From their perspective, they’re Arno, and they look at you, and the face is replaced with a generic.” We just replaced Arno’s face with generic faces from the brotherhood. We keep the suit and gear of your friends – now customization has gameplay impact. “When you’re playing as Arno in the co-op missions, all the other assassins are just assassins from the brotherhood. They have nothing to do with Arno’s quest, they have to do with his duty to the assassins. “We took all the skills we wanted in co-op and put that on our main character, Arno. He also added that co-op missions would be separate from the game’s storyline. So, I asked, could we do that with ‘Unity’?”Īmancio explained that while playing co-op, players will always see themselves as Arno. From their perspective, they’re Aiden Pearce and some random hacker is hacking into their world. “If you’re playing co-op in a game, who are the other players? We looked to another Ubisoft game, ‘Watch Dogs’, I asked them, who do you play when you’re playing PvP (player versus player)? If you’re Aiden Pearce, they are just some random hacker. We eventually injected a lot of the stuff we were developing for co-op into our single player experience.”Īdding this feature in an effective way wasn’t easy, and the development team took some hints from Ubisoft’s open world action game “Watch Dogs”, which launched in May. “We knew we wanted to have the actual ‘Assassin’s Creed’ experience in the game – play ‘AC’, but with other people. Co-op could mean many things,” he explained. At first, we didn’t know what exactly co-op meant. This is what we wanted for a long time, and what fans wanted.” We also knew we wanted to add a co-op element.
“We knew this was going to be the first full next-generation ‘Assassin’s Creed.’ Just for next-gen. “We started working on the game four years ago,” Amancio told IBTimes on Wednesday. “Assassin’s Creed Unity” is the seventh main installment in the franchise and the successor to last year’s “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.” The game takes place in the city of Paris during the tumultuous French Revolution and follows main protagonist Arno Dorian’s quest to rise through the ranks of the assassin brotherhood.
Ubisoft’s next-gen “Assassin’s Creed Unity” will launch October 28 for the Xbox One, PC and PlayStation 4, and we recently spoke to Alex Amancio, the game’s creative director, to discuss why the title won’t be coming to the previous generation of consoles and how “Unity” will introduce cooperative multiplayer missions to the franchise.