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050 Building the Revolution My demo starts at the very beginning of Sequence Two. Following in Black Flag’s drunken footsteps, Unity makes sure you’ve got plenty to do from the get go, and after my first sync point my map is already busy with intriguing icons. Oooh, what are those stairs? Catacombs you say? Paris instantly feels like a theme park with no queues. There is no wilderness here, only mysterious alleys leading from bright avenues, and inviting open windows promising access to previously inaccessible interiors. Want PARIS FEELS LIKE A THEME PARK – ONLY WITHOUT ALL THE QUEUES. to ignore the main mission and head off into the side streets? By all means, ignore the exclamation mark, be Ubi’s guest – but maybe don’t try the grey stuff, we hear it’s not that delicious. “We’ve changed the way that you interact with the world,” explains creative director Alex Amancio. “Before you had maybe a 90% part of the game that was the single-player, and maybe 10% side project. We’ve made that 30% or 40% to 60% or 70%. I’m not saying that the main path of the story is shorter, it’s just everything else is much larger. Traditionally our main motivation was narrative. We figured out that this was actually playing against the concept of the open-world because the main narrative’s goal is to push you forward with urgency. The goal of the sandbox in the world is to have you relax and explore. It’s very difficult to keep doing that when the world is ending.” Yet before I’ve had a chance to even look at my map and decide what to be distracted by first, I’m reminded I’ve got some ‘Sync Points’ Constructing a full-size Paris for a new generation Climb to the top of Notre Dame – excuse me, Quasi – and the view is endless. Paris goes on forever. Well, a really long way. Assassin’s Creed is well and truly back in Europe, and with no secondary locations to attract your hooded attention, Ubi has to make sure you fall in love with the City Of Romance even when the streets run red with Revolutionary blood. “The challenge this time was the fact that we wanted to go to the size of Black Flag or the size of Assassin’s Creed III, but within one city,” explains series historian Maxime Durand. “So where the wildlife and size of Black Flag meant a very vast land, this time it’s going to be very dense. We changed the way we make our buildings. Now we can go higher and you can go inside as well. It’s the biggest city we’ve built.” The research that’s gone into Paris is staggering and, at a 1:1 scale, we’re guessing it didn’t just take a few caffeinated nights on Wikipedia to decide what made it. “The funny thing with Paris is that there’s too much to cover, so the challenge was to decide on what’s important. We revealed 35 landmarks, but there are thousands of landmarks we could have chosen from,” says Durand. “It wasn’t the same kind of challenge as for the American Revolution as most of those buildings were destroyed. Most of the buildings that we had for Unity are still there today, although in a different state.” GARGOYLE PAINTING One building that stands proudly in Paris today is easily the game’s most impressive achievement. Grandly looming over a jostling revolutionary square, Unity’s Notre Dame is an intimidating sight. What’s even more intimidating is the work that went into recreating the Gothic masterpiece. “One person, Caroline, worked on it for 5,000 hours,” says Durand a little too casually. “[For research] …we looked into a lot of detailed archives from the time period, but we also introduced some of the aspects of a more modern Notre Dame. The Revolutionaries were very angry. Bits of it were destroyed back then so, for instance, there was no spire at the time of the Revolution. We still decided to build one because we felt it would add to the style of gameplay, so you can climb up Notre Dame.” Not only is it astonishing to admire from the outside – and a true classic climbing puzzle to unpick – but the Cathedral has a full interior for you to contend with. A setting for an early assassination mission, it’s hard not to be distracted by the sound of the choir that swells as you sneak inside, or the way the light filters beautifully through the round windows. “If you go inside Notre Dame you’ll find there are a lot of paintings,” enthuses Durand. “The ones we have put inside are the real paintings that were there at the time of the French Revolution. A lot of them were destroyed so we don’t know of them today, but those are the kind of details we could find. It’s an example of what we did overall for the game; it’s going into these details that makes it exciting.” Visually, Paris has a uniquely dreamy atmosphere; a design choice made by art director Mohamed Gambouz: “The idea that we started from was that we wanted something really immersive, like real Paris – but at the same time we wanted to add some personality,” he explains. “The analogy I gave the team is that I don’t want something as realistic as a generic tourist photo. Those kinds of photos are obviously very realistic. They’re real life, but don’t necessarily have personality. The realism I pushed for is something in between paintings and professional photography.” So put Paris through Instagram and you’re there… 2010 - JAN ASSASSIN’S CREED II – BATTLE OF FORLI DLC The first of two corrupted memory sequences from Assassin’s Creed II, the Battle of Forli DLC followed Ezio as he aided Caterina Sforza in the defense of the Apple Of Eden. FEB ASSASSIN’S CREED II – BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES DLC Proving that Apples Of Eden cause nothing but trouble, this second DLC saw Ezio saving Florence from the wrath of a power-hungry monk. SEPT ASSASSIN’S CREED: PROJECT LEGACY In this text-based Facebook game players were test subjects for Abstergo, reliving the memories of others via an Animus replacement known as a Data Dump Scanner.
DEV TALK “Paris is built out of what we call house blocks. They’re usually triangular in shape with three corner buildings and rows in between them. We knew that we couldn’t use our old building method to build a city like that, so we actually built new tools for building Paris. We have basically a house block generator where we can draw a triangle in the world and it will automatically populate houses. Then we can go in and we can toggle the houses on and off, slide them back and forth, change the art style, increase and decrease the floors… It’s an amazing tool.” Nitai Bessette, Level design director, Ubisoft Toronto 051 Notre Dame is Unity’s showpiece building, but all its environments are worthy of high praise. NOV ASSASSIN’S CREED BROTHERHOOD The second of Ezio’s adventures, Brotherhood delivered a full-size Rome to explore, deepened the 21st century story and added competitive multiplayer to the series. ASSASSIN’S CREED II: AQUILUS Branching off from the canon of the games, this graphic novel followed Desmond Miles as he explores the life and times of his Roman Assassin ancestor, Aquilus. ASSASSIN’S CREED: THE FALL This was the first of three graphic novels to star Assassin-cum-Templar Daniel Cross as he delves into the genetic memories of his Russian ancestor, Nikolai Orelov.
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