New Assassin's Creed Next Year, Will Have Multiplayer

Ubisoft has announced that the next stand-alone Assassin's Creed title will come out next year, and it will be the first in the series to come with an online multiplayer mode. The company also said it will be "shoring up its focus on competitive AAA core titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3" in the coming year, making mention of upcoming releases for the Tom Clancy game series and a new Prince of Persia title.

No PC version?

[IBBoard]

Not that I've got round to playing the first version yet, but are they not going to mention the PC version again? Assassin's Creed 2 has been on the gaming shows already for XBox and PS3, but the PC version (the proper version for a proper machine) won't be out until late February in North American and "2010" in the rest of the world.

Surely they are developing on PCs, and the XBox is a cut-down PC, so they should be able to release it at the same time (and it should be better, since PCs can do more than XBoxes).

Re:No PC version?

[marmoset]

Game corporation in "focusing on platforms where they make money" shocker.

Re:No PC version?

[sopssa]

I guess its more like some kind of licensing deal with Microsoft and Sony. The first game was also released exactly the same way, 2-3 months later on PC (and leaked on the internet months before it was available in stores). Same stupid thing like with GTA series, which really sucks, but I would think they do the same thing with the third version again.

Re:No PC version?

[BeardsmoreA]

Or to look at it another way, an XBox is a tightly specified closed platform and so waaaaaay easier to do proper robust testing on than the plethora of possible hardware combinations in the generic PC market.

Re:No PC version?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think its about piracy. If they release all versions at the same times, people will pirate it for their pc rather than buying it for their console. By staggering the releases, impatient gamers have to pay for the game. Sure, you can pirate console games if you mod your console, but that's usually too much of a hassle for the aforementioned impatient gamers.

There's still money to be made from honest PC gamers, so the game eventually gets a PC release, and this way the pirates who will buy the game if they can't download have to pay.

Multiplayer? Oh, shit.

[Lilith's Heart-shape]

Looks like the single-player campaign in Assassin's Creed III is going to suck.

Re:Multiplayer? Oh, shit.

[Cornelius the Great]

The addition of multiplayer in Uncharted 2 didn't seem to hinder single player quality.

Re:fuck that

[greyline]

Assassin's Creed is not what I would call a stealth game.

Re:Multiplayer? Oh, shit.

[Yamata no Orochi]

Classic example of -1 Disagree.

Dipshit mods.

Re:Multiplayer? Oh, shit.

[tlhIngan]

A single exception doesn't disprove the rule. Generally, for a game that implements both single player and multiplayer, one or the other of the experiences is going to be lacking.

Personally, I've seen way too many multiplayer games lately. Sometimes I just want to come home, plop down on my couche, and play by my self. I'm glad at least Dragon Age is seeming to stick to it's single-player mission.

Another complaint is the lack of bots for multiplayer. After finishing the single-player mission, I also want to plop on the couch and play single-player, but want to just play some bots instead of having to do the whole matchmaking thing. Sometimes I just feel I need to sit down and kill/blast something. Especially since I'm not that great a player and want to do a quick few minutes before getting on with life.

Or I have a friend over and we'd like to have someone to challenge with.