

If it feels a little early for Ubisoft to be discussing both these projects when they are clearly still years away, it is worth remembering last year's leak which exposed both these games as part of a nebulous new entry point into Assassin's Creed named Infinity. "I can't wait for our fans to tear apart that trailer and find out all its secrets," Coté suggested. A report earlier this week pegged it as 16th century Europe.
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Please use a PC/Mac (desktop/laptop/notebook) computer to play these games. NEW: Upload your own custom skin for many other players to see Online Multiplayer (more than 32 players per game) Offline Single-player as well Also, new. As for a historical setting, could we see something around the Thirty Years' War perhaps? This conflict involved Protestant and Catholic forces fighting - a favourite of Assassin's Creed - and could involve settings such as Transylvania. The site owner hides the web page description. So, what's this all about? Well, "hexe" is German for witch - and there are certainly stories set around the country's Black Forest which touch on that. "It is a very different type of Assassin's Creed game," Coté noted, before a brief animated tease showed the franchise's logo made up of Blair Witch-esque sticks and twigs, hanging in a forest, and then surrounded by mysterious runes. In their other hand, the figure also wields the series' iconic hidden blade weapon.Ĭodename Hexe, meanwhile, was teased even more briefly, though was again described as a "flagship" title for the series, with work being led by Splinter Cell and Watch Dogs Legion's Clint Hocking. Its creative director will be Jonathan Dumont, who held a similar role on Odyssey.Ī teaser for Project Red shows typical feudal Japan buildings, and an enormous bright sunset, before a hooded figure leaps up and onto a rooftop holding a curved dagger. These are the projects whose early existence was spilled online last year, as the first two major games to be accessed via Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed portal, Infinity.īut Ubisoft was again clear today, in its Assassin's Creed presentation, that these are full-blown Assassin's Creed projects - not simply parts of a live service.Ĭodename Red was described as the "next premium flagship title and the future of our open-world RPG games on Assassin's Creed" by Ubisoft Quebec boss Marc-Alexis Coté. Watch on YouTube Eurogamer Breaking Newscast: Sony reluctantly raises PS5 price, but knows it can get away with it.
