While we know there’s always room for improvement, we believe this new structure allows us to ensure that diversity and representation within our teams continues to grow and match that of our players.” A historical precedent “Most importantly, Assassin’s Creed has always been developed by multicultural teams with various backgrounds and perspectives that have influenced the depiction of its characters, locations, and cultures. “Rather than continuing to pass the baton from game to game, we profoundly believe this is an opportunity for one of Ubisoft’s most beloved franchises to evolve in a more integrated and collaborative manner that’s less centered on studios and more focused on talent and leadership, no matter where they are within Ubisoft,” reads an open letter signed by Nathalie Bouchard, managing director, Ubisoft Quebec and Christophe Derennes, managing director, Ubisoft Montreal. One of the top dogs at Ubisoft and a senior member of the Ubisoft Quebec team, Côté has worked on Brotherhood and Syndicate before moving to upper leadership positions at the company. These two teams, and the games they produce, will ultimately be overseen by Marc-Alexis Côté, who becomes executive producer of the entire Assassin's Creed series. Clint Hocking (Splinter Cell and Watch Dogs Legion), will lead a team out of Ubisoft Montreal, while Jonathan Dumont (Assassin's Creed Syndicate and Odyssey), will head up the crew at Ubisoft Quebec. Ubisoft outlines Infinity as being headed up by at least two teams, run by two creative directors. Instead of being the endeavor of a single arm of Ubisoft, the company has confirmed that the project will be a collaboration between multiple internal studios across the globe. Who is working on Assassin’s Creed Infinity? We wouldn’t be surprised to see Infinity feature some sort of interactive hub area, set in the series’ modern day setting, with a selection of Animus devices set up letting you dive into whichever period takes your fancy, across multiple games from multiple Ubisoft development teams. Considering that was a retroactive decision, we’d expect Ubisoft to have a clear ongoing roadmap for the way titles built with Infinity in mind will interact and reflect each other – the gaming equivalent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With that title, IO Interactive was able to pull all three of its Hitman trilogy games together retrospectively into one package, while constantly adding new assassination contracts to keep players coming back for more. In practice, it could work a bit like the recent Hitman 3 release. There’s nothing stopping Ubisoft from using the Animus as a central hook through which Assassin’s Creed Infinity ties all these diverging time periods together, while also drip feeding new content into the mix. In the games, players are able to access the past through a device called the Animus, using ancestral information to recreate times past.
The franchise already has an underlying narrative that ties each game together.