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Watch Dogs: latest trailer has hidden Assassin’s Creed & Far Cry easter eggs
The folks behind our favorite games love hiding little Easter eggs in their titles, and apparentlyWatch_Dogs‘ developers do as well, as showcased in the lovely character trailer released yesterday. If you check out the frame showcased above, you’ll see that T-Bone has quite a few games on his desk. Of course the only two that are recognizable are Assassin’s Creed II (which is still my personal favorite of the series, incidentally) and Far Cry 3. As a funny note, they appear to be pirated copies, as can be easily noticed by the fact that they’re portrayed in normal CD cases and not in the DVD cases games are usually sold into. Bad, bad T-Bone… After all, we’re talking about hackers, so that’s not really surprising. Later Animation Director Colin Graham just told me that those are actually l...
Assassin’s Creed series might never take place in present day
Following the release of their tribute to the pirate life, a handful of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag developers took to Reddit and addressed a few burning questions from fans. They avoided addressing where Ubisoft would take the series post-Black Flag, but that didn’t stop them from sharing where they thought the series wasn’t going. Lead Writer Darby McDevitt had a hard time believing Ubisoft would set an entire AC game in the present. “I doubt we would do a modern day AC,” he writes. “There are just too many mechanics we would have to develop to make it believable… vehicles, plausible modern cities, a huge array of ranged weapons, etc. The modern day will most likely remain as a ‘context’ for all future games, something to tie them all together.” McDevitt also ...
Assassin’s Creed 4 trailer highlights next-gen features
At last, a new trailer gives a close-up look at all the fancy tech and effects in the open-world murder simulator’s posh versions, for people who like gawping at render passes. The list of pretty includes dynamic foliage, rolling seas and extra-pretty shallow waters, a weather system with oodles of rain particles and shiny dynamic rippling wetness, and global illumination. All versions have similar effects of course, and some like the dynamic navmesh for boarding ships are downright crucial, but they’re all next-gen on next-gen systems, see. AC4 comes to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U on October 29, then Xbox One and PS4. News Source: Shacknews