US EditionAssassin’s Creed game cancelled due to US ‘political climate’ claims report
- A new Assassin’s Creed game, set in the Reconstruction era and featuring a former slave fighting the Ku Klux Klan, has been canceled due to concerns over the US political climate being 'too unstable.'
- Ubisoft's upper management decided to avoid controversial topics based on potential backlash.
- Sources expressed disappointment, stating that leadership is avoiding risks and maintaining the political 'status quo.'
- Despite past criticism, Ubisoft insists their games are 'not political,' although this perception is often contradicted by their content.
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Ubisoft Cancelled Post-American Civil War 'Assassin's Creed', Felt Story Was "Too Political In A Country Too Unstable"
In the latest case of snowflakism torpedoing a genuinely interesting creative choice, a new report has revealed that while the next Assassin’s Creed game was originally set to tell the story of a freed slave who joins the Brotherhood in the years immediately following the American Civil War, Ubisoft ultimately scrapped these plans in order to avoid the headache of dealing with America’s current obsession with intellectually dishonest pearl-clutc…
Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game set during and after the Civil War.
According to Game File’s Stephen Totilo: > In this Reconstruction-era Assassin’s Creed, gamers would play as a Black man who had been formerly enslaved in the South and moved west to start a new life. Recruited by the series’ Assassins, he would return to the South to fight for justice in a conflict that would, among other things, see him confront the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. [Link: Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Cree…
Ubisoft apparently stopped the development of an Assassin's Creed game to the ra after the U.S. Civil War. The project with a former slave as protagonist was discontinued due to the Yasuke controversy and political tensions in the U.S. (Read more)
Last summer, Ubisoft is said to have discontinued a new Assassin's Creed project due, among other things, to the current political climate in the USA. more
Assassin’s Creed Game Set in U.S. Civil War Shelved Over Politics
Copyright protected content copied from PhoneWorld website. According to an exclusive report by Game File, a well-known gaming news portal, a highly anticipated installment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise has reportedly been shelved due to political concerns. Sources close to Ubisoft revealed that the canceled project was set during the U.S. Civil War era, offering fans a fresh and historically rich setting unlike anything seen before in the s…
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