Multiple Assassin's Creed remakes in development

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says the publisher wants to release new Assassin's Creed games "more regularly" in the future, including remakes of older games.

Ubisoft has struggled with remakes several times. The remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been in the air for four years now, and it's still nowhere near completion. The Splinter Cell remake is even more shrouded in mystery and we don't even know if it's still in active development. It was announced in 2021, and that's all we've gotten since then. Hopes that some kind of update would be revealed during the Ubisoft Forward presentation earlier this month were dashed when the studio didn't say a word about it.

However, it seems like Ubisoft isn't giving up just yet, and is really keen to play around with its deep portfolio of games. "Players can look forward to some remakes that will allow us to go back to some of the games we've made in the past and update them," Guillemot said when asked about the future of the Assassin's Creed series in a Ubisoft promotional interview. "There are worlds in some of our older Assassin's Creed games that are still incredibly rich."

Guillemot didn't say which Assassin's Creed games would be remade, but we can guess which games make the most sense for a remake. They could either tackle the original story of Altair or his successor Ezio, who we've played in three games (Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood, and Revelations). Many fans would also like to return to the golden age of piracy in Black Flag. Ubisoft has no shortage of options, and if they execute them right, they could have a real hit on their hands.

The Assassin's Creed franchise has been around since 2007 and is one of Ubisoft's flagships. Over the years, it has brought the studio a lot of accolades and lifted it above the average. There have been a few highs and a few serious lows. After a few years, fans got tired of the same gameplay pattern, and it was clear that Ubisoft needed to change the formula if they wanted to refresh the franchise. Guillemot also took this to heart, agreeing at the time that releasing a new game every year wasn't the way to go.

And so it was. After the very mediocre Assassin's Creed Syndicate, it took Ubisoft two years to release a much better sequel, Origins, and when Odyssey came out the following year, it made the change that many had been longing for. Even critics agreed that Odyssey was a very good example of what an Assassin's Creed game should be like.  

Guillemot said in an interview that Ubisoft's goal is "to make Assassin's Creed games more regular, but not to make the experience the same every year." He cited Assassin's Creed Hexe, a supernatural-themed game that we don't know anything about, as an example, and which will be "very different from Assassin's Creed Shadows."

Kotaku reported last year that a remake of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag was in the works, and while that remains unconfirmed, Guillemot's words help to raise hopes that it's actually happening. First up is Assassin's Creed Shadows, which will be released on November 15th.