Yes it is almost official, Ubisoft exposed in its latest community livestream that Future Assassin’s Creed installments will focus more on modern timelines, reported SegmentNext. Darby McDevitt, one of the lead writers on the series, said that there’s plenty of inspiration to be derived from the modern timeline of Brotherhood’s town of Monteriggioni. He also mentioned that the initial plan with Assassin’s Creed: Unity was to include a little more modern day setting. “The thing with Unity was that it was a completely fresh game on a completely fresh generation. So creating any kind of modern day is a pretty huge ask. To create a city, for instance, or even part of a city, would require six months of work by many, many artists, designers, modellers. And then you’d need gameplay systems that ...