(Los Angeles) French video game maker Ubisoft announced Monday that a virtual reality version of Assassin’s Creed, one of the most popular series in its catalog since its release in 2007, will be available by the end of the year.
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Glenn CHAPMAN Agence France-Press
“Being able to feel what it’s like to become a master assassin will be a huge draw for gamers,” David Votypka, creative director for games, told AFP during a presentation for Ubisoft Forward in Los Angeles.
“It’s a good choice for virtual reality,” where the games that work best, “obviously are the ones that involve a lot of” physical challenges, allowing it to “do something different and better in some ways.” said Mr. Votypka appreciated.
Playing Assassin’s Creed means a lot of climbing, jumping from one building to another, running, fighting and many other ways to get adrenaline rushes.
A team at Ubisoft has been working to ensure people who are prone to nausea or easily disoriented aren’t upset too much, for example by adding features that allowed characters to ‘teleport’ from place to place.
The designers also tried to mitigate the violence at the crime scenes so they could be quick, by controlling where the victims could be hit and by excluding any use of torture.
The Assassin’s Creed saga was adapted into comics and cinema back in 2016, which illustrates Ubisoft’s strategy of adapting its productions to other media as well.
The game will be available on the latest virtual reality headsets from Meta, known as Quest, formerly Oculus.
Virtual reality is intended to loosen up the plot of this hit game, which has often been about modern protagonists entering their own virtual historical world via the memories of their ancestors.
Players will see one of the main characters of the series through the virtual eyes of Ezio Auditore Ezio Auditore, who died in Florence, Italy in 1524 during the early Renaissance.
You’ll also find Kassandra in ancient Greece and Connor in colonial America.
Ubisoft also unveiled on Monday Assassin’s Creed Mirage, a new episode to be played on video game consoles and PC, scheduled for release on October 12, while it was initially expected at the end of 2022.
Mirage is a homage to the first game of Assassin and is played in medieval Iraq, 9th century Baghdad, in the role of “Basim” fighting against the “Order of the Elders”.