Assassin's Creed: Empire - 9 Settings That Would Be Way Better Than Ancient Egypt
5. Japanese Occupied Manchuria
For those of you unversed in the ever catastrophic events that led towards the Second World War, this setting is bound to rouse your interest.
As most will know, the Japanese Empire was a pretty big deal in the 1930s. Decades prior to its preemptive strike on Pearl Harbour in December 1941, it had managed to humiliate the Russian Empire in a war that effectively kick-started a revolution, and afterwards, went on to dominate much of mainland Asia. One area that it had major designs on however, was Manchuria.
Dubbed 'Manchugo' by the Japanese, this resource-rich area of southern China was coveted heavily by the military apparatus. A suspicious explosion at Mukdun and a whole lot of spin later, and wouldn't you know it, the army invaded - all in the name of 'keeping the peace'.
The reality of Japanese occupation was utterly brutal. Russians, Koreans, and Chinese citizens were wildly oppressed, but it was women in particular who bore the brunt of Japan's punitive occupation as so called 'Comfort Women' - so much so that it took until 2015 for the Japanese Government to actually acknowledge the awful acts that were committed.
How would the Assassin/Templar conflict factor in? I'll leave it to Jason Kang to answer that question, whose gorgeous concept of an AC game set during the occupation is simply too good to miss.