1. A Female Character
DisneyWithout doubt the most controversial subject surrounding the next installment in the Assassins Creed franchise is the players inability to chose their characters gender in the games much anticipated co-op mode. Many had believed that playing as characters other than the the central protagonist would mean that players would have the freedom to chose their sex. Ubisoft revealed that they had initially intended for players to chose the gender of their co-op character but time constraints combined with the severely increased workload that introducing a female character would bring made it impossible. However, the animation director of AC III, Jonathan Cooper, rebuked this statement, stating In my educated opinion, I would estimate this to be a day or twos work. Not a replacement of 8000 animations continuing that other than the walk/run cycles, most animations are androgynous. This criticism from a former employee certainly makes it seem that Ubisoft are inexplicably opposed to featuring a female character; clearly some extremely bad publicity that the game doesnt need. Jonathan Coopers insight about how easy it would be to introduce a female character has led many to believe that Ubisoft will go back on their word and make a lady-assassin available as well. Indeed, it would undo a lot of the bad feeling that is currently being targeted at Unity. We certainly hope that this rumour about Ubisofts change of heart is true. Introducing a female character would make the game more accessible to women and allow more players to enjoy the game as they want to.
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