However, it seems that Assassin’s Creed may be changing the way it approaches the modern day and meta storylines. First, it was reported along with a slew of other information on Assassin’s Creed Mirage that the new game would not have any playable present day segments. This lead to some wondering where the series would go with its story centered around the Animus and Abstergo. Now, Assassin’s Creed Executive Producer Marc-Alexis Côté, is sharing some information on what’s next for the series’ focus on the modern day.
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According to Côté, the modern day storylines will be moving to the hub of Assassin’s Creed Infinity. As Assassin’s Creed Infinity acts as a platform/launcher hub for the upcoming titles in the franchise, this means that fans may be saying goodbye to the playable segments of the modern day storylines, and characters like Desmond or Layla won’t be appearing again. Côté even implied this may be the case for the future of Assassin’s Creed, as he states people won’t need to know “who Desmond and Layla are.”
Further, Côté states that the player will take on the role of the protagonist in the modern day story, as through Assassin’s Creed Infinity’s hub, they will have access to their own Animus. “It is your DNA explorer on your desktop,” Côté states. It seems that this is designed to make entering the franchise easier for new players, as they will just be able to hop into a historical story without sitting through a few minutes of exposition on how their character got there. Whatever happens with the modern story, it seems Ubisoft is banking on Assassin’s Creed Infinity being the franchise’s future.
Whether that involves playable modern day segments or not, the Assassin’s Creed franchise will still have plenty of interesting historical locations to go to. Feudal Japan will be the setting for Assassin’s Creed: Codename Red, for example, the first game for Infinity that was unveiled at the recent Ubisoft Forward showcase.
Assassin’s Creed Infinity is in development.
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Source: IGN
