PS3 First Assassin's Creed 2 info

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They might as well officially announce it now.

Prince of Persia animation director David Wilkinson seems to have slipped the first information on Assassin's Creed 2... which hasn't even been officially announced yet.

Speaking in a very frank interview with AusGamers, Wilkinson was quizzed on the current status of Assassin's animation guru Alex Drouin.

"He's busy making Altair even more beautiful," Wilkinson revealed. "Last thing I saw him do was getting Altair to swim."

So it looks like Altair will be assassinating bad men from the watery deep - and if we know Ubisoft, probably reaching up and dragging guards into the drink with him as well.

Ubisoft hasn't said much of a second game, apart from making it clear that Assassin's Creed is "a franchise". So there will be more games.

The conclusion to the original also heavily hints at plot points for a follow-up. Read the Assassin's Creed Ending Explained feature for more...

 

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Assassin's Creed 2 confirmed

39 CommentsUbisoft has made first official mention of the totally-unexpected sequel to last year's Assassin's Creed.

Speaking during its first-half fiscal 2008-09 conference call, a company exec confirmed that it's "working hard on the product," but wouldn't commit to a fiscal 2010 release date (i.e. next year) - although from what we've heard it's incredibly likely.

That's about it on the official side, but susperstar analyst Michael Pachter seems to have dropped more juicy details on Assassins 2, which he says has changed time frame from 1191 to "several hundred years in the future", specifically, "sometime in the 1700s."

Pachter went on to speculate that the French Revolution could be a potential setting for the sequel, which is infinitely more compelling to us than just more Jerusalem.

You may also remember that the Prince of Persia team let slip that Altair will be swimming in the next game.

What'll be interesting though is how Ubisoft manages Altair in the 1700s (if that is indeed where the sequel's taking place). Are we going to get a new assassin? A different descendent with the same name and clothes, ala Zelda? It'd be a shot in the foot for the company to waste the character it's spent so long establishing.