“Assassin’s Creed: Unity” is will feature historical characters from the French Revolution including Napoleon, Marie Antoinette and more.
Creative Director Alex Amancio talked to UbiBlog during San Diego Comic-Con 2014 about the historical elements in the upcoming title. Amancio also stressed the developers revisited the core gameplay elements in order to give players a unique experience. Check out the video below to learn more about the history in “Unity.”
Single-Player Scriptwriter Travis Stout also recently shared information regarding “Unity’s” leading man in an “Assassin’s Creed” DevBlog. Stout explained Arno is looking for redemptation as his past mistakes (or perceived mistakes) are haunting him throughout the title.
“He is a very driven young man,” Stout said in the blog. “He is haunted by mistakes in his past or perceived mistakes, that he feels he must atone for. He is very devoted to the Assassin Order as an ideal but, at the same time, he is not as impressed with the weight of the long mystical tradition and ancient rhetoric as some of the other Assassins. He likes to think for himself and make his own decisions. He isn’t the type of person who will believe something just because someone tells it to him.”
Stout added Arno is an educated man with a rich family history with the Brotherhood.
“He was raised in a noble household and had access to tutors and books so he is very well-read,” Stout said. “He has a habit of quoting the classics and tends to use humour to deflect when he is emotionally vulnerable, like a lot of people do I think. We very much wanted him to not be the sort of grizzled bad-ass spouting one-liners that you see in a lot of action movies. We wanted him to feel like an actual person.”
“Assassin’s Creed: Unity” will be for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on Oct. 28.
