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Assassin’s Creed has always been a series that’s resonated In the hearts of many gamers since 2007 well on into the newest entry with Assassin’s Creed IV (which now would be Assassin’s Creed Unity and Rogue).

What began as a game which relied heavily on stealth, tact, and patience, has evolved into a stealth action adventure title with plenty of brass behind its name.

What have you become Assassin’s Creed? What have you become!

Recently it feels as if the series has began to tangent, with the entry of Assassin’s Creed: Rogue coming this fall to Last-gen consoles. Honestly, we’ve been to America already in Assassin’s Creed III, and It bombed pretty badly.

We had our block button replaced by a counter button, and were forced into a colonized Pre-America.

We had the Red Coats as our enemy, Instead of Templar agents exclusively, and were given Ben Franklin as more of a filler Instead of an inventor as we were originally promised with the articles showcasing the title.

As far as Connor is concerned, we couldn’t think up a more out-of-place character if we were given a pen. A native American Shawnee warrior (yes that was Iroquois he spoke, and it was embarrassing to me), who decided to fight the Templar to free his land.

It would be nice if Ubisoft could add more women to the Assassin’s Creed universe.

He continues his struggle only to find out that his own father is indeed a Templar grandmaster, and decides to let him live, despite him attempting to kill him. From here we were given DLC that showed us what George Washington would have been like as a tyrant if we’d actually made him King (which he was offered by the founding fathers), but the didn’t really portray any characters correctly at all.

For Instance did you notice the stereotype of the Army General smoking a cigar, or the French Navy, retreating? The best thing we could get from the next two Assassin’s Creeds is for them to go back to basics.

We can already guess that we’ll see Connor in Assassin’s Creed Rouge, or even play as him for a while. I’m also willing to bet that we’ll see more on why Haytham became a Templar. The biggest upsetting factor is the fact that the main protagonist Desmond Miles, the character we started this all with is dead.

It would be really nice if Ubisoft could go back to the roots of Assassin’s Creed again.

We finally experienced some gameplay in Assassin’s Creed III, but at the end he sacrificed himself as a martyr. To add Insult to Injury, his ultimate gameplay was just to kill clay, and infiltrate abstergo..?

Ubisoft should find a good ending point for the series before It runs out of steam like The Prince of Persia unfortunately did with their attempted reboot in 2008 (which got paid reviews).

If they don’t, we’ll see Assassin’s Creed shelved until they figure out their next move, or it will become the new Call of Duty franchise.

Kenay Peterson
The Gaming Ground