New Details Emerge about Assassin's Creed: Odyssey from Gamescon

After the cataclysmic failure that was Assassin’s Creed: Unity (which cemented the “we can’t afford to add female models” excuse for a lack of diversity in games), Ubisoft seemed to realize that the “one Assassin’s Creed game a year” model was unsustainable. Following, they dedicated themselves to putting a bit more space between each release and had held to that model admirably enough, which indeed improved the quality of the games.

Which is why it was kind of a disappointment to discover that they were falling back into old habits with Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, which is set to release this October, and a mere year after Assassin’s Creed Origins. But perhaps sensing that this would make people nervous, Ubisoft’s Yves Guillemot has announced at Gamescom that there will not be another Assassin’s Creed game in 2019, but rather, they would spend their time and energy on improving Odyssey.

"When you get [Odyssey] this year, you're going to get in for a couple of years, actually. On Assassin's, we had a game [in 2018] and we have one this year, but we are not going to have a full-fledged Assassin's next year. It's just because the team were working separately, so we have two games now, one year after the other. But next year you're not going to have a fully fledged one."

But that’s not the only Assassin’s Creed news to come out of Gamescom: we also got a new trailer.



I have to admit… it looks good, but it also doesn’t look anything like an Assassins’ Creed game. There wasn’t so much “lithe invader sneaking and killing high-valued targets” as there was “all out bloody war and animal fighting”, so… that’s cool.

In any case, the game will release on October 5, so we don’t have a long wait to see if it’s worth the extra time you’ll get to play it.