The brutal short film outlines the events leading to the start of the upcoming game

Jul 26, 2014 16:50 GMT  ·  By

Ubisoft’s panel at this year’s edition of the San Diego Comic-Con played host to a lot of events, and more information regarding the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity was uncovered.

In order to offer a sort of prologue and outline the events of the French Revolution, the upcoming game’s setting, The Walking Dead co-creator Tony Moore teamed up with famed musician and horror director Rob Zombie and put together a chaotic and brutal animated film meant to promote Unity.

The film was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con, and although it starts out pretty slow, compared to other Rob Zombie works, it gets to “stabbing in the eye” levels pretty quick, escalating into serial guillotines and a tsunami of blood.

While the film shows plenty of blood, death and fighting, it’s more of a narrative piece than a straight-up action one, and the main character and star of Assassin’s Creed Unity, Arno Dorian, only shows up at the end.

The upcoming action adventure game takes a pretty bold step forward, introducing for the first time in the series the options for gamers to play the campaign in cooperative multiplayer.

Assassin’s Creed Unity, the fifth chapter in the series, is scheduled for launch on October 28, 2014, heading for the Windows PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 platforms.