Once Again, You Can Play as a Woman in Assassin’s Creed

26th Jun 2015

controllerThe times are changing. In response to complaints about the last installment, you will now be able to play as a woman in latest version of Assassin’s Creed. Kotaku reports on this in recent article titled “Sources: You Can Play As A Woman In Assassin's Creed: Syndicate.”

Jason Shreier of Kotaku writes, “Almost a year after publisher Ubisoft made headlines for not including female protagonists in Assassin’s Creed Unity, today we’ve got news that there will be a playable woman assassin in the next entry of Ubisoft’s mega-series, according to two people familiar with the game. This fall’s Assassin’s Creed, which will be officially announced tomorrow as Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, will give players access to two main characters: Jacob and Evie (pictured above in concept art leaked to Kotaku). They’re brother and sister, said a source, and they’ll be heavily involved in the criminal underworld of Victorian London, where the game is set. (We hear it’ll be out this fall for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.) There have been playable female heroes in Assassin’s Creed games before, most prominently in 2012’s Assassin’s Creed: Liberation, which starred an assassin named Aveline and was reissued for consoles last year. Still, Ubisoft ran into backlash last year during E3 after Assassin’s Creed Unity creative director Alex Amancio said in an interview that the dev team cut female assassins from that game’s co-op because they’d require ‘double the animations.’ Amancio’s comments were mocked by those who felt that the couple hundred or so developers working on the average Assassin’s Creed game could surely have managed. A subsequent statement from Ubisoft noted that ‘we recognize the valid concern around diversity in video game narrative,’ and pointed to the diversity—in terms of gender and ethnicity—of past Creed protagonists.”

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