Report: Next major Assassin's Creed set in Egypt, coming 2017
海外媒体透露《刺客教条》大型新作以「古埃及」作为舞台 推迟至 2017 年上市
根据海外媒体 Kotaku 的报导,《刺客教条》目前以每年度发行一款新作为步调,不过下一款《刺客教条》大型新作将会跳过 2016 年推迟至 2017 年后半发行,并且将会推出代号称为「Empire」,以「古埃及」作为舞台的全新外传作品。
同时 Kotaku 也指称,取消 2016 年的发行计划主因在于《刺客教条:大革命》在销售和评价上皆未受到玩家全面的肯定,未来将针对游戏开发面上做出进一步的增强和改善,对于这 2 年内以紧凑步调推出《刺客教条》游戏所造成的系列疲乏,来摸索出新的方向和可能性。
而根据 IGN 询问 Ubisoft 官方获得的响应,Ubisoft 表示「他们无法针对这些传闻或猜测作出任何评论,不过他们感谢玩家对于游戏的期待。 近期,他们也释出了《刺客教条》电影的最新剧照,希望可以响应玩家对于系列最新动向的期待。 」另外,2016 年内 Ubisoft 也确定会推出《刺客教条》电影以及另外两款横向动作卷轴游戏。
最后Kotaku还透露由于2016年没有《刺客教条》新大作,因此育碧打算用《看门狗2》弥补缺乏大作的影响。据传《看门狗2》将设定在美国旧金山。

Sources: Next Big Assassin's Creed Set In Egypt, Skipping 2016 As Part of Possible Series Slowdown
Every fall for the past six years, Ubisoft has released at least one big new Assassin’s Creed game. This year, the mega-publisher could be breaking tradition, skipping fall for the first time since 2009, according to a number of sources speaking both to Kotaku and others.
The next Assassin’s Creed, which we believe is set in ancient Egypt and code-named Empire, won’t launch until 2017, according to both a new online rumor and sources speaking to Kotaku. One person familiar with Ubisoft’s upcoming gaming plans told me this afternoon that the decision to delay Empire from fall 2016 was made after 2014’s disappointing Unity, and that this bump will allow the development team more room to improve and polish the game. The source said this biennial approach could be a new trend for Assassin’s Creed, which has suffered from franchise fatigue in recent years.
Rumors about Empire originated this morning on the 4chan boards, of all places, where an anonymous poster claiming to be a developer at Ubisoft wrote that Assassin’s Creed would be skipping this year and that 2017’s big game would be set in Egypt. Although I haven’t been able to confirm the veracity of this 4chan poster - whose posts are compiled on NeoGAF here - everything he wrote matches up with what I’ve heard independently for months.
I’d heard last year from three different people familiar with goings-on at Ubisoft that the next big Assassin’s Creed would be set in ancient Egypt. Since this morning, two other independent sources have contacted me to corroborate that. I heard about the code name Empire from two of those sources. Three of them told me the game would indeed launch in 2017. Months ago, one source told me the game would also take place in ancient Rome, although that may have changed; the 4chan poster says some sections had been removed from the game. (“There are talks about making a trilogy of this same character, so they might explore Greece/Rome next,” the poster wrote.)
A possible Ubisoft substitution for this fall’s big Assassin’s Creed could be Watch Dogs 2, which we hear will be out later this year and set in San Francisco.
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