Assassin’s Creed Origins, for all its historic leanings, might have a touch of punk to it.
Kotaku has posted a brief interview clip with Alain Mercieca, lead author of the brand new Assassin’s Creed, who was employed after the cinematic director (who he had beforehand labored with in one other capability) noticed one of many performs he had written, ‘Squeegee Nights’.
Mercieca remembers being instructed “I want to bring that edge, that spice you guys have, to video games.”
The sport, which is wealthy in stabby action sequences in addition to stealthier moments, is being written with just a few key values in thoughts, Mercieca says, together with humility. His performs have at all times been, not directly, about ‘spirtual quests’, and he needed to do one thing related right here.
Mercieca has labored on performs and movies up to now, however when he was in his early 20s he additionally wrote his personal sport (the interview doesn’t give extra particular particulars on this. Although he says not many individuals within the playwright group knew that he beloved video games, his dad was not stunned by his new job, telling him “of course you write videogames; that’s all you did when you were with me.”
This is a fairly cool have a look at the writing of the sport, and the method of designing a fictional character throughout the context of ‘real’ historical past.
Assassin’s Creed Origins, the primary Assassin’s Creed sport in two years, is out on October 27 for PS4, PC, and Xbox One.
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