Assassin’s Creed fans who are looking for a game set in China are in luck, as such a thing has been announced alongside downloadable content for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Unity.
The season pass for Assassin’s Creed: Unity – priced at $29.99 in North America – will offer several different types of downloadable content, including three new missions and over thirty additional items; one such item is a two-handed war axe, which will only be available to players who pre-order the season pass. The main draw of the pass alongside those items is an additional campaign titled Assassin’s Creed: Unity – Dead Kings, which will see Unity‘s protagonist Arno Dorian in the rural Parisian commune Saint-Denis. According to creative director Alex Amancio, Dead Kings will feature “the darkest story that we’ve ever told on the franchise,” with Arno exploring underground burial grounds of former kings and solving puzzles along the way. The add-on campaign also features a new weapon known as the “Guillotine Gun,” which can fire explosive rounds in addition to being usable in close-range combat.
Chronicles: China will be continue the story of Chinese Assassin Shao Jun following her training from Assassin’s Creed II protagonist Ezio Auditore. Click the image to view it in a higher resolution.
The second main feature of the season pass is the inclusion of a completely separate downloadable game titled Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China. As its name implies, Chronicles: China is set in 16th-century China, and focuses on the Chinese Assassin Shao Jun, who was featured in the 2011 animated film Assassin’s Creed: Embers. Following Shao Jun’s training from Ezio Auditore in Embers, Shao Jun returns to Beijing to seek revenge against the people who eliminated her brotherhood. Unlike most other Assassin’s Creed games, Chronicles: China is played from a 2.5D perspective, and features a more cel-shaded art style.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity will be released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC on November 11 in North America. Release dates for Assassin’s Creed: Unity – Dead Kings and Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China have not yet been given.
Source: Official Ubisoft blog
Noooo, this isn’t fair ;____;
It’s like they heard me complain on the Internet that a game set in China would be one of the few directions the series could go that would really interest me.
I don’t want a PS4 yet! Or Unity, sans China.
It’s just a sidescroller though – not even really an AC game. So you’re not getting your sprawling China setting anyway.
Yes, well…. I only read the article title
I’m looking forward to Chronicles, it seems pretty neat. The last time they made a sidescrolling Assassin’s Creed, it was pretty fun.
Really? They’re finally using China as the setting and they’re half-assing it? I don’t know whether to be thrilled (because I won’t have to buy a new console to play it… and I probably would, because I’ve been pining for China as the setting since AC2) or extremely disappointed. I’m thinking the latter, because DAMN China has so, so much potential and it’s… gonna be used like this? Damnit Ubisoft… And with a female protagonist too. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SO GREAT and it’s already getting shafted. ;__;
*squints* Are we thinking of the same Assassin’s Creed? Because the only sidescroller I remember was that DS game and it was pretty terrible…
Rhys thinks AC3 was great. His taste in AC games is questionable.
900p at 30fps. Next gen livin’
Not interested in Unity proper, now I know the China campaign isn’t a true game, and it all doesn’t look as good as it should or could.
Thank you Ubisoft. I feel better now. I’m not missing anything.
Still miffed if this is the only time China will come up in the franchise though. You squandered an opportunity.
… How is a full (downloadable) game not a true game? ❓
*rereads thread*
….isn’t it a sidescrolling spinoff and not a traditional AC game?
Unity with France only just came out but now we know about nexty year’s entry! Assassin’s Creed: Victory, taking place in Victorian-era London.
I like this setting more than the French revolution, but I dunno if I’ll jump back into it having now missed two (or three? what with Rogue) entries