‘Assassin’s Creed: Victory’ Visits Victorian England Next Year

<p>The <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;assassins-creed-unity-story-trailer&sol;">streets of revolutionary Paris<&sol;a> are about to give way to those of merry old England as soon as next year if new reports are to be believed about the next entry in the Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed franchise&period; <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed&colon; Victory<&sol;em> will be led by the latest in the series&&num;8217&semi; long line of Brits and take you on the carriage ride of your life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The news was first broken by Kotaku&comma; including a variety of screenshots&comma; two of which you can see above and down below&period; Ubisoft has since confirmed to Joystiq that the assets&comma; including a video allegedly seen by Kotaku&comma; are authentic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Kotaku&comma; the video in question involved a full tease of the game&&num;8217&semi;s stealth and combat mechanics&comma; featuring a mission to assassinate a probable Templar while aboard his carriage in downtown Victorian London&period; &lpar;Hence the &&num;8216&semi;Victory&&num;8217&semi; title&period; Get it&quest;&rpar; If the assets and concepts revealed by Kotaku reach fruition&comma; Victory will introduce a grappling hook mechanic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ubisoft has since admitted that <em>Victory<&sol;em> is indeed real and under development at the Quebec studio&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><em>It is always unfortunate when internal assets&comma; not intended for public consumption&comma; are leaked&period; And&comma; while we certainly welcome anticipation for all of our upcoming titles&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re disappointed for our fans&comma; and our development team&comma; that this conceptual asset is now public&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The studio further confirmed that the title has been under development for the past few years by new studio Ubisoft Quebec&comma; and will be released sometime soon&period;  As gamers have no doubt become aware&comma; the studio&&num;8217&semi;s most recent series entry of <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed&colon; Unity<&sol;em> has been suffering a host of bugs&comma; glitches&comma; and assorted technical hiccups of all the worst kinds following its release on all systems to varying degrees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In response&comma; Ubisoft assured that their number one priority for the time being while their Quebec studio forges ahead with <em>Victory<&sol;em>&period; Ubisoft has since followed through on at least part of its promise&comma; working steadily to provide a collection of online patches fixing some of the game&&num;8217&semi;s frame-rate troubles and freakish facial animations&period; It has also offered a number <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;assassins-creed-unitys-dead-kings-expansion-now-free&sol;">of DLC for free<&sol;a> as another olive branch to owners of the game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;12&sol;05055326&sol;Assassins-Creed-Victory-Carriage-BagoGames&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-69653 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;12&sol;05055326&sol;Assassins-Creed-Victory-Carriage-BagoGames&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Assassin's Creed Victory Carriage BagoGames" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"465" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Whether Ubisoft will press forward with its intended annual cycle for <em>Assassin’s Creed<&sol;em> or pauses due to <em>Unity i<&sol;em>s unknown despite speculation by unconfirmed sources that the game will release later next fall as expected&period; In the meantime&comma; gamers may agree that the series&&num;8217&semi; present state may be a ways away from &&num;8220&semi;victory&&num;8221&semi; any time soon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tell us&colon; Are you excited for your very own open-world England to run around in&quest; Or is it just too soon to be giving the series another chance&quest; What location did you have in mind for the series&quest; Try <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;five-eras-want-see-assassins-creed&sol;">some of ours on for size<&sol;a> and see just how many ideas Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed likely has left&comma; leak or not&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2014&sol;12&sol;02&sol;report-next-years-assassins-creed-heads-to-london&sol;">Joystiq<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;next-years-big-assassins-creed-is-set-in-victorian-lond-1665343788">Kotaku<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;