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New Assassin's Creed Game's Screenshot And Name Reportedly Leaked

After a year off, here's what's next for Assassin's Creed.

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New details have emerged regarding the next entry in the Assassin's Creed series, which will reportedly be called Assassin's Creed: Origins.

That name was first reported by WWG and has since been corroborated by Eurogamer. The latter's sources also indicate the game is a prequel that will launch for PS4, Xbox One, and PC later this year.

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The alleged leaked Assassin's Creed: Origins image
The alleged leaked Assassin's Creed: Origins image

Separately, an off-screen image purporting to be a "first look" at Origins has been published on Reddit. Eurogamer's sources also indicate that the image is legitimate. It pictures a bow-wielding character on a boat, albeit one much smaller than what players controlled in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

Early last year, Kotaku reported the the new game would take place in Egypt and was set for a fall 2017 under the name Assassin's Creed Empire (a name that has seemingly since been changed).

Not long after, Ubisoft confirmed it would not release a mainline Assassin's Creed game in 2016. It said this would allow it to leverage new technology and "give the brand a new dimension."

"Since the release of Assassin's Creed Unity, we've learned a lot based on your feedback," it stated at the time. "We've also updated our development processes and recommitted to making Assassin's Creed a premier open-world franchise. We're taking this year to evolve the game mechanics and to make sure we’re delivering on the promise of Assassin's Creed offering unique and memorable gameplay experiences that make history everyone's playground."

Unity was maligned for its bugs and technical issues when it launched in 2014. The subsequent game, Syndicate, underperformed at retail.

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The only thing that will make come back to this series is Assasins Creed Japan made in collabration with Platinum games.

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Ass Creed 2 all time fav

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for me Blag flag is my favorite of the series..

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I think the free running and combat is loads better in the newer games a lot more fluid which is great (But could still be improved upon) - think they now really need to focus on a great story and have a little bit more going on in the world ... just being able to climb up things can get a little old !

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I'm playing the Ezio collection on x1.

It's great fun and full of nostalgia. AC 2 is still the best AC game even though it does feel dated. I think it's because it was a massive improvement over the First one

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Did I ever tell you the definition of a

"Controlled Leak"?

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What do you expect? It's an industry.

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With Mass Effect going down the drain, I need this. Please please please be good.

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Exactly what we need, another installment of an already dull and played out series. Good job Ubisoft.

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@opus153: My thoughts exactly. It was super refreshing to not hear about A** Creed for a period of... what, a year or something? Sigh. If they just made the parkour and combat skill-based instead of mindless button-pressing, these games might (might) actually be interesting. As is... they're like city simulations that you can tour. Pretty cool in its own right, but not that cool lol. Haven't played an Assassin's Creed Game since number 3.

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@VANGUARD003: Same here. Realized there were a lot better games to spend time with like Ni No Kuni and DMC

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@kidcitrus: Ahh, I've read things about Ni No Kuni, but alas! No PS4 lol -____-

I've been an Xbox gentleman since the beginning (because I'm an absolutely unwavering Halo fanatic), and even I can see that Xbox is absolutely BLOWING IT this generation relative to PS4. I don't know if you know Supergiant Games (Bastion, Transistor), but they went from releasing originally on Xbox for Bastion to not releasing Transistor on Xbox at ALL. Sort of captures the essence of what has happened on a wide scale in terms of "gud-game availability" on Xbox One. I aint much of a triple-AAA guy either (besides Halo), so I'm down the river lol. Least maybe I'll be able to play Egyptian A** Creed hahahaha :P

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Nope. More iteration, not innovation, so nope nope nope nope nope.

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Apparently the game is going to go into the original assassin’s guild and has both a male and female main character. The game was compared to Skyrim and apparently focuses on being as non-linear as possible, with naval combat and the ability to sail the Mediterranean. This would make more since then just being set in Ancient Egypt given the name Assassins Creed Empire. Give me a ship and old world Mediterranean Sea and I will be set!

I am definitely excited for Assassins Creed again.

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@Legend_of_Link: It's still going to end up with climb this, reveal the map, look, lot's of pointless dots on the map, collect them all. O yea, here's a mediocre story about those evil guys blah blah...

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@Legend_of_Link: That makes one of us

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Hmm, it has my attention. That being said, I was a big fan of Black Flag, though I don't like much of the series. Hopefully the added development time will improve the quality of the game.

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If this turns out to be as shallow as all the other Assassin's Creed games - it's a pass. They all first felt like there's a shit ton of stuff to do, but it gets repetitive way too fast.

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@jaydennox: Yeah. The question is, will there be any difficulty at all? Will it be interesting to play?

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That's an original and inspired name.

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@nightfall_zero: YES! Dumbest name they could ever choose.

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I'm sure the game will be ok and look amazing. But considering we all know there is zero point to the story of any game in this series...what could they possibly bring that is new to the table at this point. The series lost all steam once they came out and admitted they have no real story/point. A prequel? Why? Who cares at this point?

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At least they've taken a break, I think they would do well in trying to add something new to the combat to keep the game fresher and hopefully, they looked at the success of Black Flag before making this one they're working on.

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So new AC game is not sequal to other games . AC games story hasn't been good since 3 ended. I will get this one . But if story still not any good they should end it .

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Unfortunately ubisoft has destroyed the franchise trying to force out a new entry every year. I will stear clear of this one for sure

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Graphics in this screenshot is on par with Far Cry 3.

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@Pelezinho777: it's not a screenshot

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@tinkyabad: oh? It's moving?

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As much as I enjoy the "historical" aspects of the franchise, gameplay's never been very good or challenging. Sad to see how the great Prince of Persia series evolved into this.

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I think gamespot needs to lookup definitions of 'leaked' and 'released'.

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I hope it's more of like AC2. The rest of the AC seems garbage.

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Look close. This is actually a new Assassin taking a leak. I guess that counts.

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@SingletreeAve: when you see it

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More ubishit games. Do yourself a favor and quit hyping garbage. They didn't take a year off to develop a better game. They took a year off because some idiot thought it was IP fatigue and not lack luster garbage since black flag. And I would be excited to explore Egypt, but their works building is nothing like tomb raider which would be made to explore tombs and solve puzzles. You climb crap and don't explore anything. It's just skyboxes, garbage combat, and check the box uninspired POI's. But hey, welcome to Egypt with a pyramid skyboxes. These people haven't been relevant since 2002.

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I'm ready for a new AC. Syndicate was one of the best games of 2015 and the best the series has ever been.

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@xshinobi: syndicate wasn`t that great combat felt very arkham like which didnt appeal to me stealth was once agian a joke nothing new in assassins creed they never really nailed the stealth side of things the combat needs to be different this time around there assassins shouldnt take forever to bring down a enemy

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@xshinobi: you're on drugs.

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@Utnayan: Not always a bad thing cuz

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Really pumped for this one!

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Quite simply, not interested if Ubi maintains their current combat gameplay with the health bars and hacking and slashing without its signature chaining combat from Rogue, Black Flag, and the games before. You talk about Unity being maligned because of technical issues? Please, that was when Ubi decided to ditch one of the most important aspects of AC franchise: the chaining combo combat. Sure, Unity, Syndicate had ways to combo, but Ubi shat on combat in my opinion and made it a hack-and-slash vs. health bars.

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Old world history for life. Can't wait to play this game. I have played all the assassin creed games and enjoyed them. I really like the history aspect and I do take the time to read about the people, buildings, and time periods. From the way people dress and the music you hear it is all researched and put into the game which is nice to see. Anyways I think this next installment will be great in Eygpt. I predict it comes out this year and will launch along side Scorpio. Here's how I would rank AC games

1. Assassins Creed Black Flag

2. Assassins Creed 2

3. Assassins Creed

4. Assassins Creed Syndicate

5. Assassins Creed 3

6. Assassins Creed Unity

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@Legend_of_Link: I'd agree with you on the whole, but you forgot Revelations (unless you remembered it, but just hated it). I'd go with...

1. Assassins Creed (original, ground-breaking game)

2. Assassins Creed; Revelations (built solidly on, and possibly even better than, AC1)

3. Assassins Creed 2 (very solid again - but starting to lose its way)

4. Assassins Creed Black Flag (very different and fresh, but too much ship-based stuff)

5. Assassins Creed Unity (after the bugs were fixed, miles better than people rated it imo)

6. Assassins Creed Syndicate (also much better than ratings; think people had had enough AC by now)

7. Assassins Creed; Brotherhood (the weakest of the original AC's by a long way)

...big gap...

8. Assassins Creed 3 (the combat and stealth mechanics were completely broken imo plus a dull story)

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@Legend_of_Link: Black Flag was horrid. I hated that one. The best part about it were the ship battles which got old really fast.

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I'm happy to give Ubisoft another chance. There's just something about AC games.

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@alexander_mark: Lol, I'm not!

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Just let me play as a man and do man things please... no more sjw pandering... this is 2017 not 2016

Side note - cannot get enough of the Creed... cannot wait for whatever they are cooking!

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