MONTREAL, CANADA — Ubisoft has already begun teasing the next installment of the popular Assassin’s Creed franchise, unexpectedly announcing it will be set in modern-day Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
“Assassin’s Creed has taken gamers to historical eras all across the globe– the Italian Renaissance, Victorian London, ancient Egypt, and more,” said a public representative for Ubisoft. “With this new Assassin’s Creed, we decided to do something a little different.
“At first we were gonna do New York, but every other open-world game is set in New York. We thought; ‘Why not do something unexpected?’ So we just threw a dart at a map and went with where it landed.”
This comes as a departure for the Assassin’s Creed series, with previous entries involving a character in the modern-day reliving the genetic memories of their ancestor through a machine called the Animus.
When asked how this would be implemented into the new game, the Ubisoft rep dismissively waved his hand.
“We did away with all that boring time travel stuff,” said the Ubisoft rep. “We were like; ‘Let’s just get to the stabbing!’ So that’s what we did. What we are really focused on is the world. That world being right smack dab in the middle of Tennessee.
“We want gamers to feel like they’re really an elite assassin of the Order of Assassins running around the iconic suburbs of Murfreesboro, climbing over everything and murdering people. They’re gonna love it.”
One of our Hard Drive writers actually reached out to his cousin, who happens to live in Murfreesboro, for comment.
“I mean, I can’t really say I’m that excited about it,” said Olivia Emerson, 22, local resident of Murfreesboro. “I mean, I love the Assassin’s Creed games, but I don’t need to pay $70 to run around Murfreesboro. I can do that on my own.
“Plus, there’s not a lot of tall buildings to climb or jump off of. Where will they put the carts full of hay? Besides, Nashville is like right there. Why don’t they do Nashville?”
When we called the Ubisoft rep and asked why not Nashville, the rep simply told us about the planned $200 Collector’s Edition, which includes in the packaging a miniature Rutherford County Courthouse Statue, before hanging up the phone.
The Hard Drive will keep an eye out for more updates regarding the new game allegedly in development under the working title Assassin’s Creed: ‘Boro.
