Recent rumor suggest that Ubisoft is following Activision's path to make its highly successful Assassin Creed an annual franchise and they did it with the announcement of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood that will release on November 16 a year after Assassin's Creed 2.
However, Ubisoft Montreal's Jean-Francois Boivin might have a different perspective. He said that Assassin's Creed might skip year 2011 as he thinks the franchise need a breather.
"Honestly, I think for the benefit of everybody -- and business can come back and override everything I say because at the end of the day it's about selling games -- I believe that this license needs a breather," Boivin explained. "You can't plough a field every year. Once every three years -- or once every something -- you have to let it breathe. You have to let the minerals back in. I think it's the same thing with any license, really."
"We can see a lot of the music games that are releasing year after year -- the interest is a lot less than it used to be," Boivin said. "The excitement is a lot less than it used to be. You want to keep people excited. You gotta make people miss it a bit."
I think this is the right way a franchise should be. Just as the economics law of diminishing return, you'll feel less and less satisfaction the more you experienced it. Sure, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood might be a very good game after just a year of development, but it will be even better game if it gets more time.
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this guy talks sense. I hate these "instant" sequels. A sequel needs just as much time as the first game. These instant sequels range between "more of the same", and "small improvements". Both of them are bad. I hated what happened to Bioshock 2.
ReplyDeleteAs of AC, I liked the first one, but didn't like the second one much. The first one was much more "assassin"-like. the second one IMO is just your ordinary casual game. (I haven't played it though, som I'm just guessing, but I liked Altair much better that the guy in AC2)
So yeah, I also think Assassin's Creed needs more time for a good sequel.
Then you'll be relieved that Brotherhood ends Ezio story saga. New character next, or maybe back to altair?
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