Assassin's Creed Chronicles to Become a Globetrotting, Timehopping Series

Assassin's Creed Chronicles to Become a Globetrotting, Timehopping Series

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Lee Bradley

Want even more Assassin’s Creed games? I hope so ‘cos you’re gonna get ‘em. Ubisoft intends on turning Assassin’s Creed Chronicles into a series.

The first of these games is the recently announced Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China, a 2D side-scroller featuring a Chinese assassin and an appropriately inky art style, but other games in the series will go to new countries and sport their own distinctive looks.

"We really liked the side-scrolling idea, like Mark of the Ninja, and we thought it would be a really great way to explore some of the other universes we've created," Assassin's Creed Unity creative director Alex Amancio told Eurogamer.

"One thing that's really cool is that every one of the chapters of this game will be in the art style representative of that era in time. This is why Shao Jun's game is like Chinese ink - very black and red. Once we have other characters and timeframes the art style will completely change to match that specific character."

A future Assassin’s Creed Chronicles game could be set in Ancient Egypt with visuals styled around a papyrus scroll, the report notes.

How these games will release is currently unknown. Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China is a standalone digital game (available as part of Assassin’s Creed: Unity’s season pass), but Amancio was unforthcoming about how future instalments will be delivered.

"I don't want to spoil the surprise, but the idea is that we have this rich universe - we're going to use it,” he added.

You can watch the announcement of Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China below (footage kicks in around the 2 minute mark).

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  • People won't buy it just because it has Assassins creed on the cover. It's not Halo. If they want to sell more games they need to go back to the roots of what made assassins creed so great. Not try and just make more and more games which have no relation with the other assassins creed games.
  • Still very disappointed they didn't make a full blown Assassins Creed game set in China. Just imagine how cool that would be!
  • Well after watching the video I retract my previous statement. I didn't know they were talking about DLC for Unity, and as for the China 2D game that actually looks pretty cool/different. I should've watched the video first before I commented I guess.
  • @1 Tbh, I'd buy it for having Assassin's Creed on the cover. Assassin's Creed is an awesome franchise that gets a lot of bad press for the wrong reasons. It's easy to take a shot at a AAA Franchise, but people forget there's 10-20 Dynasty Warriors games. At least with Assassin's Creed there's a core story all the way through that's different every year, with Dynasty Warriors it's the same story told multiple times with the same gameplay mechanics.
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  • Dynasty Warriors is and never will be a AAA title. That game is a complete joke. Unless all you like to do is mash 1 button about 500,000,000 times. You can't even use that game as a comparison cause that's how bad it is.
  • I love Klei and what they achieved with Mark of the Ninja! To have them say they want to do something like that is awesome! The setting is awesome, the art style looks awesome, plus we have met the character and she kicked butt in AC:Embers... I cannot wait to get my hands on Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China! To hear they have more planned is awesome news to! :)
  • Yay even more yearly released rehashed Assassin's Creed games.
  • @8 they fundamentals have Carried from title to title but they are all different in many ways and they all have new lengthy stories which is the point... They all change in so many ways its literally a sin to call it a rehash...
  • i stand by what i said for ages, victorian england would be perfect for a game in the series.
  • @3 Yourburntstar I'm impressed that you came back and admitted that you posted in haste. Most would not be mature enough to admit they made a mistake. Bravo.
  • My god Ubisoft have you not milked assassins creed to death yet?! Make something new! What next angry birds assassins creed?
  • @12 Make something new? How about child of light, the crew, watch dogs or valiant hearts? Ubisoft makes new IPs and gives existing franchises new life.
  • I like the idea of exploring some different areas and times in smaller games, maybe it'll end up motivating Ubi to really try something different with one of the next main installments. I wouldn't mind seeing either Norse, Russian, Egyptian or Mongolian. There are tons of cool places and eras/events that are ripe for an Assassin Templar treatment.
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