Modern Day Assassin's Creed: Can it Be Done?

[Ocelot GT]

A modern assassins creed?


Uh... you mean... Hitman? :3

Hitman as a free-roam game would be interesting.

 

[Tears of Blood]

Leap of faith off of an exploding building...boring? Blasphemy
Let me put it this way. If they make a modern AC and it is more about gunplay(because of the precident) over stealth, I won't buy it or even play it. Hiding so you can take someone out hand to hand would just be more appealing to me. It doesn't have to be as sedated and slow in it's approach to stealth like MGS was, I just don't want to spend the entire damn game in a shoot out. I have enough TPS and FPS, thank you.

Onto what? Concrete? <.<; Hay bales hardly exist in modern society. I suppose there'll bee a nice conveneint stack of matresses whenever you perform a Leap of Faith? Blah.

Anyway, you wouldn't spend the whole game in a shootout, just the parts where you're, y'know, killing lots of people. Which, in AC1 and AC2 is only so often.

Also, the Templars know exactly what Desmond looks like, most likely. Furthermore, they also probably know about the outfit that Altair and Ezio have worn. I don't know how it's gonna' work, man.

I have a feeling that it's going to go on a path where there's going to be little to no guns. I just feel it in my bones. There'll be some plot device where guns aren't going to be practical or something, and we'll have to use melee weaponry. If it weren't the case, ACII would basically have no point.

Spoiler

Since it's all about training Desmond to use Ezio's abilities. I suppose the free-running would be important and such, but still... Blah!

On a side note, I wanna' go to Tokyo in the modern one.

Tell me it wouldn't be fun to climb around in there. I dare you.

 

[inglioti]

having it set in modern times would ruin what makes assassin's creed unique. we already have modern day assassin games, and it wouldn't be plausible without all the high tech gadgetry of splinter cell etc.

what made assassins creed good, imo, was that it was set in times people don't spend much time with. i love renaissance history. when my friend got it and played it last night, and i climbed up the duomo and jumped off the top, where i had been only eighteen months ago, i freaked out it was so awesome.

 

[Tears of Blood]

*Snip*

1.) I agree, sort of. Some sort of plot device could be used, similar to MGS4, perhaps...

2.) See above.

3.)I did. and, I dunno'. Prolly not.

4.) I, personally, will rule this out simply because all of the characters we have played as so far have had Desmond's face. Furthermore, do you ever remember seeing a female assassin in either AC1 or AC2?

having it set in modern times would ruin what makes assassin's creed unique. we already have modern day assassin games, and it wouldn't be plausible without all the high tech gadgetry of splinter cell etc.

what made assassins creed good, imo, was that it was set in times people don't spend much time with. i love renaissance history. when my friend got it and played it last night, and i climbed up the duomo and jumped off the top, where i had been only eighteen months ago, i freaked out it was so awesome.

We gotta' have one eventually, though. How else will the story come to an end?

 

[Tears of Blood]

this times 10.

No. I think not. Definitely not.

Hitman, MGS, Splinter Cell... All of these games are completely different Assassin's Creed in so many ways... It'd be terrible.

 

[Tears of Blood]

You could easily do AC:Modern Day without using the high tech bullshit in Splinter Cell - you think that there aren't assassinations going on without much in the way of technology? Pah. You could set it a little in the future in the middle of a Max Payne/A Scanner Darkly drug epidemic where the Templars are seeking order by using drugs (which are slowly wearing off - hence search for the mystical goblet things) to control populations. This could have gone wrong or w/e and you now have to take down a bunch of drug kingpins or whatever. So easy to think a way around needing too much bs tech.

I like the idea of tech. Not too much tech, but maybe some NVG, some other cool stuff, maybe...

But, when did I say it needed such things? D:

Anyway, I dunno'.

If you think about the first game (I haven't played the second one yet - I want it on PC), you would have to say that none of the dominant powers would think of the assassins as good guys. They go around killing what they decide are unsavoury characters running much larger and more powerful countries/cities/organisations. Most people at the time would have seen them as terrorists (or not seen them at all if they did their job right). Would hardly make sense to take away this subservise element of the plot, would it?

I am sure you could do something like that, I just meant we don't need to get into the whole battlefield thing. Reminds me of MGS4.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Mirror's Edge wasn't so bad. Cut and paste the AC combat mechanics and voilà.

 

[Fritzvalt]

I could definately see a WW1 or 2 game. Maybe even one in Russia during the Bolsheivik revolution. Also, maybe one during the cold war. I think there's alot of stuff to take from before we do a present day one. Also, there may be guns in the world, but that doesn't mean that the main character is good with or likes guns.

 

[WindScar]

I think it would work with silenced weapons, such as Hidden blade, throwing knives and now, if we start as Desmund, Guns (with silencers) to go from here would be more or less like forcing us to think more, blend more and sneak more.

We would have to pick our battles due to the fact that if we run into a place that is not FULL of people, we get shot down. Using Parkour and running into crowds to prevent the "Guards (Police, Militia, anything?)" from killing civillians, this might work, no?

 

[Fritzvalt]

Russian revolution! That's an AWESOME idea. You could play any of the warring factions, or an independent one who ends up deciding in favour of the Reds!

I could definately see a WW1 or 2 game. Maybe even one in Russia during the Bolsheivik revolution. Also, maybe one during the cold war. I think there's alot of stuff to take from before we do a present day one. Also, there may be guns in the world, but that doesn't mean that the main character is good with or likes guns.

Yeah right. An assassin who likes to use outdated weapons because he likes getting killed, I suppose? Maybe next we could get a modern day RTS where you play a general who prefers musketeers to helicopters and cannons to tanks...

Eh, it's not the best idea in the world, but, if they countinue to keep with the "Social Camo," motif a knife in the back's a lot quieter than a shot in the head. Furthermore, if Desmond is being trained via the bleeding affect from his ancestors, then it's pretty logical that if their shite with a gun, than he to shall be shite.

 

[shifty89]

i smiled when i saw the link to equilibrium, i love that film, OT i would like to see it with guns, but only if they were done properly and in context