Video: Check out the latest developer diary for the Assassins Creed sequel. This time: all about factions and the game economy.
Huh? Economy? In Assassins Creed? It may sound like an odd addition to a game essentially all about the stabbing, the killing, and the free-running on every surface in site, but when you think about it, the decision to add the ability to steal and buy stuff, and to implicate banking into the process, makes a lot of sense when you think about the game's setting.
Venice, as the devs admit, is more or less the birthplace of banking and money trading. It was the Venetians who first gave up trading goods to make money, in preference to trading money to make money. Given that Assassins Creed 2's main character, Ezio is from the upper classes, it makes sense he'd have some connection to the economic power behind many or Europe's thrones.
The other big reveal in this new video is the faction system, which we hope has a bit more depth to it than just doing favours for each faction leader. It would certainly be nice to see the possibility of those factions ending up not liking you, perhaps based on your relations with another faction. Anyway, guessing aside, check out the dev diary for yourself...
Assassins Creed 2 will be released in November this year on all major platforms. Check out the first Dev Diary here.
Issue: 133 | February, 2012