Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an in-development Murderer’s Creed recreation final summer time, partly attributable to issues over the political local weather in the US.
In response to present and former staff, talking anonymously to Sport File, the cancelled recreation was deliberate to happen in the course of the Reconstruction interval that adopted the American Civil Battle within the 1860s and 1870s.
It’s claimed the Murderer’s Creed recreation would’ve adopted a Black man who had been previously enslaved within the South and moved west to start out a brand new life.
“Recruited by the sequence’ Assassins, he would return to the South to battle for justice in a battle that may, amongst different issues, see him confront the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan,” based on interviews with 5 present and former Ubisoft staff.
Three of the workers advised Sport File that the sport was cancelled final summer time by Ubisoft administration in Paris for 2 causes: on-line backlash across the reveal of Yasuke, a historically-inspired Black samurai in Murderer’s Creed Shadows, and concern across the political local weather in the US.
“I used to be terribly disillusioned however not stunned by management,” one supply advised Sport File. “They’re making increasingly selections to take care of the political ‘establishment’ and take no stand, no threat, even artistic.”
Ubisoft’s new Tencent-backed subsidiary formally began its first day of operation final week.
VGC understands that Ubisoft knowledgeable workers on Wednesday that the brand new subsidiary shall be known as Vantage Studios and has began work below the management of co-CEOs Christophe Derennes and Charlie Guillemot.
