gaming Assassins' Creed Unity

[Koelath 445]

According to Kotaku, a new AC game is in the works and due to be set in Paris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5eGRnbZ0fo

 

Nothing much is known but I do notice two new parkour buttons on the HUD which is apparently to be part of some new navigation scheme.

 

But more to the point: This is apparently one of two currently-in-progress AC games due out for consoles (note: console in this context = not handheld). Now, people as early as Brotherhood were turning on this series for milking itself. Personally, I consider those people to be idiots (specifically those who turned the instant an un-numbered installment appeared) but I digress.

 

Thoughts on the series? The apparently-upcoming Parisian adventure? Just speaking for myself, I've loved the series since AC2 (AC1 aged like rotten babies) and as much as critics seem to get on its case for "Call of Duty syndrome", I've seen each title bring enough new to the table to avoid fatigue. Brotherhood brought the awesome assassin recruits. Revelations brought those nifty assassin-training missions, bomb crafting, that neat hook gadget and those den sieges (which many hated but I guess I'm a sucker for tower defense). AC3 brought the hunting and wildlife system (entire play sessions spent tracking and hunting bears), fun and addictive mini-games (I spent hours on the ship in the intro playing these), multiple new weapons, improved stealth, the Homestead and its various mechanics, a fun new assassin-recruiting mechanic via liberation contracts, and a button dedicated solely to petting dogs (10/10!)...Plus each game brings entirely new settings that always look great. I haven't gotten my hands on AC4 yet but I've seen enough gameplay to see it brings plenty of its own as well (though the big thing is the ship stuff perfected from AC3, obviously) and the world looks great there too.

 

Now I don't know jack about Paris or the French Revolution (except that there were many decapitations) but I can't wait to see it. Assassins' Creed is hardly a perfect series (there is no such thing - and AC3 for all its fun and many hours of enjoyment was flawed in numerous little ways) but for a series some love to claim is growing stale, it has a funny habit of constantly introducing new and fun things.

 

The only question that remains, at least for me, is whether the Eiffel Tower will be around during whatever era the new Assassin will be running around in this time.