The Saga of Assassin's Creed

The Assassin’s Creed franchise is a very long, and profitable chain of games produced by game company, Ubisoft. With the new release of the most recent title, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, We thought it was a good idea to look back at the franchise as a whole and figure out what to expect in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

Starting way back in 2007 when the first game, appropriately titled Assassin’s Creed, was released. Assassin’s Creed was a very profitable and well received game selling over 8 million copies by April 2009. In short, the game was a massive success.

“Everything is well balanced which doesn't make the games too irritating, but still keeps the games difficult. I also really like it because of all the historical figures and context”, said gamer Kaelan Wolfe. Ubisoft went on to make six more games using the same format and gameplay elements, making only minor changes here and there, that all seemed to do extremely well, until Assassin's Creed Unity.

Assassin's Creed Unity was the 8th installment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise that came out in 2014 which took place during the French revolution. Assassin’s Creed Unity started to move away from that Action/Story game archetype and move more towards a more loose game, adding some RPG (Role Playing Game) elements and light character customization which started to move all of the games prior to more RPG experiences.

The next game, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate further emphasised the RPG elements with two playable characters and even more ability to customize your character, along with new gameplay mechanics which were furthered in Assassin’s Creed Origins. But the most recent game, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey completely revolutionized the Assassin’s Creed games for good. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey featured giant open world spaces, with actual choices in the game that could affect the story and choosable characters to play, with canon choices, it was completely changed into an RPG in disguise.

Lots of people had mixed reactions about this change “I can sum it up in four words, I really hate it, it's awful and I genuinely don't like it, they just don't feel like Assassin’s Creed games anymore,” said Wolfe. It's safe to assume that the new Assassin’s Creed game will still continue the RPG trend and disappoint some long time fans, while making newer fans and some of the people who still stick around happy and excited for new releases.