Ubisoft has yet to officially unveil the new Assassin’s Creed project titled Invictus, but it is already becoming clear that the game may struggle to win over players. According to insiders, the company’s management decided to push for a live service title and chose Fall Guys as a reference point — a bright, cartoonish, and highly casual arcade game.
There is nothing wrong with Fall Guys itself, but this direction hardly matches what fans expect from Assassin’s Creed. Apparently, the same sentiment is shared by the developers working on Assassin’s Creed Invictus.
French insider xj0nathan, who has repeatedly proven his knowledge of Ubisoft’s internal affairs, reported that a developer from the Invictus team contacted him directly. According to that source, almost no one on the team actually likes the project. Game designers, writers, artists, and other technical and creative specialists do not believe the game has any real chance of success. Only «efficient managers» continue to praise it to upper management, despite the fact that their decisions have already harmed the publisher in the past.
«I don’t know a single colleague who actually likes Assassin’s Creed Invictus. The only people who keep smiling and praising the project are the managers. Everything about it feels wrong, from the visual style to the core gameplay idea. It all looks terrible — clumsy animations, ugly cartoonish characters (the faces are just awful), idiotic sound and visual effects, combat arenas… the very concept is simply depressing.».
The source also pointed out that the problems go as deep as the game’s fundamentals, including a complete lack of clarity about its target audience.
«I honestly don’t understand who this game is being made for or why it was conceived in the first place. Maybe it’s aimed exclusively at kids… six year olds? I have no idea. If that’s the case, I feel sorry for their parents — they’ll have to keep paying for yet another wave of microtransactions.».
According to xj0nathan, Invictus visually «resembles Fortnite, but in a less cartoonish way — something between realism and cel shading».
All of this raises obvious questions about how Assassin’s Creed Invictus managed to survive Ubisoft’s major internal shakeups and why players should be interested in a game that its own developers struggle to defend.
⬇ This is how Assassin's Creed Invictus might look if Ubisoft does not change course.
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