The Path to Syndicate
While Assassin’s Creed: Rogue and Assassin’s Creed: Unity do a good job of connecting some of the individual past Assassin storylines, they have both been criticized for not doing a lot to advance the present-day story that began with Desmond Miles and the Precursors.
Between these games, we see Abstergo taking interest in something they call the “Phoenix Project,” which is an initiative sequence the genome of the Precursors triple helix DNA by finding past Sages. The Sages have such a high percentage of Precursor DNA that they are able to interact with the Pieces of Eden in more advanced ways than the average human, similar to the descendants of Adam and Eve. It is for this and perhaps even darker reasons, that Abstergo is interested in fully understanding the Precursor genome. But besides this tidbit, we haven’t been given much more info on the Assassin’s Creed present day story and Ubisoft knows it.
In an interview with Gamespot, Marc-Alexis Cote, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate’s creative director was questioned about fan concern regarding the game’s story arc, specifically the events started in Desmond’s timeline, and he replied:
“The Assassin’s Creed series story is still going somewhere, absolutely. The overarching story is divided up into cycles. So we had what we called the Desmond cycle, which ended with AC3. Black Flag was the transition point between the Desmond cycle and the new cycle….
And then we started up the new cycle, which I think will become much clearer with Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, without spoiling it…
I can’t go into details about the present-day story, other than to say it is coming back, it is going to make sense for our players, and they’re going to understand the conflict between the Assassins and the Templars…
One of the things that’s been super important for me and for the team is to make sure the player feels in the present-day story that he or she has importance.”
So while the present day-story has been admittedly gone for a while, we have a guarantee that in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate we can expect a major comeback.
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