A new game would have been set in the USA in the 1860s and 70s.
Ubisoft has reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed sequel that would have been around the time of the American Civil War, with a black protagonist in conflict with the Ku Klux Klan.
Today’s report comes from Game File’s Stephen Totilo, who cites five current and former employees of Ubisoft for the report. According to them, the title would have been set in the reconstruction period that followed the war, with a protagonist who returned to the States’ south to fight injustice, including that spread by the Klan.
According to those same sources, the game was cancelled around July of last year, and for a couple big reasons.
First, Ubisoft was cautious of backlash it had already received over the announcement of Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ historically-inspired black samurai Yasuke. Second, the current political climate of the USA wouldn’t warrant a new title set in the USA around its civil war.
“Too political in a country too unstable, to make it short,” one source said, summarising the situation.
Totilo notes that, “game cancellations are not unusual, sources said, but reasons such as those were.”
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