While the tag of Ubisoft’s greatest ever gaming franchise could easily be awarded to the Assassin’s Creed series, the company feels a lot more will be achieved with the release of Watch Dogs, so much so that it could even surpass and inspire the Creed franchise.
Recently, Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag designer Jean-Sebastien Decant was in an interview with GameReactor, where he talked about Watch Dogs and its next generation features.
“Watch Dogs is kind of showing us the path for the future. Absolutely. But we have to create a... We have to respect our brands. So if we have to go that way with Assassin's Creed we have to think about how it could fit into Assassin's Creed," Decant stated.
“I think we're going toward a gaming place where the open world will be shared with other players. More and more. Socially speaking, but also maybe multiplayer stuff. And we will have to consider the open world much more like a platform that we could sustain for years," he added.
As far as the release of Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag on the next gen is concerned, Decant stated: “When you start and you don't even know the specs or what they are going to do you don't think about that [next-gen consoles] or you're going to be sick.”
“We thought about next-gen graphics and in order to explore that we used the high-end PCs on the side, and then we continued just what we started with the previous games and build upon that. I think next next-gen is going to be for the next games. The next games are going to be much more on the next-gen side. This one is really on the edge."
Additionally, speaking about the core features of Assassin’s Creed, like stealth, movement, and more, Decant explained that the “core pillars are still social stealth being able to blend into the crowd and finding a way to reach your target without being seen.”
“We will try and work and build upon them. We cannot tell you that we're happy and this is how we want the game to be and we're going to do ten more games with exactly that same gameplay. No, we are unhappy. We want to do more. There are lots of things we want to refine on the combat side, on the parkour, on the stealth,” he added.
Watch Dogs is currently scheduled for launches on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, and PC in early 2014.
