EXCLUSIVE - Early Details on Assassin's Creed Hexe
Insider Gaming has learned of some early details on Assassin's Creed Hexe, including gameplay, features, and more.
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[Insider Gaming] Assassin's Creed Hexe is planned for 2026, more linear experience with some open world design, female protagonist with powers,
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"some open world?"
Literally every mainline Assassins' creed has been open world. Even the vita game was open world.
Literally every mainline Assassins' creed has been open world. Even the vita game was open world.
The euro-witch setting sounds fun but I just hope the parkour is good and more like the classic games.
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Based on that power that is described i don't think that there will be big focus on parkour. It sounds more like that you turn into cat and other animals and then jump around the environment instead of doing classic parkour.
I'll wait for the release to see how they handle this, but... going with supernatural powers were real for a game set during the witch hunts is mildly concerning.
Should probably clarify - I like the historical realism aspect of AC games. So I hold the likes of AC1, AC2, and Origins in high regard for keeping the Isu stuff low key and somewhat believable. I'm not a huge fan of how high fantasy Odyssey and Valhalla were for their respective settings, and if Hexe is embracing "witches were real" then that sounds like it might fall into the latter camp.
Should probably clarify - I like the historical realism aspect of AC games. So I hold the likes of AC1, AC2, and Origins in high regard for keeping the Isu stuff low key and somewhat believable. I'm not a huge fan of how high fantasy Odyssey and Valhalla were for their respective settings, and if Hexe is embracing "witches were real" then that sounds like it might fall into the latter camp.
I feel like Liberation falls under the same "linear with some open world" aspect.
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But Patrice had similar idea before for canceled Amsterdam 1666 project
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WVEo4yXpho
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WVEo4yXpho
First thing I thought of lol.
Looking forward to when/if Patrice/Panache revisit this concept as well. I assume he plans on doing something with it eventually given he fought tooth and nail to get the IP back.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6FtGStN_bI
This is either Hexe or Neo. But I think it wasn't supposed to be in the game hence people dug into the files.
- Project Red (Japan)
- Project Hexe (Witch Trials)
- Project Invictus (some sort multiplayer focus)
The last two Assassin's Creed games all have "magical" abilities. And of course the AC name is there to drive sales: that's the whole point of a brand name :)
The cutscene shared in that post was found in Mirage's files, but it wasn't actually used in the story. So it's either cut content or is going to be fully implemented later on with an update.
I'll accept that I'm the odd one out here, but that sounds awful to me tbh. I think the thing I'm really lost on at this point is why is it an AC game? There was no reason for this or Valhalla to be an AC game and the fact they're going ahead with this silly infinity thing just confirms to me that they're gonna keep working even harder to drive the IP into the ground
From what we know the live service thing will basically serve as a portal/launcher of some sorts, just in the form of a game client. Imagine buying a skin from the launcher and being able to use it in both AC Red and AC Hexe without having to buy the skin twice, something like that I suppose.
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Sounds pretty different than standard AC with the magic and possession and stuff -- to the point it would probably have been a new series in the past -- but I guess Ubisoft needs hits, so may as well put that Assassin's Creed label on it.
Would be kinda wild to get super-natural powers before guns being a major component for an entry
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We already got those. Invisibility in AC Syndicate and teleportation and arrows going through stone walls in Odyssey. Also switching to eagle since Origins.
Really looking forward to this. The setting alone is really neat.
I am just wary of the witch trial stuff. Almost every bit of media I have seen about the trials has been fumbled at best and gross at worst.
I have to trust that *checks notes* Ubisoft will be tactful.
Infinity Launcher is their version of the shitty COD menu thing right? That thing where it has the last 4 or 5 games on it.
I am just wary of the witch trial stuff. Almost every bit of media I have seen about the trials has been fumbled at best and gross at worst.
I have to trust that *checks notes* Ubisoft will be tactful.
Infinity Launcher is their version of the shitty COD menu thing right? That thing where it has the last 4 or 5 games on it.
They are absolutely gonna cook with the aesthetic of this game. And pretty sure we're playing as an Isu if the MC straight up has powers.
In Odyssey we straight up play as a demigod with a POE that gives her superhuman abilities.
Very very different environment/society than what we would've gotten in Amsterdam.
Guns were a really big aspect of Syndicate and the RPG games treat arrow types like firearms.
In Odyssey we straight up play as a demigod with a POE that gives her superhuman abilities.