Titled Assassin’s Creed Utopia, this mobile game will allow players to build their own ideal colonial city, a utopia if you will. It seems like less of a singular narrative, and more of a world-building experience, where the player takes control of a newly formed colony — essentially before any of the events in Assassin’s Creed 3.
The game will also incorporate some of the futuristic elements of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, namely sinister corporation Abstergo’s involvement with a technology called ‘Utopia’.
Details regarding Utopia thus far are pretty slim, but a partnership between Ubisoft and Gree on the game suggests a larger social slant than gamers might be expecting. Perhaps interacting with other players will populate this ‘utopia’ and allow for greater growth. It does seem, however, that the connections with Assassin’s Creed 3 are only superficial, unless the game allows currency earned in Utopia to be transferred.
Utopia Producer Andreane Meunier promises that the games social elements will not keep it from being a hardcore experience, stressing that the team is trying something different.
On the surface, Assassin’s Creed Utopia doesn’t seem like that much of an Assassin’s Creed experience, but that’s probably because all we’ve been given thus far are surface details. How the creation of this colonial town factors in the war between the Templars and the Assassins is unclear, as is the way the player will be interacting with the world they create, but the promise of more Assassin’s Creed on the go has us intrigued.
What do you think of Assassin’s Creed Utopia, a new mobile experience from Ubisoft and Gree? Will Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation be the mobile game that convinces you to pick up a Vita?
Source: Pocket Gamer
