A not-insignificant a part of the Ubisoft Ahead livestream tonight was devoted to Murderer’s Creed. To have a good time the doughty action-adventure’s fifteenth anniversary, senior group developer Alice Terrett was joined by a, to his credit score, very excited Danny “it is the Daddy” Wallace, to put out an nearly MCU-like timeline of each Murderer’s Creed factor taking place for the following good whereas. It contains new DLC for Valhalla, and a mysterious horror-ish tease. However high of the record, after subsequent yr’s extra trad and compact Murderer’s Creed Mirage, is Murderer’s Creed: Codename Pink, the following large flagship open-world RPG for the collection. And it is set in feudal Japan.
It is one of the vital requested and long-awaited settings for an Murderer’s Creed recreation, and Ubisoft mentioned we are going to “stay a really highly effective shinobi fantasy” in Codename Pink. Not a lot else is understood at this stage – the tease was a number of seconds lengthy and confirmed a personality perching on a roof in entrance of a sundown, so roofs and the solar confirmed, I suppose – not even a launch window. The sport is coming from Ubisoft Quebec, the studio behind Murderer’s Creed Odyssey, which is first rate information ‘cos I actually appreciated Odyssey. Anticipate an enormous open world that you simply will not 100% earlier than you die, in all probability.
The opposite fascinating tease was for one more flagship recreation, this time being developed at Ubisoft Montreal. That is “a really totally different sort of Murderer’s Creed recreation”, apparently, and the scant teaser trailer for this confirmed an AC emblem normal out of twigs and cord, hanging from a department in a spooky forest. This, too, solely has a codename: Hexe (pronounced “heck-say”). The title and the tease collectively lead me to consider it is a horror-y witch recreation. No less than, I shall be very shocked if it is a feel-good romcom. The undertaking is being led by Clint Hocking, he of Splinter Cell, Far Cry 2 and extra lately Watch Canine: Legion.
Elsewhere there’s an upcoming open-world cellular recreation (Codename Jade, set in China), and (although the final DLC was positioned as end-game content material) but extra end-game content material for Murderer’s Creed: Valhalla. Though I really feel fairly assured in saying this actually is the very last thing, as a result of it is referred to as The Final Chapter. It is a three-quest arc to tie up among the storylines in the principle recreation, as Eivor begins to really feel the decision to new journey.
There was a small replace confirming that the Murderer’s Creed TV present they’re growing with Netflix remains to be happening, below showrunner Jeb Stuart (who’s, and I can not consider I am saying this, one of many writers of Die Onerous). The mysterious Infinity has raised its head once more too, with clarification that it’s “not a recreation, per se”, however that Codenames Pink and Hexe will each be related to it one way or the other. And, in fact, the down-low on Mirage, a extra streamlined AC recreation that is going again to the collection’ roots for the large 1-5 anniversary subsequent yr.