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Yes, I know there's a discussion thread (or several) for the games, but this just came down the news pipe...
I'll...reserve judgement 'till we know more.
I'll...reserve judgement 'till we know more.
You ever seen Disney's Prince of Persia movie (yeah, Disney was the producer)? The parkour was okay, but nothing spectacular.Two hours of historical urban climbing and parkour would make for a very impressive visual spectacle.
It's going to be a shitty generic action movie, isn't it?
I get the feeling that, even more than the video games, in a movie format people are going to wonder why the hell we're bothering with this modern day conspiracy nonsense when we could just be following the adventures of an assassin.
Uh, I did not expect the Spanish Inquisition.Re-rezing this because of an article in Entertainment Weekly.
...Well, at least we have a view of more that one of the stars in costume.
Also, cue the Spanish Inquisition jokes...
Young...Adult? I realize the modern day portion has elements of cyber-dystopia which is popular now, but the game is rated M. The Expanded Universe stuff (nivels, comics) have never shyed away from the fact the Assassins are not good people. What is Ubisoft thinking here?Okay, we've got new pictures now, and also a release date. Also for the laughs, the YA novel of the movie is already listed for preorder on B&N Nook.
Young...Adult? I realize the modern day portion has elements of cyber-dystopia which is popular now, but the game is rated M. The Expanded Universe stuff (nivels, comics) have never shyed away from the fact the Assassins are not good people. What is Ubisoft thinking here?
First one might not be bad, if it notes the inaccuracies through bith Animus and the Orders.Oh it gets better. Also on Nook's pre order is Assassin's Creed: Through The Ages, a (quoting straight from the Nook page) "in depth non-fiction look at the worlds from Assassin's Creed using screen grabs from the game and actual historical artifacts!".
This, plus The Last Descendant, a actual YA novel is also on pre-order. I might actually grab them once they're released for a laugh.
I also didn't expect it to look like something that could actually be good. I'm cautiously hyped.
Yes and it's expected to be awful.
To be fair, that's less because a film adaptation isn't possible and more to do with Japan's entertainment industry, if possible, being screwier than ours.
I thought it already came out?
It looks like the Animus isn't just a reclining chair that inserts your mind into a virtual recreation of the past, but rather a sort of full-on immersive simulation/hallucination that requires your body to still move about, judging from the crane arm Callum Lynch's suspended from. So it might necessitate actually giving the Animus subject the skills needed to relive their ancestor's life. The only other alternative is what you said, they're training Hunters.Why would Abstergo let him train? For what purpose, besides making an Assassin Hunter, could they have for letting him actually get skills? This will either backfire horribly on the Templars, or the modern day segments in the games just got more interesting as the threat of this guy coming after the Initiates is hanging over your head.