An Assassin’s Creed game set during and after the American Civil War? It apparently existed, according to a fresh report from Game File.
We write ‘existed’ because the project was apparently cancelled last year, and the details are only just starting to drip out of Ubisoft.
More specifically, this would have been the most modern Assassin’s Creed title to date in terms of the series’ overall timeline, taking place as late as the 1870s, when post-war America underwent its Reconstruction period.
Apparently, the game would have featured a black male protagonist — a former slave from the south of the country. The story would see the lead return there to continue his fight against injustice, and there’s even a mention of the Ku Klux Klan.
However, sources say that Ubisoft management deemed the project to be too controversial — or at least, potentially controversial.
It’s claimed that current political tensions in the US influenced the publisher’s decision, as well as the online backlash that sprung up around the reveal of Yasuke — the black protagonist of Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Game File writes that its sources were left “frustrated” with the cancellation, suggesting that Ubisoft had given in to the fear of controversy.
It should be noted that this is pretty much the first we’ve heard of such a project, although previous whispers have claimed that Ubisoft has multiple Assassin’s Creed titles in various stages of development. That includes the all-but announced remake of Black Flag.
What do you make of this? Would you have been interested in an Assassin’s Creed game set after the Civil War? Send Ubisoft a query in the comments section below.
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