Posted March 27, 2012
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/03/28/interview-ubisoft-on-reinventing-assassins-creed-high-fiving-george-washington-part-1/
PC Gamer: Why did you go with the Revolutionary War setting?
Alex Hutchinson: Well, it’s different. Everyone had been itching for a new character and a new period, so we knew we wanted to go somewhere quite radically different… It was a nice clean break, this notion of coming to a new continent–not just a new city, but an entire new country–was really juicy. And it’s a place that other games can’t go. You can’t set a shooter here. The guns are too terrible. The idea that everyone would say, “I don’t see how that’s going to work”, is great. That’s our job: make it work.
This part I hate, since when was Ubisoft the expert on shooter settings? The same people who have been putting out shitty Tom Clancy games set in Afghanistan or some other Middle Eastern Country. You can make a shooter in that time period. Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword already does that (you can switch your view from Third to First Person). Sure the guns were shitty but that is not all of the combat. You had melee, calvalry, and bayonets too. You can easily make a first person melee-shooter hybrid like The Chronicles of Riddick. And even then, saying that the guns are in accurate, why does your new protagonist have akimbo flintlocks?
PC Gamer: Why did you go with the Revolutionary War setting?
Alex Hutchinson: Well, it’s different. Everyone had been itching for a new character and a new period, so we knew we wanted to go somewhere quite radically different… It was a nice clean break, this notion of coming to a new continent–not just a new city, but an entire new country–was really juicy. And it’s a place that other games can’t go. You can’t set a shooter here. The guns are too terrible. The idea that everyone would say, “I don’t see how that’s going to work”, is great. That’s our job: make it work.
This part I hate, since when was Ubisoft the expert on shooter settings? The same people who have been putting out shitty Tom Clancy games set in Afghanistan or some other Middle Eastern Country. You can make a shooter in that time period. Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword already does that (you can switch your view from Third to First Person). Sure the guns were shitty but that is not all of the combat. You had melee, calvalry, and bayonets too. You can easily make a first person melee-shooter hybrid like The Chronicles of Riddick. And even then, saying that the guns are in accurate, why does your new protagonist have akimbo flintlocks?
