Insomniac Takes a Stab at the Assassins in Sunset Overdrive

<p>Girls just want to have fun&comma; and the folks at Insomniac just want to show you they care in <em>Sunset Overdrive<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was just last week that Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed series developer Ubisoft reluctantly spilled the beans on the decidedly sparse selection of<em> <&sol;em>playable female characters in <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;e3-2014-assasins-creed-unity-4-player-co-op&sol;"><em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed&colon; Unity&&num;8217&semi;s <&sol;em>4-player co-op<&sol;a> &lpar;and by that we mean<em> zilch<&sol;em>&rpar;&period; This factoid didn&&num;8217&semi;t stand well with some following creative director Alex Amancio&&num;8217&semi;s claim that female character option was cut from the game because of alleged programming issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now it&&num;8217&semi;d seem Insomniac begs to disagree&period; The<em> Ratchet &amp&semi; Clank<&sol;em> veteran studio is opening the doors of its Xbox One exclusive open-world shooter of <i>Sunset Overdrive<&sol;i> to whatever type of character they like&&num;8211&semi;and it would seem that includes women dressed up in Ubisoft&&num;8217&semi;s very own Assassin garb courtesy of Ezio de Auditore&&num;8217&semi;s 15th century wardrobe&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the video above&comma; Insomniac&&num;8217&semi;s asked&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Can you play as a female character&quest;&&num;8221&semi; The presenter replies in kind&comma; saying&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Of course&period; Self-expression is super important to us&period; You can be female&period; You can be male&period; You can be different skin tones&period; You can be different body types&period; And all of the clothing is gender neutral&period; So if you want to be a dude in a skirt&comma; you can be a dude in a skirt&period; Just be who you want to be&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Elsewhere in the video&comma; Insomniac details how traps can be used in <em>Sunset Overdrive<&sol;em> to defeat enemies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; the universe simply must have a sense of humor&comma; because <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed&colon; Unity<&sol;em> and <em>Sunset Overdrive<&sol;em> just happen to release in North America this <strong>October 28th&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tell us&colon; Which &lpar;if not both&rpar; are you picking up&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2014-06-20-you-can-be-a-female-assassin-in-sunset-overdrive">Eurogamer<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;