14 DAY TRIAL // Ubisoft is getting ready to release Assassin's Creed: Revelations in November, which is set to conclude the trilogy of titles focusing on protagonist Ezio Auditore, but a new game will also appear next year, which wraps up the story of the current-day protagonist, Desmond Miles.
Ubisoft achieved impressive sales with the recent Assassin's Creed franchise, managing to surprise gamers not just with the action set in different historical periods, like the Crusades or the Renaissance, but also in the present, with current-day Assassin Desmond and his fight against the current-day Templars, the corporation known as Abstergo Industries, taking place in 2012.
Now, as we're just a few months away from the beginning of 2012, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed creative lead, Alexandre Amacio admitted that a new game will arrive next year to conclude Desmond's adventures and bring closure to fans of the series.
"In Assassin's Creed we set up a timeline with this whole end of the world plot of December 2012," Amacio told Eurogamer. "That's fast approaching, and the story we have to tell, we obviously need to do it before we arrive at that point."
"We had such a complex and strong narrative that we ourselves did our best to just try to execute these games before that date," Amacio said. "It would be stupid of us to be centering a game on a semi-reality and then have that conclusion happen after that date in real life."
Don't expect the conclusion of Desmond's adventures to be the end of the series, as Amacio emphasizes that there's still lots of other things that can be explored by the franchise in new cycles.
"Assassin's Creed is all about cycles - we have the Ezio cycle and the Altair cycle, and both of those are set to conclude in Revelations and we have the Desmond cycle, which is set to end on December 2012," said Amacio. "But there's many cycles within the brand - that's the whole point. History is our playground."
What's certain is that after the 2012 Assassin's Creed game, development cycles will also extend, as the teams have felt the strain of putting out new game after new game each year in recent times.