So back off, partisans of both stripes. You may have infected television with your polluted news services, and you may be infecting the Internet with your toxic websites. You've even gotten your mitts on films because you're got enough money to do it. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that when you start to infect my video games with your ideological nonsense, I stop playing those games. I actually like political examinations in my games like what we see in Assassin's Creed. But those games are character and story driven, and the mechanics support an artistic vision, not politics. Proof? Assassin's Creed Unity: they didn't include female multiplayer characters because the multiplayer in that game is embedded in the story. Every individual player's perspective is that they continue to play as Arno Dorian in the multiplayer, so Arno's story doesn't stop when the multiplayer begins. That's uniquely important in the Assassin's Creed franchise which is, as much as anything, an experiment in minimizing ludo-narrative dissonance. Arno suddenly having a sex change would be pretty major dissonance. The Assassin's Creed Unity decision to not include female playable characters was an artistic choice, not a political statement. I completely support Ubisoft's commitment to art, especially in light of the fact that they have had a female Assassin that was a good character, not a box on a political checklist.
