UPDATE: The dream is dead:
http://thecodex.network/legion-rumor/
The original 4chan post: https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/450420740/#450421598
I also heard a while back that a podcast of people that know AC stuff said similar things. Obviously it's far from confirmed, but AC is a franchise with a tradition of leaking.
As a huge fan of Roman history, I can't overstate how much I want the next AC game to be set in Imperial Rome, so I strongly want to believe in this. It's not my favorite period in time for an AC game, that wold be early 4th century AD, but the reign of Marcus Aurelius and the strife that followed are a very good setting for two main reasons:
- Rome, as a city, was close to its peak when it comes to architecture. The Colosseum and the Pantheon were already built, but we would be missing the Baths of Caracalla and the Basilica of Maxentius, two major buildings in the city of Rome. But we would have many other forums and Bath, and as far as population goes, the second biggest city in AC history, only behind London.
- After more than 100 years of stability, this is the time that Rome saw things starting to go wrong. We have civil war and political strife. A rich setting for an AC game no doubt. No to mention it's also more or less the same setting as Gladiator. Considering how much 300 influenced Odyssey it wouldn't be a stretch to think something similar may happen here.
http://thecodex.network/legion-rumor/
The original 4chan post: https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/450420740/#450421598
- No new AC game in 2019. This year is Watch_Dogs 3.
- Watch dogs 3 will be set in London
- Focus more on smaller firearms and knives for combat with a larger emphasis on hacking
- New Character. Can choose male or female (like Far Cry 5), but same story.
- Next Assassins Creed is codenamed Legion in 2020 on current and next gen
- Set in Italy at the end of reign of Marcus Aurelius (guy from Gladiator) and during the struggles of his son Commodus and the year of 5 emperors
- Play as Cassius or Lucia, a descendent of characters from Origins and Odyssey
- Unclear which is canon, but like odyssey features choices and heavy RPG elements and same story for both characters.
- Made by Sofia to tie up some loose ends for the "Ancient Trilogy" and currently is more first civ intensive than other game.
- Main story is more involved in assassins and politics with first civ and flashbacks to other points in Rome history being secondary. Ubi wants to make it feel more like assassins creed while feeling like Odyssey to make old and new fans happy
- Map is mainland Italy and small part of Gaul and Germania like Libya in Origins
- Revised mercenary and cultist system. Big cultists and main story assassinations have those memory things
I also heard a while back that a podcast of people that know AC stuff said similar things. Obviously it's far from confirmed, but AC is a franchise with a tradition of leaking.
As a huge fan of Roman history, I can't overstate how much I want the next AC game to be set in Imperial Rome, so I strongly want to believe in this. It's not my favorite period in time for an AC game, that wold be early 4th century AD, but the reign of Marcus Aurelius and the strife that followed are a very good setting for two main reasons:
- Rome, as a city, was close to its peak when it comes to architecture. The Colosseum and the Pantheon were already built, but we would be missing the Baths of Caracalla and the Basilica of Maxentius, two major buildings in the city of Rome. But we would have many other forums and Bath, and as far as population goes, the second biggest city in AC history, only behind London.
- After more than 100 years of stability, this is the time that Rome saw things starting to go wrong. We have civil war and political strife. A rich setting for an AC game no doubt. No to mention it's also more or less the same setting as Gladiator. Considering how much 300 influenced Odyssey it wouldn't be a stretch to think something similar may happen here.
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