Current Assassin’s Creed story arc set to wrap up in 2012

What with all of the Assassin’s Creed spin-offs we’ve been seeing for the past couple years – good spin-offs, granted – I was beginning to wonder just when we’d see the end of the current story arc kicked into motion by the original Assassin’s Creed.

According to Ubisoft’s statements in a recent interview with Eurogamer, we’ll be seeing the end of the first story arc relatively soon – around December 2012, in fact.

“In Assassin’s Creed we set up a timeline with this whole end of the world plot of December 2012,” said Alexandre Amacio, creative director on Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. “That’s fast approaching, and the story we have to tell, we obviously need to do it before we arrive at that point.”

Just as Assassin’s Creed: Revelations will bring about the end of Ezio and Altair’s respective storylines, the next, as-of-yet unnamed (or officially announced, for that matter) Assassin’s Creed title will see an end to Desmond’s story arc.

“Assassin’s Creed is all about cycles – we have the Ezio cycle and the Altair cycle, and both of those are set to conclude in Revelations and we have the Desmond cycle, which is set to end on December 2012,” said Amacio. “But there’s many cycles within the brand – that’s the whole point. History is our playground.”

Ubisoft has plans to continue the Assassin’s Creed franchise after the next game, perhaps with a new character, but Ubisoft says not to expect anymore annual Assassin’s Creed releases.

“We’re already structuring the way we do Assassin’s Creed, so it will no longer ever be like that,” said Amacio. “Our development approach is changing so our cycles aren’t structured the same way – so it gives us a little bit more development time.”

Source: Eurogamer