With the Assasins Creed timeline advancing will we eventually get a modern day Assasins Creed ? At that point what would be the point of the series anyway.
Yeah, the setting since AC III keeps hammering on how in the old times Templars could be reasonable (and even sometimes *gasp* be in the right!), and that both sides decayed through the centuries into two quasi-mafias having a big turf war of planetary scale. Even more with the revelation in
Unity that the Revolutionary Grand Master that influenced the Templars up to modern times was a Sage (and thus first and foremost working for Juno), so the A-Class assholes that are at the lead of Abstergo can be differentiated from the occasionally reasonable Templars we saw in the past. (I mean, when your faction planned and brought WWII and you had fucking
Adolf Hitler among your ranks, there's no possible redeeming points for you from that point onward!)
Initiates even gave us a varied and colorful cast in the present times: a grandma Assassin Mentor/Yakuza boss, a Russian Assassin woman able to singlehandedly kill a whole Assassin cell gone batshit crazy, a badass gay Assassin MMA fighter and his lover basically running on Crazy Awesome to fight the dreaded Templar anti-Assassin Sigma Team, a badass Finish Templar Master ex-Finnish Special Force with Warrior Poet tendencies and Viking sense of honor at the head of said anti-Assassins team and archnemesis of the aforementioned badass Assassin MMA fighter... holy shit sign me up! And that's just a small part of the cast!
Anyway, for me, it's clear that in the end we'll get a (or even several) episodes set into the present concluding the saga, with the Assassins and Templars finally realizing that they are more bad then good for mankind and deciding either to bury the war hatchet for good and work together or disband and let mankind chose its own destiny.
And the best way for two enemy groups is to have a bigger threat forcing them to work together, and lo and behold, we just have Juno fresh out of the digital freezer, his mass produced husband and the Cult of the First Will filling the role of fanatic mooks!
Maybe have a new schism in the Templars between the assholes at Abstergo and some following the old ideology (ten bucks Juhani is their leader) to justify them having to work with the Assassins and separate them from Abstergo and its whole "we started WWII basically for shits and giggles, oh yeah and Hitler was our pal" business.
I liked the first game because it was based on Hashashin myths. Set in places you dont usually see in videogames like Crusades era Syria. You deal with muslims,christians, knights etc in a sort of historical setting. Did not really get the point of later game.
Hey, I didn't saw a lot of games set on Italian Renaissance, the Ottoman Empire, the Seven Years War or the late 18th Century revolutions.
Why was someone dressed like an Assassin in the Caribbeans ?
For the same reason Caribbean and Louisiana Templars run around in big high-collared leather longcoats and sometimes shoulder capes, because that's part of their typical attire.
For the Assassins, the more you move from the Crusade and Renaissance eras, and the more their "uniforms" boils down to "put anything you want (conspicuousness optional but recommended) add in a hood and a red sash and you're good to go!" (and in modern times they don't even bother with the red sash anymore)
Anyway, back to
Syndicate, seems like Ubisoft is continuing the trend of showing the Assassins as potential mafia-like assholes, before they affiliated with pirates and gangs, now it's the first members of organized crime, except that if the trailer is to be believed, the Templars now too don't have any qualms on associating on masse with them instead of using national armies like they did before (probably thanks to the aforementioned shift in ideology brought during the French Revolution)
