What we want in Assassin’s Creed Victory

I’ve start again playing Assassin’s Creed Unity. It was a while since it’s crapy release so I wanted to see how the game was patched and if it is now working properly. And my answer is simply: Yes. Now when I’m playing Unity I see somewhere deep inside a really good game. Still, it is a worst Assassin’s Creed ever thank’s to storyline, characters and crapy launch. On the other hand - Unity is most graphically impresive game in franchise. I hope Ubisoft will learn from mistakes in Unity and at the Christmas of 2015 they will bring at very good Assassin’s Creed title.

Now, what would I and most of fans expect from Assassin’s Creed Victory? First of all, first screenshots of game was leaked by Kotaku, few weeks after launch of Unity, screenshots as you can see below are showing London in 19. century, during Victorian era in Engalnd.

Year

I love Victorian era, so I’m really looking forward to it. Victorian era in England was from 1837 to 1901. I hope game will take place in late 19. century, somwhere after 1870 or something nearby, because in 1888 there was legendary serial killer called Jack The Ripper, Tower Bridge was in construction from 1886 to 1894, in 1863 was opened first line of London Underground (Metro) system, and first deep-level tube line was opened in 1898. In 1887 was published first book about Sherlock Holmes. Definitely, late 19. Century is most interesting time from Victorian era.

One of leaked screenshots of AC Victory

Present day’s or future

In Unity was almost no present day/future story, it was so badly created cutscenes with no value to Assassin’s Creed lore. I hope that present day or future in Victory will be more like in Black Flag or Rogue, with tons of lore, easter eggs and stuff like that. Story in Present day/Future needs to continue.

Main protagonist?

Arno Victor Dorian was main protagonist in Unity, he was copy paste legendary Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Arno wasn’t true Assassin, he was powered by revenge and also that is reason why Brotherhood fired Arno from Assassins. I hope that main protagonist in Victory will be somebody more like Shay Cormac from Rogue or Haytham Kenway from Assassin’s Creed III/Rogue. Victory needs to have deep well written character, not copy pastes of Ezio. Main character should have been also someboy important, not just Assassin novice like it was in almost every Assassin’s Creed game. Main protagonist should be somebody for example like lord in parliament or son of some lord in parliament.

Unity skills system sucks!

Worst progression system in history of games was in Unity. For Victory, Ubisoft should destroy progression system or completely redo, do it more deep, like in Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs, where was really good progression system. Ubisoft - be creative.

AC Unity skills system

Weapons, character costumization

Weapons and character costumization was pretty good in Unity, I want to se that system in Victory. But, Victory will be set in 19. century London. I think that hooded dude with spear or axe in hand would be odd. And also, why Arno can’t have sword and rifle at once. Fighting with sword and shooting with rifle. In Unity you can have sword or rifle and that sucks. I want really badly to have sword and rifle at once. Other weapons in Unity was great, good variety, from swords to spears, I hope that all of this will be in Victory. Costumization of character, I mean costumization of suit of character should be just changing colors of pieces of armor that you will buy or get as reward from missions.

AC Unity chest armor shop

Combat

Combat is still pretty good, in Unity it was a little bit glitchy but nothing major. Just add some more ways to kill a guy. Where in Unity was double hidden blades for killing two guys at once? Also, air assassinations was working pretty well in Unity

In game purchases, micro-transactions, multiplayer

Why? Why Ubisoft done this to us. In game purchases in game which costs already 60 Euro on Steam. In Singleplayer? This is main reason why I hate Unity so much. I bought 60 Euro game, why should I spend money in singleplayer campaign? It is because they killed multiplayer and replace him with coop. In Victory, I would like to see both: classic Assassin’s Creed multiplayer and coop. And if Ubisoft want’s in game purchases and micro-transactions, put them into multiplayer, not singleplayer or coop.

AC Unity in-game purchases

Open-world design, horses, ships, trains

Open world was always a strong feature of Assassin’s creed franchise. In Unity, thanks to amazing graphics, open world looks great but it is too boring for me. Paris is nice but how about countryside like in AC III or even in AC II. I wanted to leave Paris or Versailles and explore more. Let us in AC Victory leave London and go take a look at countryside, like some small villages nearby of London or even cities like Bristol, Dover, Manchester, even Edinburg would be great. Bring horses back to franchise. I want again to ride horses. Ship battles probably won’t be in Victory but it would be nice to have a small steam boat or something like that on river Thames for faster traveling through London. Also, In Victory will be trains and London Underground. It would be great to take a train ride or metro ride - use it as fast travel system. Also add back to game shops, banks, and properties to buy.

AC Unity graphics are amazing

Story

It is hard to guess story. But I hope that Ubisoft will bring to us something new, fresh, not just story like: "hey, these guys are Templars, you must kill them". I want a deep story with some twists. Go big with story, and dont show only Templars as bad guys, show some bad assassins how it was in AC Rogue.

Side-quests, stuff to do in open world

Side-quests was almost everything you got in Unity because storyline is only 25% of game completion. With quests, be creative, in Unity was good quests these investigations. In Victory it would be great, help police solve murder in somewhere deep inside London. Do it more bigger, just dont look at place with Eagle vission and examine all gold-ish objects. There should be also some reputation meter as it was in Watch Dogs. By helping citizen you would gain reputation and it will ended like gainin bonuses or weapons, sales in shops, citizens becoming Assassins and so on. Then do quests like assassinate target, which there are probably in game because of one leaked screenshot by Kotaku. There should be also coop missions and that coop mission should be more interesting that in Unity. There is much stuff what should be in side-quests, maybe horse chases or even boat chases would be awesome.

Another leaked screenshot of AC Victory.

So, that will be all, I hope you liked this article and please: share this article so more AC fans can read it and hopefully this will read somebody in Ubisoft. Now, I’m looking forward to E3 where we probably see demo or trailer of Assassin’s Creed Victory.

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