T3MPL3TON]

They've done the "we're gonna use you for your ancestors" thing.
It's time we get to see what Desmond can really do, I'm not saying assault rifles and frag grenades is the best way to take the series but give us some more play time with Desmond.. If he's so God forsaken important, show us why. He can't rely on a small team of 4 people. He needs to man up and start fighting.

[XboxOZ360]

I disagree, there is still plenty of room in other time periods without getting too far into the 20th century. The Templars had a huge influence in the 18th and 19th century, and remember, that even the early 20th century was when the west just started to modernise.

That's the period in which Red Dead Redemption is staged in. The turn of the century. I think way too many younger gamers, those in the late X and Y gen, and the newer i-gen, expect way too much explosive action in games. Mush more multiplayer, but the side effect is, less attention span and longivety in the games as a whole.

Look at the new Bioshock Infinite. It will be a far less of a shooter than the previous two iterations, and rely more on a dynamic and evolving choice system, where you action carry through the entire game. No realy health regeneration like before, and no multiplayer.

Now if Levin can build a game without Multiplayer, and see the need for games like that, then so can others. This multiplayer and heavy assault style of gameplay is cyclic, and will fall as ppl get bored with the same-ol-same-ol.

It's where games have come full circle, and older games that require mental thoughts and planning are on the comeback. Ideally Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, and the new Assassin's Creed 3 will allow the game to stay within the bounds of the 'period' style of gameplay, rather than 'modern'.