Assassin's Creed Almost Wound Up Going to Space

From ancient Egypt and Greece to the Italian Renaissance and the American and French Revolutions, the Assassin's Creed franchise has explored a lot of time periods. Still no Wild West or Japan. The sci-fi conceit of present day characters using a machine to relive the memories of ancestors genetic and otherwise is what gives the franchise its lifeblood, for better and worse. The series would have had a weirder trajectory had it been planned as a standard trilogy.

The series would have ended with space. A researcher for conspiracy theory and religion in digital media culture recently published his research that came from speaking to multiple ex-Creed developers. The modern day storyline would have had a more epic end to the war between the present day incarnation of the Assassins and the Templars, according to de Wildt.

The evil corporation Abstergo would've been defeated by using the combined knowledge and skills of all his ancestors, including AC1's Altair and AC2's Ezio. The 2012 doomsday storyline the games had been gradually building to would have seen the new Adam and Eve show up in AC2 on another planet. When de Wildt asked where the two would go, Désilets eagerly replied: "Bom!" It is a spaceship. The Isu race was thought to be aliens by many fans, and they would have had a spaceship for the two humans to use.

The game where Lucy was killed off and the one where Desmond died in AC3 were both released before Désilets left. It would have been quite the end of the series. If the franchise went on after the original ending, it would have been interesting; you can imagine the franchise going on ice for a couple of years before being brought back.

Changing tracks on AC3 hasn't stopped Ubisoft and the franchise from getting weird with the franchise: recent installments like Odyssey and Valhalla have played heavily with the mythology of their respective time periods. It is possible that the series will return to the Adam and Eve thread in later games.

via [Eurogamer]

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