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Ubisoft: "It Wouldn't Be Surprising To See A Female Assassin Coming Up In A Mainline Assassin's Creed"

Posted on Monday, March 4 @ 09:35:47 Eastern by Alex_Osborn


So Assassin's Creed IV has been announced (check out our preview here), and surprise, surprise, another male protagonist is the star of the show. 

When asked by IGN why all of the main characters in Assassin's Creed are men (sorry, but Liberation doesn't count), Black Flag director, Ashraf Ismail, explained:

Really early on, we decided to tell the story of the Kenways. So we already had in place the idea to tell Edward, Haytham, and Connor. This was actually years ago, we had this, [so] we actually never thought, 'could this be a woman?'

From the pirate perspective, there were a few famous women pirates. But it wasn't common. So we didn't want that element to be a detail people got stuck on.

But that doesn't mean we won't see a female lead sometime in the future. "I would say it wouldn't be surprising to see a female assassin coming up in a mainline Assassin's Creed," he added. "But for us, for AC4, it was always Edward."

Would you like to see a female protagonist in the inevitable Assassin's Creed V? Let us know in the comments below.



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  • Keri_Honea
    Keri_Honea

    Joined: Dec 2011
    Posted: Mar 4th, 2013 at 9:59 am
    Remember when Ubisoft literally laughed at the suggestion of a female assassin as a lead character? Then suddenly it was so in their Vita game, and now they say this. Back-pedaling, much?
  • UghRochester
    UghRochester

    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Mar 4th, 2013 at 11:57 am
    I'm sure it will happen eventually. I feel Activision will start adding female characters to the crowd.
  • UghRochester
    UghRochester

    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Mar 4th, 2013 at 11:58 am
    *Activision adding females to CoD, by the way.
  • Axelownz
    Axelownz

    Joined: Apr 2011
    Posted: Mar 4th, 2013 at 2:04 pm
    I think there was something about women being considered bad luck back on pirate ships back in the day, or maybe that was just something made up in a POTC movie or something i don't remember.

    Anyway a female Assassin would be cool, but i would just rather have them focus on a good character and not worry about gender. Aveline was alright, a bit boring, but i liked her well enough. I kind of liked she was able to seduce some of her targets or sweet talk them with her Southern Belle outfit. That was pretty cool.

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