14 DAY TRIAL // The development team at Ubisoft is aiming to make the world of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity as interesting for players as possible, and that means that the side content needs to deliver the same quality experience as the core story.
In a new official blog, the company delivers more details on the Paris Stories quests, which are designed to take advantage of the huge amount of history that’s associated with the capital of France.
Russell Lees, one of the lead writers working on Assassin’s Creed Unity, states, “Normally in open world games, you have standard, open world activities. But we realized that we had Paris, France, and there was tons of historical content there that we wanted to take advantage of. As a result, every single one of the side content activities has a historical tie, either to some interesting person or event that took place during the period.”
Ubisoft has searched for interesting characters connected to the French Revolution and some of them are chained in order to create bigger stories that curious players will be able to uncover through gameplay.
All the Paris Stories are mostly independent from the main story of Assassin’s Creed Unity because the development team does not want gamers to feel forced to play through them.
Some of them will be given out directly by the Assassin Brotherhood, while others are simply started by meeting a certain character or by stumbling into a situation, and gamers always have the option to ignore them and focus on other elements of the open world.
Lees adds, “Although you can stumble upon some of the mission-givers around the city, you can also read the newspapers that are scattered around the city for clues. If you read an article of interest in the newspaper, you might suddenly see a new icon appear on the map, which you can then go and investigate.”
The writer working on the Paris Stories content has previously also contributed content to both Assassin’s Creed III and Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag.
The new game in the long running franchise will be launched on the PC, the PlayStation 4 from Sony and the Xbox One from Microsoft and can be played starting on November 11 in the United States and two days later in Europe.
At the same time, gamers will be able to get access to a new Rogue title linked to the franchise, which will only be offered on the Xbox 360 and the PS3.