You could be playing a Montreal mission, going through the Caribbean Sea, and now you’re getting attacked by a fort which was built by Singapore and the way it fits together is much more challenging.” “If you look at Assassins Creed 3, for example, every time you went to do naval gameplay you have a loading screen and you go to a different world-basically you’d transitioned from Montreal content to Singapore content,” Luehe explained. In this latest installment the Ubisoft studios are combining to create sections of the larger story and in-game world that overlap. This is the fifth game Singapore has worked on in the series-it had input into AC2 in 2009.

“Looking at the time period that also fit in well with golden age of piracy, and on top of that the naval gameplay – which was being developed here in Singapore for Assassins Creed 3 – was already showing a lot of potential.”Ī fight on the high seas. “They were toying with the idea of ‘what if we went one generation back further than that and told the story of the grandfather of Connor,’” Luehe explained. Writers Corey May and Darby McDevitt hatched the idea of examining the forebears of star AC3 character Connor Kenway.

The impetus for the latest piece of the saga began over two years ago while AC3 was still in development. While investigating for The Templars, the player’s character comes to learn of the secret, ancient war between Assassins and Templars upon which the game franchise was built. “You have your own workstation, it’s your job, essentially, to get into your animus and experience these memories,” Luehe said. The focus of your research is privateer Edward Kenway. In the story, the player takes on the role of a modern-day employee of Abstergo Industries (otherwise known as The Templars) tasked with looking through the personal histories of Assassins using a device called an Animus which allows people tap into the dormant memories of long dead ancestors through DNA (anyone familiar with the AC series knows this already, of course).

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