The storyline in the Assassin’s Creed series has a hard end date of December 2012. Because of that, the developers at Ubisoft Montreal are pushing out five games in six years in the franchise, but that’s not the plan long-term.
“In Assassin’s Creed we set up a timeline with this whole end of the world plot of December 2012,” said Assassin’s Creed: Revelation creative lead Alexandre Amacio. “That’s fast approaching, and the story we have to tell, we obviously need to do it before we arrive at that point. We had such a complex and strong narrative that we ourselves did our best to just try to execute these games before that date. It would be stupid of us to be centering a game on a semi-reality and then have that conclusion happen after that date in real life.”
“Assassin’s Creed is all about cycles – we have the Ezio cycle and the Altair cycle, and both of those are set to conclude in Revelations and we have the Desmond cycle, which is set to end on December 2012,” said Amacio. “But there’s many cycles within the brand – that’s the whole point. History is our playground. We’re already structuring the way we do Assassin’s Creed, so it will no longer ever be like that. Our development approach is changing so our cycles aren’t structured the same way – so it gives us a little bit more development time.”
Source: Eurogamer
