Assassin’s Creed 2’s creative director, Patrice Désilets, at E3 2009 exclaimed “I’m telling you. At the end of AC2 you’ll say‚ ‘Holy crap, I never saw it coming!’ There will be a cliffhanger. It’s cool to have a cliffhanger,” that leads into Assassin’s Creed 3.
The brains behind the Assassin’s Creed series feels that you need to experience a bit of frustration at the game’s completion, with a new way to replay completed missions countering some of that nagging feeling. As well as still having secrets hidden in the game, like the glowing writing on the wall at the end of
Assassin’s Creed 1. About that Patrice says “It has nothing to do with Assassin’s Creed 2,
what’s written on the wall has to do with the Assassin’s Creed universe, not the second one.”
“Assassins Creed has always been planned to be a trilogy, and Desmond is going back in time, using the Animus to eventually become the ultimate assassin.”
If the above didn’t hint at another sequel enough… Later that same week Ubisoft re-confirmed Assassin’s Creed 2 is the second game in an intended Trilogy, “with all parts telling the story of the ultimate assassin.”
When asked if in the game series’ future Desmond’s story will move away from the Animus, a representative said: “It’s always been planned to be a trilogy, and
Desmond is going back [in time, using the Animus] to [eventually] become the ultimate assassin. Can’t tell you any more, though.”
Do you think Desmond will be a good enough assassin to stop the end of the world on December 21, 2012?
Now that we know more about the storyline in the Assassin’s Creed universe, we also get a clearer picture of the endgame in Assassin’s Creed 3. The highly advanced race of “The Ones Who Came Before” spoke through a hologram of Minerva to Desmond, through “The Propheth” Ezio, about their Temples. Several of these Temples were built around the globe to prevent the end of the world in 2012. The only known Temple so far is below the Vatican. In Assassin’s Creed 3 Desmond will have to find the other Temples in time. This to activate them in order to prevent a solar flare from reaching and scorching the Earth, which would kill nearly everyone once again. In a race against time, Desmond will have to re-enter the Animus 2.0 to continue his search for the exact locations of the Temples via his ancestor’s memories.
See what 1 of the Temples looks like at 4:30 into Assassin’s Creed 2’s ending video:
I guess Minerva was too busy looking at the future to give Desmond any sort of indication as to the locations of the Temples? Thanks a lot Minerva!
September 2009 update: Assassin’s Creed 2’s creative director Patrice Desilets is busy finishing the second game’s development, and mentions he’s looking forward to rounding out the trilogy. To quote the
Joystiq &
VG247 interviews: “I have many different ideas. I’m not ready yet to exploit them. I think I have some juice left in me left to continue this. I’ve been doing Assassin’s Creed games for the past six years. It’s tough to be bored. I was a bit bored with the Turk crusade and the monk aspect, and everything, but in this there’s a brand new setting. And it’s my first sequel; I never did a sequel before, because I didn’t do any Prince of Persia sequels. I love the idea of refining your ideas, the gameplay and what you can do with it. So I’m not bored yet.” I wonder what change of scenery we can expect in Assassin’s Creed 3?
November 2009 update: The November issue of Xbox World 360 magazine has an interview with Assassin’s Creed producer Sébastien Puel, where
he talked about Ubisoft’s ideas for Assassin’s Creed 3! To quote:
“We’ve had discussions on that very topic. It could be really interesting but we’d need to find the right time period and place for that. Where would that make sense? We don’t want to just decide we want to change and have a female hero as the first inspiration is always the time period, but if you’re talking about, say, World War II the economies in England and France were run by women because the men were off fighting.
So maybe in this context you were a woman in England during WWII. Why not? Nothing prevents us from doing it. I’m often asked if we’re doing a third game after ACII… I mean, we could do 35 of these.”
Sounds like the developers are either thinking out loud or giving us a red herring with all this talk about Europe. I think that
Assassin’s Creed 3 could take place in feudal Japan and off the coast you might find the lost city of Atlantis. — As you’ll recall from playing the game, Subject 16 left behind coded clues written in blood at Abstergo, as well as the 20 glyphs he hid in the Animus for the Assassin’s to find. All glyphs put together unlock a video that shows Adam and Eve were slaves who escaped from being controlled by the First Ones and took the Apple of Eden with them. As they climb the roof of a futuristic building complex a flash of binary code reveals their location as Eden. It could be that the other slaves were building a Temple there. — Coming back to my point about this being in Japan.
The environment Adam and Eve escaped into looks bushy with a large snow-topped mountain in the background. Which can be one of two of the world’s most famous landmarks, Mount Fuji in Japan or Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa! Take a look at the video and see for yourself:
December 2009 update: At the SpikeTV’s Video Game Awards 2009 on December 12th, Ubisoft’s Assassins Creed 2 won the Best Action-Adventure Game Award. When asked at the event where they’d want to set Assassins Creed 3. Jean-Francois Boivin, Production Manager on the second game, said “That’s something we don’t even know yet ourselves. Right now we’re just taking a break after shipping this game. But we’re thinking about where this license can go, and
we’re working on concepts in the next few months.” Sounds like there’s plenty of time for YOU to tell them where you want the third game to take place…
