Ubisoft CEO says Assassin’s Creed remakes are in the works

Older Murderer’s Creed titles are about to get fashionable reimaginings, principally seemingly with higher graphics and different enhancements for newer consoles and extra highly effective PCs. Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft, has revealed in an interview on the company’s website that Murderer’s Creed remakes are within the works when he was requested what’s subsequent for the franchise. The remakes will permit the corporate to revisit and modernize older worlds it has created, he defined, telling the interviewer that “there are worlds in a few of [its] older Murderer’s Creed video games which can be nonetheless extraordinarily wealthy.”

Guillemot additionally mentioned that Ubisoft’s purpose is to have Murderer’s Creed video games come out extra repeatedly, “however not for it to be the identical expertise yearly.” The upcoming Murderer’s Creed Hexe that is set through the witch trials within the Holy Roman Empire is “going to be a really totally different sport from Murderer’s Creed Shadows,” he mentioned. Shadows is about in Japan on the finish of the Sengoku period and options actual occasions and historic figures from that interval, together with feudal lord Oda Nobunaga. Will probably be available worldwide on November 15.

Whereas Guillemot did not say which titles Ubisoft is remaking, Kotaku beforehand reported that it is engaged on a brand new model of Black Flag. The action-adventure sport, which focuses on 18th century pirates, was launched again in 2013 and was some of the beloved entries within the franchise. Ubisoft can also be anticipated to launch a brand new platform known as “Animus hub” that gamers can use to launch and play video games from the franchise on the identical day Shadows drops. Animus hub, previously often called Infinity, may very well be doubtlessly be a retailer, as nicely, and if that is true, then it is sensible for Ubisoft to work on extra AC releases that it might probably promote by means of the hub.