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Assassins Creed and Watch Dogs Potentially In Same Universe?

One question that could be asked of Assassins Creed and Watch Dogs, which both share some extensive and new technology, is that are they part of the same universe that Ubisoft has created.

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Thatguy-3103960d ago

They do seem to have a similar premise. Watch dogs is basically a current assassin's creed. Wouldn't be surprise if they tie in.

Kalowest3959d ago (Edited 3959d ago )

I feel like all of Ubis games share the same art-style, Hub, interface and gameplay somewhat. If watchDogs is the Modern Assassin's Creed, does that make The Division?

rpd1233959d ago

The Division feels more like Ghost Recon, it's got the same HUD and everything.

miyamoto3959d ago

Modern SOCOM

anyways UBI sure prepared for next gen and they are geniuses

Lionsguard3959d ago

While watching Watchdogs trailers. I keep expecting him to walk into a room and change into an assassin's outfit and jump from a building into a inconspicuous pile of hay lying in the middle of the street.

erkie963958d ago (Edited 3958d ago )

I laughed more than I should have after reading that lol

camel_toad3959d ago

Yeh I like Assassins Creed n all but please keep it out of Watch Dogs. Assassins Creed has enough games as it is.

Adexus3959d ago

Watch Dogs is running on a new engine called 'Disrupt Engine'.

Lunarassassin3959d ago

I'm sorry but if ubisoft are planning this, they really must have no idea what they are doing. I mean yes have easter eggs in there but dont have anything rediculous like an abandoned abstergo building in watchdogs or a hidden blade in the grass somewhere.

aLucidMind3959d ago

Red Faction talked about Ultor, which is a major faction in Saints Row by Volition and that didn't take anything away. I think something like that would even be fine.

Spontogical3959d ago

People would be saying the same if Far Cry 3 were 3rd person :D

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Leaked Early Prototype Footage Reveals Development Stages Of Several Assassin's Creed Games

Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.

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The Best Pirate-Themed Video Games (Not Skull and Bones)

BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.

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thorstein47d ago

PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???

And they never fixed it.

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag vs Skull and Bones Video Comparison Is an Eye-Opener

Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.

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OtterX61d ago (Edited 61d ago )

I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)

/grabs popcorn

isarai61d ago

My thing is, if the Singapore govt was forcing you to do it at all cost, why not make what people wanted? How did ubi delay it for 5yrs, then again for 1yr and not just make a similar experience to black flag? How do you spend so much time and make so little?

Chocoburger60d ago

Ubisoft did make a sequel, Assassin's Creed: Rogue. It has a short campaign, and its packed with filler side quests for upgrades, but it's still a decent time.

It released on the same day as Assassin's Creed: Unity, so it was mostly forgotten.

porkChop61d ago

11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.

The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.

Jin_Sakai61d ago (Edited 61d ago )

What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.

darksky60d ago

It's because the older developers were better at it. The new generation pass most of their exams by copying code from around the web so are not nearly as good at understanding what they are developing.

LucasRuinedChildhood60d ago (Edited 60d ago )

No, here's the truth:
https://www.channelnewsasia...
This was made in Singapore and it's the first game of this scale to be made there. Ubisoft would probably cancel it normally since it clearly wasn't shaping up well but they were getting government grants to try build up the industry there.

Do you really think game developers are radically different than just 10 years ago? And this game has been development since Black Flag released.

Using one crap game to trash a whole industry of developers is stupid. It's like saying "Alien Colonial Marines proves that game developers suck now."

yeahokwhatever60d ago

i know this to be at least part of the puzzle from experience.

senorfartcushion60d ago

It's the multiplayer aspect of the world. MP games look worse than single player games, period. Every comparison we keep seeing are for games like Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones. They all have multiplayer focusses.

SyntheticForm61d ago

God, I'd love a remake of Black Flag.

Yi-Long61d ago

Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.

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