Rumor: Assassin's Creed 2 announced officially
Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft CEO, announced yesterday the excellent figures of the French company this year, thanks to sales of Rayman Prod Presents: The Rabbits Cretins Show and Shaun White Snowboarding. Better still, he formalized the development of Assassin's Creed 2. This person obviously not surprised, given the good sales worldwide (about 5 million units) of the first draft. If we add the fact that even before the first series developers were planning a trilogy, which means that this announcement has not really what to do fade. But there is more ...
Michael Pachter, who works for the financial analysis firm Wedbush Morgan, was in the company of Giant Bomb journalist Ryan Davis on the set of gametrailers to discuss, among other things, the future of the series Assassin's Creed. The analyst, very close to Ubisoft, has assumed, while admitting "not known to video game" that the second episode of the series could happen during the French Revolution, therefore on our soil. Surprising, especially since our little finger, who is familiar with the world in the video game industry, rather evoked Italy during the Renaissance. Expect an official announcement from Ubisoft to know the outcome of this exciting story.
PS: For players interested, know that Jade Raymond, pretty well the first producer of Assassin's Creed, should not work on this second part, is apparently busy on another project. And it is not my little finger I said ...
Re: Rumor: Assassin's Creed 2 announced officially
Hopefully it will not be as empty as the first ... an Assassin's Creed without Jade Raymond makes no sense!
Ubi "working hard" on Assassin's Creed 2
Ubisoft refused to give even a vague release date for a sequel for Assassin's Creed 2 yesterday - but confirmed the title was in development.
During a conference call with investors, an analyst asked if the game would be released in the company's fiscal 2010. Ubi chief Yves Guillemot didn't rise to the bait, according to GameSpot.
"We're not answering that question," Guillemot said. "What we just can say is that we are working hard on the product."
It seems, however, that Ubisoft has been a little more loose-lipped when talking to another analyst - Wedbush Morgan's quote machine Michael Pachter, friend to videogame news writers everywhere.
According to GameSpot's Rumour Control blog, Pachter has let slip that Assassin''s Creed 2 will be set "several hundred years" after the first game's medieval Crusades backdrop. He pinned it down to a century: "sometime in the 1700s".
Pachter then speculated that this could mean a French Revolution setting for the game, and the pieces certainly do fit: a famous and bloody conflict in a city, with large helpings of political intrigue.
The science-fiction framing for Assassin's Creed's historical stealth action may have jarred somewhat in the original, but it does mean that Ubisoft can set its sequel whenever it likes.
Incidentally, Guillemot also told investors that the publisher's operating income in the first half of its fiscal year (the six months up to September) was nearly double that of the same time period last year, so things have clearly been going well at the house of Ubi.
Of course, this doesn't include the critical end-of-year sales period when Ubisoft releases its biggest titles of the year - the likes of Far Cry 2 and Tom Clancy's EndWar, not to mention next week's return of Prince of Persia.
Edge reports that Guillemot told investors he was looking forward to high marks for that game.
"Already, there's a number of good marks. We have 8s, some 9s and one 10," he said, although he knows better than us, or Metacritic.
"But we're still waiting for a lot of marks to come. So altogether, at the moment [scores are around] high 8s. We hope it can be in the 9s, but [we expect] it to be 8.5 and 9.2 or 3." He said.
( eurogamer )
