Assassin's Creed 5 set during the French revolution? Parkour artists unveil new details

Parkour artist Jesse La Flair working on AC5

Assassin’s Creed has been one of the biggest franchise under the development of Ubisoft. The series which started back in 2007, has spanned a continuous spree of seven main exciting action-adventure journeys that have been positively received in the gaming world. The open world stealth game based on a fictional history has sold a profitable amount of 55 million copies uptil now. Considered as the successor of the Prince of Persia series by many, the fifth instalment (AC5) is due to come out sometime in late 2014.

After the success of Black Flag, The game developers have been working on the fifth part with the parkour artists announcing on March 21, that AC5 will be released in two separate versions. The PS4 and Xbox One version will be known as ‘Unity’ while the third generation consoles will bear the ‘comet’ title.

Images were leaked during the development phase which revealed some significant details of the game. The story will be set in Paris with events covering the French Revolution.The protagonist will be a new male assassin who goes by the name of Arno. The screenshots show new “parkour up” and “parkour down” buttons, a new navigation mechanic as noted by Kotaku. Apart from these and a brief launch video, we have nothing much to work upon.

Jesse La Flair who is a famous parkour artist has hinted that the game is wrapping up its important phase. He also posted a picture of himself ‘wall-running’ while working on a “popular video game”. He also posted, “Can you guess what video game I may or may not be working on?” #mocap #verypopulargame” on his Facebook page.

Meanwhile, an official announcement was made which seems to be the only reliable info at this time.

“Qu’ils mangent de la brioche [Let them eat cake]! We have been working on the new Assassin’s Creed for more than three years and although we weren’t quite ready to show you our full vision for a next-gen only AC, it seems Abstergo are trying to force our hand! So here’s a true first look at in-game footage from Assassin’s Creed Unity. Stay tuned – we’ll have many more exciting details for you in the months ahead!”

Here is the ‘Unity’ trailer of the upcoming game.

http://youtu.be/ps5Wcj2KdzE