Assassin's Creed Unity: 10 Incredible Rumours That Could Happen

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3. Moral Ambiguity

UbisoftIn the past the Assassin€™s Creed series has suffered from being morally uncomplicated. Everything has been a little too black and white €“ the Templars are the bad guys and the Assassins are unquestionably good. Gaming as a medium has progressed and the consumer now expects a narrative to have morally grey elements which allow the player to make their own moral judgements. One of the opening statements in the E3 commented demo is that €œa King once ruled €“ headstrong and corrupt; now headless and a corpse, murdered by men just as vile€. The fact that both the beheaded King Louis XVI and the insurgents who start the Reign of Terror are dismissed as being morally reprehensible is most certainly a good thing. After playing through Assassin€™s Creed III we know that Ubisoft are partial to depicting revolution €“ they need to acknowledge that in a revolt both factions are always responsible for countless atrocities. It seems that neither side is being portrayed in a good light in Unity which is most definitely a step in the right direction. We hope that this moral greyness extends to the rest of the game, representing a maturing in the narrative style of the series which will for the first time allow players to make their own judgements.