Assassin's Creed: Invictus is Ubisoft's Next Approach to Multiplayer
Ubisoft is working on Assassin's Creed: Invictus, a standalone multiplayer game set in the universe of the hooded assassins. It is to be closely related to the AC: Infinity platform.
Mirage, Jade, Red, Hexe - quite a lot of these new "Assassins" on the horizon, right? And that's not all, because we also have Assassin's Creed: Infinity - a kind of platform (launcher), which is to become the "heart" of this bestselling series from Ubisoft. However, it turns out that this is still not all - Marc-Alexis Côté, one of the executive producers of the series, revealed in an interview with VGC, that a standalone multiplayer game is also being developed, known under the code name Assassin's Creed: Invictus.
Online Assassin's Creed in the pipeline
The project is being handled by people who previously worked on online modules in For Honor and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege. Côté said Ubisoft wants to use their knowledge and experience to develop the Assassin's Creed franchise.
"[...] I feel Assassin’s Creed can branch into different channels. We’ve only scratched the surface of what we can do with the Animus with Assassin’s Creed. We’ve had multiplayer in the past but that was not super accessible [to the players - ed. note]."
Another attempt
Now Ubisoft is considering how the concept can be developed into something that will have a better chance of breaking through. It is worth recalling here that a not very extensive and rather uninteresting multiplayer mode has already appeared in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. Later it found its way (in various forms) to most installments of the series - until AC: Unity, where we saw unsuccessful attempts to make it into something more. In subsequent games in the series, Ubisoft abandoned the idea completely, only to return to it now.
Single player still a priority
This does not mean, of course, that the French company will abandon single-player games. On the contrary. Côté assured that AC: Red and AC: Hexe represent some of Ubisoft's biggest investments in the single player format. What's more, during the Ubisoft Forward show, he mentioned that the standalone multiplayer game in question will be closely related to the Assassin's Creed: Infinity platform.
200 million "Assassins"
What the mysterious Invictus project will turn out to be, we will probably find out only in a few years. One thing is certain - the fifteenth anniversary of the series, which Ubisoft is celebrating this year, does not herald its end. The popularity of the series is reflected in the numbers, as noted by Derek Strickland of the website TweakTown, in a recent financial report, the French reported that starting in 2007, all AC games have sold a total of more than 200 million copies (see screenshot above).
