Ask anyone about the current state of Ubisoft, and the most optimistic answer you’ll get is probably a sigh. While flagship franchises like Assassin’s Creed have had their ups and downs, most fans won’t attest that they’re currently the best they’ve ever been. I’m actually fond of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Mirage, but I’m not going to argue that either could go toe-to-toe with Assassin’s Creed 2.
Ask why Ubisoft has gone downhill, and you’ll get a lot of different answers. The simplest explanation is scale — after years of expanding its development resources and embracing huge open worlds, the soul of the games is harder to find. Some people might argue that the games have gotten too political, pointing to Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ controversial inclusion of the samurai Yasuke. If anything, though, the latest news suggests that Ubisoft has gotten cold feet about political issues, and that might be a much more legitimate problem.
Ubisoft Canceled A Reconstruction Era Assassin’s Creed
We All Know The KKK Are Templars
According to a report from Stephen Totilo, Ubisoft canceled a planned Assassin’s Creed game set in the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War. Like in Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry, the planned protagonist was a former slave. This time, the political climate of 19th-century America would have been front and center, dealing with issues like the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
The game was still in planning stages, but Ubisoft reportedly brought the hammer down due to concern that the game was
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