Gamers won't go back to Abstergo Entertainment's offices in Ubisoft's latest franchise installment, "Assassin's Creed: Unity."
GamesTm reports Ubisoft Montreal Senior Producer Vincent Pontbriant explained the franchise went a "step further" in the next title with the Modern-Day storyline. Instead of working under the Templar order in Abstergo, gamers will be researching blood lines for the Brotherhood.
Pontbriant acknowledged the franchise's storyline became more complicated after the death of Desmond Miles in "Assassin's Creed III" and fans need a refresher course as to what is going on in the Modern-Day era.
"We ended Desmond's cycles in Assassin's Creed III, and then we made Black Flag about an Abstergo employee being contacted by Assassins," Pointbriant told GamesTm. "So you played this third-person character in the present, and we wanted to go one step beyond that. We decided that you're actually, you the player, are the pilot of the Animus.
"So you start the game and then at some point you get contacted by the Assassin order to explore the memories of Arno through the Animus, and basically figure stuff out for them in the present. We made a few twists but we understand that this is the seventh game, so the story is becoming complicated; as such, we wanted to reintroduce some of the main elements of the narrative in a different way."
Little is known about the Modern-Day storyline since Miles' death prevented the apocalypse in "Assassin's Creed III." In "Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag," gamers briefly saw Juno of the First Civilization when hacking into the Abstergo servers. The other spirits of the First Civilization were attempting to stop Juno from allowing history to repeat itself with the apocalypse.
Juno was able to convince Miles there was a different way to save the world, but the Assassin didn't trust the hologram. Miles asked his father and fellow Assassins to stop Juno's alleged plan as a last request before his death.
"Assassin's Creed: Unity" will be released for the PS4, Xbox One and PC on Oct. 28.
