Assassins Creed 3 will see Desmond become the Ultimate Assassin (SPOILERS Alert)

[Chaos Raiden]

Assassin’s Creed 2‘s creative director, Patrice Désilets, at E3 2009 exclaimed “I’m telling you. At the end of AC2 you’ll say‚ ‘Holy crap, I never saw it coming!’ There will be a cliffhanger. It’s cool to have a cliffhanger,” that leads into Assassin’s Creed 3.

The brains behind the Assassin’s Creed series feels that you need to experience a bit of frustration at the game’s completion, with a new way to replay completed missions countering some of that nagging feeling. As well as still having secrets hidden in the game, like the glowing writing on the wall at the end of Assassin’s Creed 1. About that Patrice says “It has nothing to do with Assassin’s Creed 2, what’s written on the wall has to do with the Assassin’s Creed universe, not the second one.”

“Assassins Creed has always been planned to be a trilogy, and Desmond is going back in time, using the Animus to eventually become the ultimate assassin.”

If the above didn’t hint at another sequel enough… Later that same week Ubisoft re-confirmed Assassin’s Creed 2 is the second game in an intended Trilogy, “with all parts telling the story of the ultimate assassin.”

When asked if in the game series’ future Desmond’s story will move away from the Animus, a representative said: “It’s always been planned to be a trilogy, and Desmond is going back [in time, using the Animus] to [eventually] become the ultimate assassin. Can’t tell you any more, though.”

Do you think Desmond will be a good enough assassin to stop the end of the world on December 21, 2012?

Now that we know more about the storyline in the Assassin’s Creed universe, we also get a clearer picture of the endgame in Assassin’s Creed 3. The highly advanced race of “The Ones Who Came Before” spoke through a hologram of Minerva to Desmond, through “The Propheth” Ezio, about their Temples. Several of these Temples were built around the globe to prevent the end of the world in 2012. The only known Temple so far is below the Vatican. In Assassin’s Creed 3 Desmond will have to find the other Temples in time. This to activate them in order to prevent a solar flare from reaching and scorching the Earth, which would kill nearly everyone once again. In a race against time, Desmond will have to re-enter the Animus 2.0 to continue his search for the exact locations of the Temples via his ancestor’s memories.

See what 1 of the Temples looks like at 4:30 into Assassin’s Creed 2′s ending video:





I guess Minerva was too busy looking at the future to give Desmond any sort of indication as to the locations of the Temples? Thanks a lot Minerva!

September 2009 update: Assassin’s Creed 2′s creative director Patrice Desilets is busy finishing the second game’s development, and mentions he’s looking forward to rounding out the trilogy. To quote the Joystiq & VG247 interviews: “I have many different ideas. I’m not ready yet to exploit them. I think I have some juice left in me left to continue this. I’ve been doing Assassin’s Creed games for the past six years. It’s tough to be bored. I was a bit bored with the Turk crusade and the monk aspect, and everything, but in this there’s a brand new setting. And it’s my first sequel; I never did a sequel before, because I didn’t do any Prince of Persia sequels. I love the idea of refining your ideas, the gameplay and what you can do with it. So I’m not bored yet.” I wonder what change of scenery we can expect in Assassin’s Creed 3?

Desmond and Lucy work with the Animus 2.0 to find The Truth
November 2009 update: The November issue of Xbox World 360 magazine has an interview with Assassin’s Creed producer Sébastien Puel, where he talked about Ubisoft’s ideas for Assassin’s Creed 3! To quote:

“We’ve had discussions on that very topic. It could be really interesting but we’d need to find the right time period and place for that. Where would that make sense? We don’t want to just decide we want to change and have a female hero as the first inspiration is always the time period, but if you’re talking about, say, World War II the economies in England and France were run by women because the men were off fighting. So maybe in this context you were a woman in England during WWII. Why not? Nothing prevents us from doing it. I’m often asked if we’re doing a third game after ACII… I mean, we could do 35 of these.”

Sounds like the developers are either thinking out loud or giving us a red herring with all this talk about Europe. I think that Assassin’s Creed 3 could take place in feudal Japan and off the coast you might find the lost city of Atlantis. — As you’ll recall from playing the game, Subject 16 left behind coded clues written in blood at Abstergo, as well as the 20 glyphs he hid in the Animus for the Assassin’s to find. All glyphs put together unlock a video that shows Adam and Eve were slaves who escaped from being controlled by the First Ones and took the Apple of Eden with them. As they climb the roof of a futuristic building complex a flash of binary code reveals their location as Eden. It could be that the other slaves were building a Temple there. — Coming back to my point about this being in Japan. The environment Adam and Eve escaped into looks bushy with a large snow-topped mountain in the background. Which can be one of two of the world’s most famous landmarks, Mount Fuji in Japan or Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa! Take a look at the video and see for yourself:





December 2009 update: At the SpikeTV’s Video Game Awards 2009 on December 12th, Ubisoft’s Assassins Creed 2 won the Best Action-Adventure Game Award. When asked at the event where they’d want to set Assassins Creed 3. Jean-Francois Boivin, Production Manager on the second game, said “That’s something we don’t even know yet ourselves. Right now we’re just taking a break after shipping this game. But we’re thinking about where this license can go, and we’re working on concepts in the next few months.” Sounds like there’s plenty of time for YOU to tell them where you want the third game to take place…

November 2010 update: Jean-Francois Boivin, a Ubisoft associate producer, was recently asked if Assassin’s Creed 3 was on the way for a 2011 release. He responded by saying: “I can’t talk about next year or the following years. The only thing I can say is that it is our biggest franchise and we’re always thinking about new ways of keeping our fans excited and into the brand, so there could be surprises and announcement in the following months.”


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Absolutely excited about this.

 

[Satsui no Hado]

You're like a living gameinformer,you know that?:lol:
But seriously,this is quite interesting.

 

[Esura]

I so need to get on AC: Brotherhood.

After ACII...I'm so hyped about this series now more than when I played the first one.

 

[Darth Angelo]

I am glad the symbols are yet to be explained in the universe because if you look at them they all have a much deeper meaning and are all connected to the real life illuminati conspiracy theory and the "ones who came before" strongly hints at the Atlantis theory and the 2 are often both one and the same idea and connected to eachother. It was a letdown when in 2 they didn't appear to mean anything they were just big complex levers.

I don't see the point in sticking with the trilogy thing as it's already been broken, Brotherhood advanced the story and it was canon so it was Assassins Creed 3 trying to sneak past with a "im not a proper Assassins Creed" t-shirt on. There are so many places they could visit, so many layers of the main story to wrap up and explore, so many beautiful and facinating periods in history to recreate and slot the war into. They would be crazy to cut it short out of principal they clearly want to milk the series for all it's worth and why not? it's a genius concept..go for it.

 

[GamblingGambitCloud]

please please please please please please don't go into WW2....the last thing we need is another war game....assassin's creed has always been unique in the sense of killing with strategy...if they make it more modern, all people are going to use will be guns....and then where will the fun be? they need to go back at least 1 more time i think...here is my idea...make AC3 insanely long...take it back to a couple ancestors at 1 time....make one of the ancestors in Japan..i mean he has learned ways of killing, yes...but Desmond knows nothing about stealth or finesse...and that is crucial....or maybe...make Desmond meet and team up with this Daniel Cross guy from the comics...he can learn some brutality from that guy's Russian ancestors.....and please, for the love of God...if you're going to have Desmond be the ultimate assassin, have him be that assassin in a major city....i'd like to climb skyscrapers and all...that would be really fun...and it would make for an interesting story...also....that would make people WANT to use to hidden blades in the present

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