After all, Ubisoft has a way of teasing information about its upcoming games within the same franchise or even in other properties. The most clear example of this is when players discovered a viking tease in Division 2, leading to corroborations and rumors that the franchise was going to the Viking Era. Much is still unknown about the game, but if there is anything permitted here, then it’s most likely about vikings. Everything else is up to interpretation, but the Viking Era is surprising for a multiple of reasons, one major one being that, well, it’s never been hinted before.
The franchise has had several teases throughout the years, some outlining a ton of possible locations to explore and others being more direct, but before the Division 2 tease, the idea of an Assassin’s Creed viking game wasn’t floated around as much. With hindsight, it’s possible to see Otso Berg and Shay Patrick Cormac teasing the setting, but it was nothing concrete, at least in comparison to other teases.
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Assassin Creed 4’s Abstergo E-Mail
Back in 2013, Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, with fans eventually discovering the above Abstergo e-mail. Many say this as a tease for various upcoming games, or at the very least, a tease for a couple with a few Red Herrings. Many of these had already been explored or would be explored soon, but there’s a few notable absences.
Breaking it down, Ezio Auditore covered the Italian Renaissance and Ottoman Empire across his trilogy, with Connor taking part in the War for Independence. Assassin’s Creed Rogue deals with the American Colonies as well, while 19th century New England and the American Midwest go unexplored. Looking at the Matrilineal line, Altair covered the Holy Land and Cusades, while Arno Dorian was present during the French Revolution. The Napoleonic Wars are mentioned in Assassin’s Creed Unity, and while the time period is not correct, the mention of Egypt could be a tease for Assassin’s Creed Origins.
The notable exceptions, then, are the Midwest, the Ashikaga Shogunate, and the Summer of Love. There’s not much rumblings around the Midwest tease, as that’s most likely a Red Herring and would be compared heavily to Red Dead Redemption. The other two, though, are interesting. Namely because, by Ubisoft’s own admission, a Japanese game like the Ashikaga Shogunate has been one of the most highly demanded settings. It’s possible that Ubisoft has something in the works and is just waiting out the current saturation of Samurai-based games, but it’s almost a shoe-in by demand…eventually.
The Summer of Love is another interesting mention, as it would be the most modern setting explored yet. However, a recent Assassin’s Creed “leak” detailed a Syndicate-like game set in the Summer of Love, which actually makes a lot of sense mechanically. The leak is more than likely nonsense made up via this Abstergo e-mail, but it’s not a bad consideration.
Assassin’s Creed 3 Set Up a Trilogy
To throw out even more teases that shouldn’t be accepted as fact is Assassin’s Creed 3. The above image appears in-game, which would seemingly denote a series of games. After all, the series is often broken down into various trilogies and connections. There’s the Ezio trilogy, the North American collection, the Kenway trilogy, the Helix Player series, and so on and so forth. Ergo, the above image has manifested in two games: The Eye of Horus (Assassin’s Creed Origins), the Omega Symbol (Assassin’s Creed Odyssey), but the third is a Japanese Torri. That does not correlate with the believed, upcoming Assassin’s Creed Ragnarok game.
Assassin’s Creed is avoiding its best time period and setting by not visiting Japan, but there’s little doubt that the Viking Era game could prove to be a good playground for the series’ latest iterations. When it does release, though, fans should remember that “nothing is true” if it contains any more teasers.
Assassin’s Creed 2020 is in development.
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