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I think this is literally the coolest premise you could have for an AC game that could be published in America, or at least that you used to be able to but evidently not anymore if you're a big studio.
I'm trying to think of others. Apartheid South Africa could maybe be published, probably not Palestine for some time now. Maybe Ethiopia or Algeria. A Black Panther assassin would obviously be interesting but I think that would be too much. Probably the same goes for representing the IRA. Maybe the Mexican Revolution?
assassin's creed gameplay really stops working when repeating firearms are competent so there's a hard date limit on it and reconstruction is pushing up on that with revolvers and lever guns.
That's an interesting point, though honestly I don't think it's that different from Hitman or really even Arkham, fundamentally, not that you can't draw distinctions between them. I think guns would just be a design consideration and not a hard limit, plus they already have some stuff in WWI, don't they?
firearms are loud, so if they've embraced more hitman vibes (plan your shit, don't fight 50 guards) with climbing into hotels and stuff, it could still sort of work. basically introduce thief mechanics with stealth, only with wall climbing and garottes.
they already massively changed gameplay once, i guess they could do it a second time if they think they've exhausted history
it would be absolutely hilarious to make an AC game that climaxed with killing JFK and getting away with it
Why didnt Lee Harvey Oswald use his wrist blades?
No bales of hay to jump into.
I'd like a return to middle ages and early modern with the Hussite Rebellion or German Peasants War
You are right, I was being too small-minded. I think the Ikko-Ikki uprising could also be cool, though it presents too much opportunity to lib out, and also they just did Japan.
Taiping Rebellion in China too would be pretty wild.