It appears that the first screenshot from the new Assassin’s Creed game has been leaked online. While this image does not give us a glimpse at the game’s visuals, it does confirm the country in which this new Assassin’s Creed game will be based.
According to earlier leaks – and this new image – the new Assassin’s Creed game will be called Assassin’s Creed Empire and will take place in Egypt.
The game will feature a crafting system, and from the looks of it there will be micro-transactions (as e-store has been implemented).
There is nothing more to add at this point, but we’re pretty sure that Assassin’s Creed fans will find this image… interesting.
Naturally, and as with all leaks and rumours, take it with a grain of salt!
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Finally my Beloved Egypt , Hyped for first time to scale the Great pyramid
Old style egypt, no guns and ridiculous gadgets, back to the basics, that’s what I want. Or AC in an asian country.
AC: Asia would be way too stereotypical IMO.
Besides, didn’t they do a mini-AC in Asia already?
Ikr, I was more excited for Vikings, Mongols, Egypt, Aztec etc.. there are more than enough games set in japan, I might dig China though.
Ancient Greece will be the most interesting story wise but with the simplest gameplay, everyone will use swords.
Stereotypical? Yeah they did but that doesnt count.
If they ever did AC: Asia, I’d expect Ubisoft to use just about every Asian stereotype in the Hollywood Playbook, yeah.
Granted, a handful of those stereotypes would actually be periodically accurate, but overall there’s still many more left that would be hands down moronic to implement, but would be implemented anyway, because, yeah.
You make it seem like it’s a bad thing and that it hasn’t been done in the previous installments. Stereotypical things are that make each culture unique and even going little overboard with it isn’t a bad thing. We are not talking about having asian women with cars in the game or anything. At least the game could be really different this time, and a ton of people would like to see asia in a game like this.
Well, to each their own in the end, but personally I’d rather let the East do Ninja, Martial Arts, etc. games than the West. They really just do them better, to be honest.
no i want samurais damn it, just imagine climbing those buildings.
Assassin’s Creed: Tenchu? 😛
(Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven).
All the AC games seemed to be moving forward in time with the last game being set at the end of the Nineteenth century. Not to say they couldn’t go back in time. But if guns were available in the setting it would be odd not to see them in game.
They are slowing down with the series and going back in time would make sense. Maybe not plot wise in every way but they’ll figure it out. They can’t go too much forwards either, guns etc play too much of a role.
But at some point the old assassin formula with swords and blades will just seem ridiculous. The new one has too much guns etc already.
Nice
so still sh*t! the E-STORE even in the pre-alpha stages, micro-transactions from the beginning of the development
I’m so excited!!!!
I couldn’t give two $hit$ though about the race of the main character. People who do are themselves far too heavily focused more on race than character.
Now Ubisoft are suggesting that there may not even be a game in 2017, which means they’re taking even more time to perfect the game!! And after the close resolution with Vivendi trying to take them over, they’re going to have to make damn certain that the game they release wins the hearts of billions to keep those shareholders’ dreams at night nice and wet (and green).
I would LOVE to see a game with the ambition that Unity had polished and perfected. Despite the technical mess that it was because it was released before it was ready, I’ve never been so mesmerized by a video game environment like I was that one. And if they’d had more time to polish and optimize it, despite how exponentially more graphically intensive it appeared compared to any other game, most hardware could still have run it! If they can make a game that actually runs well and looks like THAT, you’ll already have players immersed in the game, even before the story begins.
And then there’s the RPG elements that Unity had; all of the weapons, clothing, gear, customizations… I think this was a FANTASTIC addition to Assassin’s Creed. The story in that game was the worst I’d ever seen – The game play truly was boring and repetitive, but I STILL sometimes replay Unity just for the RPG components it has and because I just LOVE existing in that recreation of Paris!
The rumors about Empire in the 4Chan thread from the “Ubisoft developer” said that they’re taking a “Witcher 3” type approach to this game…. If that means going all out on the RPG elements, and then making the game look as good as Unity with polish and optimization, and all of this stacked on top of the absolutely amazing potential of the Assassin’s Creed story, this game will change everything (I hope…)
I really will be utterly surprised by what they do though because I really can’t think up many unique elements that they could add from the Egyptian setting if they continue the same previous formulas.
Putting the launch and technical issues aside I loved Unity and still think it was one of the best in the series. The combat was actually more challenging as was the stealth Syndicate was just far too easy no challenge at all.
The trouble was most of Unity’s best stories and game play were hidden among the Paris Stories and Heist quests. I played through all the Co Op missions solo and they were very challenging and far more enjoyable than the main story. Even to this day Unity maxed out in 4k @60hz is still one of the best looking games out there.
Agree with all of this.
I think these ideal settings (18th c. Paris, Industrial London) are becoming the real stars of the series. Curious to see how Egypt fits into that.
Because of the Egyptians were black meme? Could actually happen, Ubisoft is easily that stupid.
“Black” as in Sub Saharan/Nubian black? No. There’s still no evidence definitively proving Ancient Egyptians were Nubians, it’s just a theory, so making them Nubian-black would be the most controversial thing they could do, arguably (yes, Nubians had a presence in Ancient Egyptian Society, but a presence is just that, a presence).
“Black” as in dark skinned? Definitely. They’ll probably use the same “Hollywood Brown” shade as in the recent X-Men Apocalypse movie.
Or, at least that’s what I’m expecting. Whitewashing this would be a bad idea, after all, especially since they’re not casting actors, as it’s a video game, not a movie.
The arabs dont use hiéroglyphe,and find those buildings…
Black people was the builder of those.Even the grecs refer as them as the darker color men…White egyptians LOOOOOOOOL!
“Darker colour” =/= black, however.
“Black” is a term that’s used to refer to the Nubian & Sub Saharan peoples/race as a whole – the peoples that were formerly known as “Negroid” until recent decades.
“Darker colour” is vague enough to entail anything from a Persian to a Turk to an Arab to a Berber, none of which are part of the Nubian race. Hell, every one of the New World’s Natives are “darker” as well, regardless of if we’re discussing North America or South America. The term is so vague, it can mean literally anyone that’s not “light-skinned.”
There is controversy over whether or not the Ancient Egyptians (ergo the Pre-Arab Egyptians, yes, as Modern Egyptians are Arabs that migrated into the region with the Caliphates) were Nubian or not, but there’s no definitive proof of that. Right now, the standing theory is this;
“Contemporary scientists agree that Egyptian civilization was an indigenous Nile Valley development.”
There’s theories & assumptions that some Egyptian Pharaohs may have been Nubian, sure, but then again, there’s also theories & assumptions that a couple of the Roman Emperors may have been of the “darker colours” – that doesn’t mean the Romans &/or the Egyptians themselves were overwhelmingly of the “darker colours”, it just means that “darker colours” had a presence in the area, at the time, at best.
i got cancer from your post.
But why every race except for Caucasians seems to be “protected”? I mean, why isn’t having so many blacks in BF1 so controversial and a black Egyptian would be?
Because WW1, contrary to popular belief, wasn’t just a bunch of White Europeans fighting each other. The English for example had Sikh Indians (India Indians, not American Indians) fighting, the French had Algerians fighting, etc. etc. etc.
Non-whites from all over the world served in both World Wars, including African-Americans. I’m not sure how many blacks they’re putting into WW1, & I won’t comment on whether or not they’re being over-represented, but, historically at least, their presence is justified.
Egyptians on the other hand are widely regarded as a non-Nubian African culture that originated independently of the Sub Saharans to the South, the Berbers to the West, the Arabs to the East, etc.
Yes, I mean overrepresenting. In the BF1’s alpha, I’ve seen how many black people were fighting in the Europe and you got to admit it’s plain false.
I know Egyptians weren’t black but couldn’t there be some black people which arrived from other countries to trade, etc.?
I’d say Nubians were arguably a minority in Ancient Egypt, even if for no other reason than the fact that the Nile goes upriver, into Egypt, from Nubia, so, technically, unlike the Bohemia situation wherein the guy was trying to make a ridiculous case for Moors migrating all the way from Spain to Bohemia, there could arguably be some Nubian NPC’s in the game, sure.
Sub Saharan peoples, on the other hand, not so much, though to be fair, it does largely depend on the time period in question; If the Persians have already established themselves as an Empire, then there’d be a case for Red Sea trading (& overseas Caravans to the Arabian tip), sure, but otherwise, not really. Alexander was one of the earliest Europeans to reach the Indus River, I believe, so before him, trading was pretty much limited to the Mediterranean Basin itself.
Granted, Persians were probably trading with the Indians before Alexander, & the did take Egypt before Alexander took it from them, but that’s more of a case for Persian Trader NPC’s than Sub Saharan ones, really.
“I mean, why isn’t having so many blacks in BF1 so controversial”
Google “Harlem Hellfighters”. It’s what BF1’s “black” soldiers are based off of.
I know about Harlem Hellfighters and I’m reminded of them every time I ridicule the overrepresentation of black people in BF1. Yes, overrepresentation. Their number was very low in real life, barring some special regiments. So yeah, a campaign focused on Harlem Hellfighters should have all of the people belonging to the regiment black, but for example, the German Army in Europe should only be comprised of white people.
I hate it when developers falsify history only for the sake of not offending some irrational individuals that are so special that they think they can change facts as they will.
There was just one black guy in the latest trailer, I don’t think that can be characterized as over representation.
In the multiplayer I’d agree with not having playable females, because no women were allowed to fight at the time, but most European countries had compulsive conscription during WWI so the whole fit male population fought in the war regardless of race, which means you should be able to pick a non-white character if you want to.
Do you know the number of black people fighting in Europe for the German Army? It was like zero.
So things like having 50% of Germans black are beyond ridiculous.
The trailer didn’t really overrepresent black people but one plays games, not trailers.
Very close to zero, but not really zero.
50% of the Germans in the game are not black, you’re exaggerating! You can pick a black character in MP if you want, that means 50% of the Germans will be black if 50% of the players decide to play as black Germans. There’s not much alternative other than not having the option, but then that’d be under representation — which is bad PR — AND cuts a player option. Which one is the least dumb decision?
They could change it so you could choose only select appearances on each map. But they won’t do this because they are afraid and/or can’t be arsed.
That decision would be nothing but dumb. As I said, that’d limit player choice. It’d be like when Rust did that update that made your race and gender random just to stir people up — it’d complicate a very simple thing for no real reason other than to make sure the multiplayer will be a little bit more historically accurate.
But in the case of Rust it’s taking away virtually the whole freedom of choice of the character’s appearance and it was implemented without any reason. In a game about WWI it would make the whole thing more authentic.
To make it simpler, imagine that some game could give you winter uniforms on a winter map and desert uniforms on a desert map. It wouldn’t be weird or confusing.
There was a reason for the Rust thing, but it was a dumb reason. That’s my point.
Lets put it like this: to make BF1 a bit more historically accurate, you now can’t choose to play as a black dude… to make it EVEN MORE historically accurate the matches now are 3 days long instead of 30 minutes. You get to sit on a damp trench 200 yards away from the enemy team for most of the time instead of running around shooting and only specialized players can play with the vehicles. BTW if you get shot once or twice you’re dead and can’t respawn. That would be more historically accurate, sure, but not worth it. Doesn’t make the game any better.
“to make it EVEN MORE historically accurate the matches now are 3 days
long instead of 30 minutes. You get to sit on a damp trench 200 yards
away from the enemy team for most of the time instead of running around
shooting and only specialized players can play with the vehicles. BTW if
you get shot once or twice you’re dead and can’t respawn. That would be
more historically accurate, sure, but not worth it.”
But it’s a slippery slope argument. It would be too realistic even for a realistic game, let alone this arcadey production. On the other hand, restricting some unhistorical choice is viable.
DICE said they wanted authenticity but it seems they just wanted to attract more people with vain words.
That wasn’t a slippery slope argument, a slippery slope is a threat (e.g. You want this? So this is where you’ll end up), that was reductio ad absurdum.
Restricting character editing is already too much realism. You’re saying they are being lazy and coward for doing that, but they just have the goalposts in a different realistic standard than you — and it’s just a tiny detail that as we discussed earlier is not even precisely wrong, just has a chance of being partially wrong based on player preferences in a particular match.
At some point you have to sacrifice realism for fun or practicality, they decided to sacrifice it arguably 2 inches before where you would and you’re trowing a fuzz about that. You’re saying they are catering to SJWs, but what you’re doing is basically what SJWs do every time someone wears boob armor or butt poses in something.
“that was reductio ad absurdum.”
Yes, my fault.
All right, so I’ll just accept the fact that it isn’t a game like Red Orchestra and its community doesn’t really care about historical accuracy. Yeah, maybe it’s a too minute thing for a game loosely based on historical events and they would just waste time implementing new variables.
“You said they are catering to SJWs, but what you’re doing is basically
what some SJW does every time someone wears boob armor or butt poses in something.”
I didn’t really understand what you meant there. Could you elaborate?
I wouldn’t like a boob armor because it’s a stupid design, SJWs wouldn’t like it because it would “objectify women”.
It’s not for the same reason, but it’s a similar kind of complaint, albeit on the other side of the ideological spectrum. SJWs complain about details and chalk it to catering to demographics, obliviousness, laziness, cowardice, etc — when they are just design choices.
Boob armor is not realistic (apparently less realistic than a woman fighting in the middle ages anyway) and looks dumb, but it’s ultimately harmless — artists like to draw it and most people either like it or don’t care — But in comes someone to say it’s “problematic”. You get what I mean?
It’s not women fighting in the middle ages but rather in fantasy worlds.
And yeah, I get what you mean.
Yeah, I was just being cheeky, sorry.
“it seems they just wanted to attract more people with vain words.”
That’s DICE for you.
I wouldn’t know about overrepresentation since I don’t follow BF1 regularly. But if they can explain such inclusion with proper historical reasoning, I’d be willing to listen.
Because there’s evidence of black people in WWI, being such a recent and well documented event, and there’s no conclusive evidence of black people on Ancient Egypt, I’d guess.
I don’t think it’d be controversial, personally, but I don’t think they’d do it, because making a game in a majorly black populated place is just not safe and Ubi is not that bold. They’d probably implement a safe non-threatening token black main character like in WD2 if anything.
“What’s a Nubian?”
(Sorry I couldn’t resist).
“Nubia is a region along the Nile river located in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt.”
Basically it’s an ethnic group in what’s today referred to as Northern Soudan. Considering how the Nile River flows upstream towards Egypt, it’s arguably not that far-fetched to assume at least a few of them had managed to make their way upwards into the Egyptian Kingdoms.
Come on dude, Chasing Amy…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L9io-b9Uew
Damn, I haven’t seen this in years…. 😀
(Forgot we can’t post youtube links)
Chasing Amy man…
http://66.media.tumblr.com/79ba1578758422403532f120ab59a6ee/tumblr_n1xdlzc6fi1r2igv7o4_r1_250.gif
Oh, sh*t, now I get it ^^
If this turn out to be real, I’d bet its post Roman rule Egypt. Seems like a safer race approach and closer to Ezio in a way. Ubi likes to pride themselves in their bold new IPs and such, but they like to play it safe while looking flashy.
Post-Roman Egypt? You mean Byzantine Egypt, or Caliphate Egypt? Because them’s the only post-Roman Egypt there is, really.
Timeline;
– Alexander (of Macedonia) takes Egypt from the Persians
– Alexander dies, Ptolemaic Egypt begins (Ptolemaic Dynasty).
– This Greco-Egyptian Egypt endures until Caesar’s time, with Cleopatra as its final ruler. After Octavian (Augustus) defeats the Marc Anthony-Cleopatra alliance, he adds Egypt to the newly-created Roman Empire.
– Roman Egypt succeeded Ptolemaic Egypt,
– Which was in turn succeeded by Byzantine Egypt (ergo Christian Egypt),
– Which was eventually lost to the Caliphate, which started the Arabization process that’s resulted in “Modern Egypt.”
I don’t mean post as in after the Roman rule, I meant during Roman province Egypt times, as it’s the most ‘Hollywood’ era of Egypt with Cleopatra, Mark Anthony and the like. That feels more like the place they’d put their game.
Oh.
Hm.
That’s actually a possibility, yeah, “Hollywood Egypt.”
Because if you think about it, there’s not many “popular” Historical figures much earlier than that. You can maybe meet Tutankhamun, but that’s about it.
Right, there’s about a handful of well-known Pharaohs, including Tutankhamun, but of all the Egyptian rulers, Cleopatra is arguably the most, if not amongst the most well known.
On the other hand, setting a game during the Roman times would inevitably require the presence of Romans, even if only “on the sides” as “window dressing” (so to speak), which, considering how popular the Romans are, would likely draw attention away from the Egyptians towards the Romans, no?
Like, a sort of culture clash thing?
(Am I making any sense?)
Agreed, and I think they’d be counting on it, tbh. That’s the face of AC already, having the tense background with some ongoing conflict, an overwhelming military power with soldiers/guards everywhere, factions, stuff like that. Unless they are serious about innovating with the series (which we both know is not super likely) they’ll go with it. Plus Cleopatra was really into assassinating people, they won’t miss an opportunity like that.
Oho! Egyptian Assassin vs. Roman “invaders”, eh?
But…. the Romans win, so…….?
O.o
P.S. Assassin’s Creed “Empire” – Roman Empire? I mean, there’s never been an actual “Egyptian Empire” per-se, just Dynastic Kingdoms.
Maybe they’ll do a parallel secret conflict like in the Templar/Assassin war happening during the Conquest of Constantinople in AC Revelations.
Which reminds me, I’m curious to see how they’ll work around the lack of Templars, considering how the Knights Templar was only created during the Crusaders Age.
Hmm……
We have to wait and see. Personally I don’t even think this leak is real, tbh. I hope I’m wrong and it is, because like to play that particular era/place — kinda tired of post renaissance gadget fest we had recently.
something something stargate
PS4 button prompts on an MSI laptop
isn’t allways that way? lol.
Very much looking forward to it.
Assassin’s Creed is a cool idea that fell into the wrong hands.
should’ve ended a long long time ago. Nothing passes a trilogy and still gets to be good.
But for the most part the games are standalone. And even at its worst they are decent.
If it was a continuous meaningful storyline then I would’ve agreed.
last time creed was good was with brotherhood and revelations.
metal gear solid says hello
Well, every rule has an exception. In this case, its name is Kojima, & even then, it’s debatable. Phantom Pain, for example, is a trainwreck, & to be perfectly honest, in the main series (ergo excluding spinoffs like MGR) only Ground Zeroes really compares to Peacewalker – if even.
After all, most other multi-part IP’s don’t have a single visionary driving it, just a team working together, which, sooner or later, tend to run out of ideas, or get bored, decide to move on, & sell it off for a profit, etc.
Thus having zombies. They really fu*cked it there. MGS is dead. If you want to kill something, put zombies in it.
Yeah. I know Konami & Kojima had a difficult relationship these last few years (probably stemming from Kojima’s continuous delays & restarts on MGSV & his desire to quit, Silent Hills cancellation, etc.) but even so, a f*cking zombie game with recycled environments?
That’s just shameful. As a result, another piece of history will now wither away into oblivion because of its greedy-as-sh*t publisher.
You couldn’t have said it better buddy! My thoughts exactly!
you can’t compare Hideo to these losers. I’ve been a fan since MGS1. You’re one of those ppl that like their own comment, pathetic.
If you read the artbook and the interviews from Patrice, you can see how the first AC could have been way superior.
Hunting mechanism (AC3), Trading system (AC2), crafting system (AC 2017), survival mechanism (Ancestors), and so on.
Fu**ing Ubisoft always preventing Patrice from making master pieces.
That is pretty much every game ubisoft does. When far cry primal came out it was a meh reskin, with the survival mode patch it is somewhat interesting.
As long as it’s not another non-sexualized generic strong independent woman with brown hair.
Seems like an easy screenshot to forge. I wouldn’t bet on it, personally.
I like how it’s “reportedly” leaked, lol.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/306717174eb05df0e7a6e23838d494701fdc4e8976431f020cc49214cdd58a53.gif
Curious how they still are implementing concepts and ideas that were originated from the first AC game.
Long live Patrice Desilets!
i remember when this was leakead as a Prince of Persia title.
and creed 1 was leaked as prince of persia assasins and zombiu was originally a game about aliens.
I demand more brown people. We are not getting enough recognition outside of the tan hot girls in anime.
Actually put tan hot women in games, we could use more of those. Hot women I mean.
If they wanted to be as “progressive” as they pretend to be, they could have a White Egyptian main protagonist based on some late DNA tests that concluded that Tutankhamun was of European descent… I mean, aren’t progressive leftists pushing an anti-Christian discourse and promoting science as a new God? … unless, maybe, when it doesn’t suit their political agenda 🙂
Honestly, Black or White, who cares? I think most people are worried studios like Ubisoft are pushing a SJW agenda through their game ( looking at you Bioware ), not that they may play a Black or Asian protagonist…
It’s not Social Justice Bullsh*t to turn Ancient Egyptians into a Nubian Civilisation with the flimsiest of evidence in order to satisfy someone’s perceived inferiority complex, or whatever?
I mean, this whole thing does originally stem from the whitewashing 19th century European culture originally put the Ancient Egyptian civilisation through, after all (not to mention Hollywood’s delightful blonde-haired blue-eyed casting choices).
Set a course for Egypt. Set the engines to maximum white-washing. Engage!
Ppls ho buy microtransaction in a fully priced game are fuu-uucking brain-washed
From what i head this game will be different gameplay wise. More like a open world rpg less asscreed.
who cares. san andreas had a black character. Creed on vita had a female black character.
Because Watch Dogs 1 main protagonist had so much personality and Charisma.
well the last ceed leaked until a different project name.
look they already have “E-store” for game that’s coming in 2 years
“leaked”
I still miss Prince of Persia. ;(
I thought having playable blacks was a good thing to these people? Why would they oppose it?
“Because only the “good guys” can play as blacks” 😛
On the other hand it would make the Germans seem more accommodating. Nice plot twist if you think about it.
Hm.
Who cares if the protagonist is black though? Why does it even matter? And I’m saying that under the assumption that the setting is unknown. Yes if Ubisoft does it, it will probably just be them trying to be SJW. Same with Watch Dogs 2 and perhaps the same with 2K and Mafia 3. However, I’m noticing a growing trend lately. Basically you get those on one end of the spectrum who always get triggered and proceed to be a SJW. However, there’s lately been a growing trend of people on the opposite end of the spectrum who see everything with regards to PC topics such as ethnicity, feminism etc as being SJW. If a character is female, it’s automatically feminist. If a character is black, it’s automatically anti white etc etc.