“The game, codenamed Rift, was originally planned as an expansion to 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, but became a full game late last year.“, reports Bloomberg. A sign of its origins as an extension of Valhalla, the game will also feature Basim, a 9th century assassin who appeared in the game released in November 2020.
By transforming an extension into a full game, Ubisoft gives itself the means to fill a possible void in its calendar and to save time before the famous Assassin’s Creed Infinity is unveiled. This also means that this Rift will be less vast and rich than recent Assassin’s Creed, which could be considered a positive point given the overloaded and endless side of these.
Instead of a gigantic open world, Rift would offer gameplay more focused on infiltration and would be expected either at the end of 2022 or somewhere in 2023. Regarding Assassin’s Creed Infinity, Ubisoft had communicated some details last July on this special collaboration between its teams in Montreal and Quebec.
Released in November 2020, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla became the biggest success of a franchise that had resumed its colors after a two-year break that led to Assassin’s Creed Origins in October 2017. Pillar of Ubisoft, the Assassin’s Creed franchise has more of 155 million copies sold worldwide and remains more important than ever at a time when the publisher is struggling to materialize other projects such as Skull & Bones, Ghost Recon Frontline or Beyond Good & Evil 2, which is still in progress. pre-production, confirms Jason Schreier in passing.