Ubisoft reportedly discontinued an after-civil war-murder Assassin's Creed game to be "too political"

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Assassin's Creed has been run as a series for almost two decades and made us to almost every corner of the world during dozens of different periods, but despite having a particularly interesting history that would be rich in exploring, Ubisoft has been a bit questionable to explore the United States. You have to go all the way back to the publication of Assassin's Creed 3 2012 to find the only main line title in the United States.

It was apparently changing pretty soon. According to a new report from Game File, Ubisoft apparently had a gaming set in America after the Civil War in early development, which was specifically established during the reconstruction period of the 1860s and 70s. You would have played as a previously enslaved black man who goes with the murderers and travels south to try to stop the appearance of the Ku Klux clan.

Ubisoft reportedly discontinued an after-civil war-murder Assassin's Creed game to be “too political”

Unfortunately, it sounds like this is a game we can never play. According to the report, Ubisoft decided to scrape this game around July last year even though there was enthusiasm from developers about the project. It is argued that one of the reasons for the cancellation was the counter -reaction to the disclosure of Yasuke, the black Samurai, a protagonist in Assassin's Creed shadows.

For those who remember, Assassin's Creed shadows were immediately marked as “Woke” by players thanks to Yasuke's disclosure, with many who called his pure existence “disrespectful” to Japanese culture, even though he was part of actual Japanese history. Ubisoft released a couple of half -hearted statements that defended the character, but Yasuke was a constant controversy.

The game file also reports that this reconstruction ERA Assassin's Creed game was canceled due to rising political tensions in the United States. One of their sources explained quite unclearly that the game was “too politically in a country too unstable.” Unfortunately, it is also claimed that many people were frustrated by the game's cancellation and saw it as Ubisoft bowed for controversy. Now it is something we will never play, and I think it's a shame.