Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot revealed on Thursday that the corporate is engaged on remakes of the early Murderer’s Creed video games. He additionally talked in regards to the writer’s plans for the sequence’ future, which embrace a denser however extra diversified recreation lineup.
Are Murderer’s Creed remakes in improvement?
“Firstly,” Guillemot stated in regards to the sequence’ future, “gamers will be enthusiastic about some remakes, which is able to enable us to revisit a few of the video games we’ve created previously and modernize them; there are worlds in a few of our older Murderer’s Creed video games which can be nonetheless extraordinarily wealthy.”
He didn’t explicitly say the remakes are in improvement now or say particularly which video games Ubisoft plans to remake. That stated, a leak in 2023 indicated {that a} Black Flag remake was in improvement at Cranium and Bones studio Ubisoft Singapore. Rumors additionally counsel that an Murderer’s Creed 1 remake is within the works, although Ubisoft has denied that previously. Nonetheless, it’s unclear when both of those tasks is likely to be launched, with the Black Flag remake reportedly beginning improvement final November.
As for brand new video games, Guillemot stated, “The purpose is to have Murderer’s Creed video games come out extra recurrently, however not for it to be the identical expertise yearly.” He gave the instance of the upcoming recreation codenamed Hexe, which he says will likely be very completely different from Murderer’s Creed Shadows. “We’re going to shock individuals, I believe,” the CEO added.
Introduced in 2022, Ubisoft hasn’t stated a lot about Murderer’s Creed Hexe. It reportedly takes place in Sixteenth-century Germany, a time of mass hysteria round supposed witchcraft. Hexe additionally reportedly contains a feminine protagonist named Elsa, who has supernatural powers. Nonetheless, this info comes from uncorroborated leaks.