Stephen Totilo, reporting at Recreation File: In July of final yr, phrase started to trickle via Ubisoft that an formidable new installment of the corporate’s high franchise, Murderer’s Creed, had been cancelled.
The brand new recreation would have introduced the history-spanning collection to one in every of its most trendy settings: The American Civil Warfare and, moreso, the Reconstruction interval that adopted within the 1860s and 1870s.
On this Reconstruction-era Murderer’s Creed, avid gamers would play as a Black man who had been previously enslaved within the South and moved west to start out a brand new life. Recruited by the collection’ Assassins, he would return to the South to struggle for justice in a battle that will, amongst different issues, see him confront the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan.
That is in line with interviews with 5 present and former Ubisoft workers who spoke to Recreation File on the situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t licensed to discuss the challenge. The folks had been enthusiastic concerning the recreation however had been additionally pissed off by its cancellation, which they perceived as Ubisoft bowing to controversy.
