Assassin's Creed history with Egypt goes back to an even earlier leak

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After yesterday's news that we might just get an Assassin's Creed game set in Egypt in 2017, it's time to do some time travelling without the need for an Animus or the Helix. Cast your Eagle Vision back to 2012 and consider the below screenshot that was apparently leaked from Ubi. At the time we thought it was a Prince Of Persia reboot - see the POP description at the bottom that sent us all into a frenzy - but even then we thought it was hella like Assassins.

[DarkOcelet]

Hmmm, if they are actually working on this Assassins Creed since 2012, i might consider getting it day 1 because of the amount of time and effort that went into it and also because of its in Egypt :3

[cemelc]

I wonder why do you believe those time statements?

The only real thing you know about AC is that it comes yearly.

[DarkOcelet]

Well, the picture is from 2012, so even if it came in 2016, that means they spent 4 years working on it so they have put effort into it.

[AlphaCentyros]

Well... the development time for AC Unity was also 4 years, and we all know that turned out :P

Regardless, if the rumors are true I'll be a very happy AC fanboy once again. I've waited for an AC in Egypt since AC2, it would be an instant buy for me too!

[Bdub2000]

If Ubisoft gains everyone's trust back because a photo from 2012 resembles/foretold a future release, then God help us all. Gaming is doomed.

[pinkcrocodile75]

Egypt is fine, however if they are rebooting it to start in Ancient Egypt, then we have a problem because the Templars were a Christian order and hense were created after Christianity became an organised religion.

The bible was written in 325AD at the Council of Nicea presided over by the pagan emperor Constantine I. So we are looking at something new in regards to the Antagonist of the plot.

This could mean a very differnt game to all that came before and with it some serious new life be introduced.

I for one am very excited, it's much better than reports of an AC in Japan, thats the last thing we need, a quick jump forward in histroy bring us to Japan's invasion of China or Japan's Invasion of the Pacific... either way Japan would look like a bunch of B@st**ds (which at the time they were).

Ancient Egypt, is a genius stroke that will inspire gamers across the console divide in equal measure!.

When you think of Ancient Egypt is bring up a wealth of stories and huge long lasting dynasties that can be wolrked into a multitude of games. They could introduce background narratives that include some of the old testament like the plagues of Egypt.

One other bonues is that it would sate the moron bible bashers in America. I don't believe in god because... well I'm not a moron. But for the religious crazy's in the US some background narritives wopuld be brilliant.

I personally would love to see something like

The Adventures of Sinuhe

The story of Sinuhe - an official of Pharaoh's court who goes on the run when the king is assassinated.

[DragonKnight]

@PinkCrocodile: You have to remember that AC lore holds that the Assassins and the Templars existed in various names and forms well before they were finally referred to as Assassins or Templars. So that the Templars are actually a Christian Order is irrelevant to the lore of the series as they easily could just call them something else prior to calling them Templars. Also, I disagree that Japan is the last thing the series needs. Fans have been clamoring for Japan since AC2. And who cares how any group looks. If Japan looks like b@$tards in the game, it's historically accurate. You can't change history so too bad for Japan.

At least, that's how it should be, but we all know what happened with AC3 and how Ubisoft are afraid of the PC Police these days.

[Genuine-User]

I'll get it purely on its setting and The Witcher's influence.

[DarkOcelet]

I read that they want to compete with Witcher 3, if this is true, then they will have to up their game.

[Genuine-User]

That's what the rumours say.

My dream AC game would be a mixture of:

Assassins Creed parkour
Bloodborne combat
The Witcher's grand scale and interaction

[WellyUK]

needs a way longer dev cycle if they want to be any where near Witcher 3 quality.

[oasdada]

Maybe its a POP game?

[DarkOcelet]

POP game in an Ancient Egypt would be cool. But i think this fits Assassins Creed style more.

[iNcRiMiNaTi]

Assassin's Creed 1 started out as a Prince of Persia game called Prince of Persia: Assassins

[oasdada]

Yes it would... but with multiple itterations and filler games Assassins creed has become more of a controversial game if anything else. Hope its prior reputation doesnt crush its potential. Agree with foxtrot, it should just be called assassins creed if they really want to go for the AC brand

[Grayson076]

You're from Egypt, right DarkOcelot?

[DarkOcelet]

Yeah, I am. :)

[-Foxtrot]

I'm hoping this is a reboot. They should drop the Empire bit and just call it Assassins Creed.

Egypt is the perfect place to start the new games timeline and if they re-work the first civilisation thing it could really link to Egypt well.

[Khaotic]

I agree I havnt played this franchise since the second game in the series, if this is true i will consider this one heavily.

[Kalebninja]

Wasn't this rumored to be for a game called Osiris where you were going to play as a god of death?

[lashes2ashes]

Yep. First it was a reboot of prince of Persia then it was Osiris now some of it has reportedly been worked into next years assassins creed.

[syotos77]

I'd be much more interested in this game than another assassin's creed personally.

Edit: even as much as I would enjoy an Egyptian setting.

[Relientk77]

If the next Assassins Creed game is in Egypt, I am totally getting it.

[Ezz2013]

Yeah,i'm with you
i want to know who will assaniate my pharaoh grandfather. :P

[DEEBO]

If assassin's creed white wash Egypt/ Africa like all these movies do then i will be so disappointed.

[Hercules189]

Well nobody truly know what the Egyptians truly looked like, and there's not enough A list actors that fit what they were depicted as. But they were mostly middle eastern with a mix of other Europeans cause it was an extremely popular destination.

[DEEBO]

1St you say nobody really knows then you say they are middle eastern?

What does science tells us?

It's hard for me to trust anything men say cause most lie and change history and just cause some people live in egypt doesn't mean they where from there.

[XabiDaChosenOne]

"Well nobody truly know what the Egyptians truly looked like"
"But they were mostly middle eastern with a mix of other Europeans"
:-/...
Plenty of eyewitness evidence from historians of that time that provide physical descriptions of the Egyptians. (which is the Greek term for the state, it was referred to as Kemet by the natives)
@DEEBO
I have a strong feeling they will unfortunately.

[Carlogambino]

Lol smh, you guys need to stop this shit. The real Egyptians were black sorry to burst your bubble. Arabs invaded and raped the women that's why they look and live there now. Statues show it, paintings show it, just stop. they were black get over it

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Greeks referred to them as Black. Their paintings show a brown to dark brown complexion. Before their noses were defaced on a plethora of statues depicted them as having wider noses. This is in contrast to the modern Egyptians who are more fair skin, perhaps descents of the Arabic people's who counquered Egypt after the fall of Egypts great dynastys.

I hope Ubisoft doesn't the right thing but I'm not very hopeful.

[Mkai28]

Indeed, it was said that the nose of the statues were shot off by Napoleon and his army because of the black features.. He refused to believe that Africans had an advanced civilization. Even the walls show dark skinned ppl on them. Women with dread locks in their hair, what race has locks?

If you prove that the Egyptians were of African descent, this opens doors to a lot of other things.. Here is something to think about, the people in the bible. Hebrews such as Joseph,and Moses. How could they be mistaken for being Egyptian?

@Carligambino, yep African Arab slave trade.

[sandMan123]

There were 4 diffrents kind of people in anciant egypt
Nubians-which were slaves in the start and then rose for couple of years
Libyans- which were the great fathers of the north africans
Hyksos/jews- immigrents in egypt
the originals- were brown, olivish so not black but certainly not white with green eyes.
for preference egypt is middle east and north africa, just look at Marocons there not black aswell the Algerians so they were probably brownish, olivish and there were whites and black aswell so there you go mate

[sullynathan]

It's obviously prince of Persia. It even says POP in the picture.

[DarkOcelet]

Well, you do realize that the first Assassins Creed was suppose to be the next installment in Prince Of Persia but they scrapped that.

So i would be surprised if this became Assassins Creed Empire after it was a Prince Of Persia game.

[AlphaCentyros]

wouldn't* ;)

[Lennoxb63]

I believe that the next AC game will take place in either Egypt or India. They leak a lot of info about India in the Jack the Ripper DLC about Indian assassins and their tactics of assassination.

[phantomexe]

I was thinking that back when the comic came out. They said when i got Assasins creed Brahman that it woud hint at a future ac game. mister green i think his name was from syndicate was the sort of helper or appintence of the assassin in it. Great comic guys if you hadnt read it and its cannon so. Funny thing is that comic came out way before that game. like maybe 2013. Dont get me wrong tho id love to see it in egypt and more about what DarkOcelet has to say. To scale a pyremid (that dont look spelled right)

[GranTurismoFan]

Egypt is cool but i'd still prefer Japan :)

[DragonDDark]

Japan would be cool. Same with China.

[TeamLeaptrade]

Assassin's Creed in Egypt sounds like fun to me.

[Ruggadagod]

The really need to calm down with these Assassin's creed games. This is franchise fatigue in it's purest form.

[DragonKnight]

If you don't want it, don't play it. Others are still fans of the series and aren't fatigued so please speak only for yourself.

[BillytheBarbarian]

Agreed. I still have 3 Asscreeds on the hdd I haven't touched yet. It's overwhelming.

[Meltic]

Look the male npc's. All looks same in the face and they wont change that... you can clearly see that the level of detail and characters is done. Its only optimising and some graphic stuff to fix.

[Wallow]

Does anyone else sometimes feel like a show, movie, book or game somehow "Stole" you idea. Impossible of course but I swear the male protagonist looks like something out of my head. On another note it hopefully looks like Ubisoft is finally changing its formula a little.

[NotanotherReboot]

This is the first one I'll be getting since Black flag.

[SatanicEyeJesus]

Damn, I was hoping for a AC in Japan :/

[XabiDaChosenOne]

I'm going to repeat what I said in the last article. Ubisoft better keep the historical accuracy as far as physical features such as skin color an hair or else their is going to be a problem.

[Khaotic]

Yeah cause people play video games for their historical accuracy of physical features. Dude whatever

[XabiDaChosenOne]

Its called showing respect to the people of that time and their descendants. Of course you wouldn't see he issue because George Washington is never portrayed as an Asian or Latino or African and the Knights Templar is never portrayed with Hindu, or Buddhist symbolism on their chest. This is a series based on historical events with a spin. Why would Ubisoft not bother to make every aspect of the game as authentic as possible so that it is more immersive? People complain about the most insignificant of inaccuracies in games yet features of the men and women of that time is irrelevant? Why? Ubisoft better get it down pact.

[phantomexe]

They try and i remember reading about how much time they spent trying to age the roman colseim(i cant spell that) in brotherhood and trying to get things right in new york and boston in AC3 useing old english texts that were done way back. I really do beleave they try. I love anything AC so i'll read what they do before picking a location. There only so much you can do. I didnt want to play unity listening to french people talk and i'm forced to read text. I dont understand why people want japanese voice overs for games like tales and other jrpgs but each to there own i guess. Like i said only so much you can do. Good thing is eygpt historions know the stuff and the know the world loves reading about finds and digs. Its safe bet ubisoft will go there to get the info they need. They done it before so cant see that changeing now.

[Carlogambino]

I'm with you on that one.

[DragonKnight]

"Or else there's going to be a problem."

I'm sure Ubisoft is shaking in their boots. Oh no, the professionally offended are, you guessed it, offended again. What ever shall we do?

[XabiDaChosenOne]

What was this comment supposed to accomplish exactly? I'm neither offended nor amused by it, find something relevant to say or bug off.

[Khaotic]

Relevant, how about this. There will be no trouble at all if the the physical details of character models are not exactly historicall accurate, because all there is to go off of are documents that still exist of that age that have some description of people. And thats prob very limited. What is relavant is if this game ships and is polished and playing correctly its going to sell and theres nothing anybody is going to do about it.

[DragonKnight]

What was your threat supposed to accomplish? Do you really think you threatening "trouble" against Ubisoft will even be heard, let alone acknowledged and acted upon. Just exactly what are you going to do if Ubisoft decide to make every character purple with pink polkadots hmmm?

[XabiDaChosenOne]

@Khaotic BS, nobody tolerates white wshing of history anymore. Some social group will take offense and it will be chaos.
@DragonKinght Its an observation off of similar situations, look at the back lash from movies like Exodus: Gods and Kings and Gods of Egypt, if you think Videos Game franchises as big as Assassins Creed will fly under the radar you're foolish.

[Khaotic]

In the end you get to assassinate cleopatra...called it

[Dark-Funeral]

I think the Roman empire will be shown as the Templars not Cleopatra or the Egyptians .......

[Khaotic]

Probably right but it would be cool to be the one to bring about the end of cleopatras rule

[Protagonist]

Assassin's Creed Egypt?

Color me intrigued!

[Carlogambino]

I love AC, always have always will, no other game touches on history mixed with the other shit. Also so are they releasing one this year? Are they rebooting it? What's going on

[thricetold]

Wished they had used Egypt this time around instead of bloody ole england, though I'm fully expecting a completely whitewashed version to appease the purebloods.