Next Assassin’s Creed Reportedly Hitting in 2017, Set in Egypt

<p>Ever since <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed II <&sol;em>in 2009&comma; Ubisoft has released a new title in the series every year&comma; &lpar;<em>Rogue <&sol;em>and <em>Unity <&sol;em>both came out in 2014&rpar;&comma; but according to reports from <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;sources-next-big-assassins-creed-set-in-egypt-skippin-1750937895">Kotaku<&sol;a> the series may be taking a one year break&period; Allegedly code-named <em>Empire<&sol;em>&comma; the next entry in the AAA franchise will not be hitting store shelves until 2017&period; This will mark the first time since 2009 that the series has skipped a year in its release schedule&period; The other major tidbit that Kotaku has reported on is that the series will head to Egypt&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Along with the Egypt tidbit&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;neogaf&period;com&sol;forum&sol;showpost&period;php&quest;p&equals;191191986&amp&semi;postcount&equals;1">a post on NeoGAF<&sol;a> that compiled posts on 4chan from an alleged Ubisoft developer cites many other interesting notions&period; For one thing&comma; the game may take place before all the Assassins and Templars existed&comma; and will also be the game which contains the most story in the series&period; As the 4chan poster cites&comma; <em>&&num;8220&semi;Going back to Ancient Egypt means they can do whatever they want&comma; without &&num;8220&semi;historical accuracy&&num;8221&semi; to hold them back&&num;8230&semi;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em> which means they can forge a lot of the Assassin&sol;Templar story origins without worrying about historical fact too much&period; The final tidbit is that the game may star a former slave who barely speaks&comma; which is a drastic change from all of the previous <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed <&sol;em>protagonists&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This shift in release schedule may be indicative of the popularity with which the <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed <&sol;em>series is going to try to maintain over the next year&period; At the end of 2016&comma; there will be an <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed <&sol;em>movie starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard&comma; but before then there will also be two off-shoot games that complete the <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed Chronicles<&sol;em> trilogy&period; Presumably&comma; the film will be the last <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed<&sol;em>-related product before the 2017 release&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Sources&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;sources-next-big-assassins-creed-set-in-egypt-skippin-1750937895">Kotaku<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;neogaf&period;com&sol;forum&sol;showpost&period;php&quest;p&equals;191191986&amp&semi;postcount&equals;1">NeoGAF<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;