Female Assassins in Assassin’s Creed Unity

Patrice Desilets, former Assassin’s Creed game designer quite firmly believes that Ubisoft should have invested the time and effort to give players the choice to play as a woman in Assassin’s Creed Unity, an aspect that Ubisoft opted out of due to “the reality of production.” At E3 this week, Unity creative director Alex Amancio told why the cooperative multiplayer game features four versions of protagonist Arno and why the developer excluded the option to play as a female assassin. “It’s double the animations, it’s double the voices, all that stuff and double the visual assets,” Amancio said. “Especially because we have customizable assassins. It was really a lot of extra production work.” Desilets in an interview told Polygon th...