Holy crap! The next Assassin's Creed will be set in Rome! And it's out this year

Speaking in an investor call, following the release of Ubisoft's fiscal third-quarter financial results, company CEO Yves Guillemot made it abundantly clear as to why another Assassin's Creed will unsheathe its stabby things before April 2011. According to Guillemot, Assassin's Creed 2, which launched in November 2009 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, has shipped 8 million copies. The original Assassin's Creed had soldjust as many by June 2009 -- roughly 18 months after its debut.

Although details regarding the new Assassin's Creed -- set to star Ezio and some online friends -- remain slim, Guillemot wasn't mum on milieu: "This time, [Ezio] will strike directly against the templar's order in Rome." Can this Rome be built in a year, just in time for Holiday 2010?JoyStick

I must say I was disappointed that we didn't get to experience the city of Rome in AC2 so I'm really excited about this. I hope to do some chariot races in the Colosseum. :D

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/09/assassins-creed-2-ships-8-million-next-game-returns-to-rome/

Stolen from gaf.

I feel terrible for doing this now, and I probably deserve it, but I just traded in Assassin's Creed II yesterday. The previously announced DLC (The missing memory sequences) wasn't enough!

I feel terrible for doing this now, and I probably deserve it, but I just traded in Assassin's Creed II yesterday. The previously announced DLC (The missing memory sequences) wasn't enough!

Lanezy

It's not DLC. You wont need your copy of AC2.

feels like it comes out too soon, anyone else think so too?

I tecnically have no problem with good games getting sequals, but really? 1 year after AC2?

[QUOTE="Lanezy"]

I feel terrible for doing this now, and I probably deserve it, but I just traded in Assassin's Creed II yesterday. The previously announced DLC (The missing memory sequences) wasn't enough!

S0lidSnake

It's not DLC. You wont need your copy of AC2.

That's both amazing and confusing. I'm guessing it's more of an expasion pack?

Daaamn. Ubisoft is not playing around.

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[QUOTE="Lanezy"]

I feel terrible for doing this now, and I probably deserve it, but I just traded in Assassin's Creed II yesterday. The previously announced DLC (The missing memory sequences) wasn't enough!

Lanezy

It's not DLC. You wont need your copy of AC2.

That's both amazing and confusing. I'm guessing it's more of an expasion pack?

I think it's a full sequel, but yeah it's confusing.

Wow, another Assassin's Creed.

zzzzz

I hope to do some chariot races in the Colosseum. :D

S0lidSnake

In Renaissance Italy? You would be a few centuries too late for chariot races. You might run into Michelangelo perhaps, or Pope Clement. I can picture Ezio visiting the necropolis under St. Peter's bassilica as well.

Can this Rome be built in a year, just in time for Holiday 2010?S0lidSnake

[QUOTE="S0lidSnake"]Can this Rome be built in a year, just in time for Holiday 2010?Black_Knight_00

Well, another way to see it is that they've decided to warm up their binary leftovers and make some more money with it selling it as a new creation.

I still haven't had the chance to play ACII, but another installment before the year's end sounds too soon to me. Personally, I'm not a big fan of yearly sequels, but hopefully this might mean a price drop so I can enjoy ACII while everybody's playing ACIII.

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"][QUOTE="S0lidSnake"]Can this Rome be built in a year, just in time for Holiday 2010?wide_ocean

Well, another way to see it is that they've decided to warm up their binary leftovers and make some more money with it selling it as a new creation.

Considering how good ACII was, I'll gladly take their "leftovers" versus yet another uninspired shooter, racer, or action game.

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[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"] I think UBI already had Rome ready for AC2, but chose to limit the experience in order to release a sequel in a shorter time. It's fine with me, since AC2 already has loads of content as it is. I hope they include Milano and Bologna as well: many, many spectacular landmarks to climb in those cities.Grammaton-Cleric

Well, another way to see it is that they've decided to warm up their binary leftovers and make some more money with it selling it as a new creation.

Considering how good ACII was, I'll gladly take their "leftovers" versus yet another uninspired shooter, racer, or action game.

Sure, if it suits tastes, why not. I'll wait for that insipred shooter, hoping AvP will be that

rome could be interesting... ac2 is different from ac1 like nfs carbon is different from nfs most wantedermhm

I'd prefer they get to work on AC3. Ezio's story has been told. There's no need to keep dragging it out.Canvas_Of_Flesh

Oh I'm sure they'll be working on AC3 soon enough if they aren't already. This new content likely wwon't need the whole team to work on.

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[QUOTE="wide_ocean"]

Well, another way to see it is that they've decided to warm up their binary leftovers and make some more money with it selling it as a new creation.

wide_ocean

Considering how good ACII was, I'll gladly take their "leftovers" versus yet another uninspired shooter, racer, or action game.

Sure, if it suits tastes, why not. I'll wait for that insipred shooter, hoping AvP will be that

Well, I play just about everything and I trust my tastes more than your conjecture. It's fine that you assume this expansion is merely leftovers but you really have no evidence to support that. Given the scope and size of ACII, it really doesn't appear that Ubisoft held much back with the initial game and further logical deduction would suggest that if the expansion pack is going to take the better part of a year to see a release, it's obvious new material is being created from the ground up.

That said, AvP looks pretty solid based on the MP demo.

Not sutre i like the idea of it A) So soon B) In Rome. I was hoping for a totally different country or perhaps set closer to the real time if you get my meaning.

Not sutre i like the idea of it A) So soon B) In Rome. I was hoping for a totally different country or perhaps set closer to the real time if you get my meaning.

AzelKosMos

Well, the fact that it's an expansion and not actually ACIII means they are using this as some sort of transitional chapter in the saga, which works for me.

As to setting, I think that inevitably it will lead back to the present but I'd like at least one more excursion into the past. Actually, I'd love for them to skip back a bit and maybe hit other historical time periods. We already have so many contemporary and futuristic settings for games so I personallyprefer the historical backdrops.

I think it would be pretty cool if they did it in Rome, only about 500 years earlier where you could help take down the Roman empire (and you'd most definately get chariot races in that) :D

Wow, another Assassin's Creed.

zzzzz

wide_ocean

+1

[QUOTE="wide_ocean"]

Wow, another Assassin's Creed.

zzzzz

Macutchi

+1

Then why bother coming into this thread? To spread your own personal discontentment about a game that has received both commercial and critical success? Seriously, go play something else. Nobody is foisting this franchise upon you and you certainly don't need to troll this thread.

Yeah, I don't think it needs online multiplayer, and I think its coming out wayyyy too early.gbpackers94

Again, this isn't a sequel. It's an expansion.

I agree about the multiplayer though. AC is a single player experience.