The “Assassin’s Creed” game franchise has tackled various major events and time periods in history, but it turns out there’s one event that’s a little to tricky to do in today’s modern political climate – the American Civil War.
A little over a year ago, a new entry being considered for the franchise was reportedly scrapped and now a new report at Game File has gone into details on that.
They indicate that the new game was to have been set in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s, specifically during the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War.
In the title, gamers would play as an African-American man who had been formerly enslaved in the South and moved west to start a new life. Recruited by the Assassins, he returns to the South to fight for justice, along with confronting the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan.
The report cites five current and former Ubisoft employees who spoke to the outlet on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to speak about the project.
So why was it cancelled? Several of these sources indicate management in Paris stopped development of the game mainly due to two reasons – the online backlash surrounding the Black samurai protagonist character Yasuke in “Assassin’s Creed Shadows,” and the increasingly tense political climate in the United States with one source saying it wa simply “too political in a country too unstable”.
The franchise has tackled U.S. settings before, most notably “Assassin’s Creed III” which was set during the Revolutionary War.
