Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says the writer is trying to launch new Murderer’s Creed video games “extra usually” sooner or later, and remakes of older video games will probably be amongst them.
Ubisoft has famously struggled with remakes. The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake (which is not formally dubbed a remake) has been floating in limbo for 4 years and nonetheless does not appear to be anyplace close to completion. The Splinter Cell remake, in the meantime, has seen even much less daylight. It was introduced in 2021 and, nicely, that is it: Hopes that an replace of some type could be made throughout the Ubisoft Ahead showcase earlier this month had been dashed when completely no point out of it was made.
Nonetheless, it looks as if Ubisoft is not giving up on going again to its deep nicely of older video games. “Gamers might be enthusiastic about some remakes, which can enable us to revisit a few of the video games we have created previously and modernize them,” Guillemot mentioned when requested about the way forward for the Murderer’s Creed sequence in a promotional Ubisoft interview. “There are worlds in a few of our older Murderer’s Creed video games which are nonetheless extraordinarily wealthy.”
Guillemot gave no trace as to which Murderer’s Creed video games are up for a remake, however Black Flag appears an apparent selection—it is the large fan favourite. The primary Murderer’s Creed would additionally make sense, and an replace of the Ezio trilogy (Murderer’s Creed 2, Brotherhood, and Revelations) would most likely do nicely too.
No matter which approach it goes, there’s rather a lot to choose from. Murderer’s Creed has been round since 2007, and it is one in all Ubisoft’s flagship titles—a serious, profitable franchise by any measure. However there have been some severe ups and downs over these years. We mentioned approach again in 2014 that Ubisoft’s insistence on annual sequels, and on sticking to a strict method, was doing extra hurt than good, an opinion that Guillemot appeared to take to coronary heart in 2016 when he indicated that annualized releases is perhaps a factor of the previous.
And they also had been: After the middling Murderer’s Creed Syndicate, Ubisoft took two years to ship the a lot stronger Origins, and whereas Odyssey got here out the next yr it supplied the change we might longed for: “Odyssey is much more than simply one other Murderer’s Creed,” we wrote in our 90% assessment. “It’s an RPG of unparalleled scale supplemented by satisfyingly layered and deep development methods that every play their half in bringing historic Greece to life.”
A fair larger hole of three years led into Murderer’s Creed Valhalla, which was sensible, after which one yr later we obtained Mirage, which was good however less than the extent of its current predecessors. So it is not precisely a hard-and-fast rule, however you’ll be able to undoubtedly see a sample: Extra time, usually talking, means a greater sport.
Guillemot mentioned within the interview that Ubisoft’s purpose “is to have Murderer’s Creed video games come out extra usually, however not for it to be the identical expertise yearly.” He cited Murderer’s Creed Hexe, a supernatural-themed sport that we in any other case know nothing about, as one instance that is “going to be a really completely different sport from Murderer’s Creed Shadows.”
Kotaku reported in June 2023 {that a} remake of Murderer’s Creed: Black Flag is already within the works, and whereas that continues to be unconfirmed, Guillemot’s phrases do assist float the hope it is really occurring. First, although, is Murderer’s Creed Shadows: The following mainline sport within the sequence is ready to launch on November 15.
