10 studios are working on Assassin's Creed Unity; that's three more than AC4

How long are the credits going to be?

Thank God.

I was worried they would have too many cooks in thie kitchen on this one.

Glad they came to their senses and went more streamlined in their approach.

can some 1 tell ubisoft i want the old assassins system back where you gather a group and train them ...a bit of action/strategy style ... tell them it is from me and i need it badly ....

Well, they still lost money last year, even with huge titles that sold tens of millions, I hope they know what they're doing with these enormous budgets. Would be too bad to see Ubisoft go under too, just like THQ, which in the early 2000's seemed like an impossibility (to me).

I've always thought that one of the most important aspects of developing a game was having a strong vision for the project and sticking to it. Sure, having lots of ideas to play around with is nice, but if that vision is diluted or misconstrued due to there being too many voices, and I can't possibly see how it wouldn't with 10 studios working on it, then it can easily become disjointed and messy. I'll reserve judgement until I see the finished product, but I am pretty much just expecting another iteration of a well-established machine.

One studio making animus fragments, one making flags, one making feathers, one making chests, one making mayan stones and so on. There is also one guy working on the combat system.

9,200 developers and still no crouch button

This sounds like a really, really bloated development situation.

Ubisoft, can you please assign at least one intern to improving combat and stealth mechanics this time. Any maybe another to coming up with one or two decent missions. The cut-scenes and beautifully rendered worlds are quite impressive, but I also like to play the game.

Why are people hating on this? bunch of gobshites, the game isn't even out yet for God sake >_>

No pirates = don't care.

Awesome. AC4 was a masterpiece simply because of the variety in gameplay and the BIG and magnificent open world.

But it brings the question if 10 studios are working on this one, and a lot of others working on rest of the projects (Watchdogs, Far Cry 4, Just dance etc.) Who's working on AC: Comet?

Criticisms should probably be withheld until after we've seen the game.

great I will be dead before the credits end.

I don't know if this is good or bad news. On the one hand it means the game will be getting more content, and on the other, the more people working on a project, the more difficult it is to coordinate the project and the end result can become a mess of unrelated features.

Ten studios are working at 60fps, 1080p.

The only fun part with ACIV was sailing, exploring and naval combat.
ACIII was a disaster, the first AC was repetitive - the only fun ones were the Ezio trilogy.

Wow, that's a huge amount of people working on just one game. Even though they release the game yearly, most of them are pretty good (aside from AC3). I like how much work and effort they put into the AC series.

I wonder how they'll top AC4.

wonder if it taking place in France has anything to do with it :P

I don't understand why people are complaining about how many are working on the game. None of your damn business literally. You don't know the economics behind it. You should be glad that they invest that much to make sure it gets released on time.

What are you proposing instead of 10 studios? 1 studio that works on it for 6 years?