Ubisoft says Assassin's Creed IV to return to more open-ended gameplay, discusses Edward's personality
Coming from a NowGamer interview with Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag lead writer Darby McDevitt.
"The cities operate very similarly to the way Assassin's Creed 2 did it. We brought it back to an Assassin's Creed 1/Assassin's Creed 2 style with open-ended assassination. I don't know if it was a response to [it], beacuse we started developing the game a year before Assassin's Creed 3 came out, but we were all fans of the open ended quality. I think we were actually looking back at Assassin's Creed Revelations and Assassin's Creed 3, both of which had kind of gone towards a more linear Uncharted style of experience.
We wanted to go back to Assassin's Creed 1/Assasson's Creed 2 style open-ended assassinations, so even before we saw the result of what Assassin's Creed 3 was doing, we just knew this was a philosophy we wanted to follow.
A lot of people wondered if he (Edward) was going to be Ezio 2.0. I don’t think he is. I wrote him very differently. He’s welsh but grew up in Bristol, at the age of 10, very poor, so he has the mentatlity of a kid who never had anything and wants everything, so that’s quite a counterpoint to Ezio who was born into wealth and is kind of a spolit brat. Edward is not a spoilt brat in any sense."
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"The cities operate very similarly to the way Assassin's Creed 2 did it. We brought it back to an Assassin's Creed 1/Assassin's Creed 2 style with open-ended assassination. I don't know if it was a response to [it], beacuse we started developing the game a year before Assassin's Creed 3 came out, but we were all fans of the open ended quality. I think we were actually looking back at Assassin's Creed Revelations and Assassin's Creed 3, both of which had kind of gone towards a more linear Uncharted style of experience.
We wanted to go back to Assassin's Creed 1/Assasson's Creed 2 style open-ended assassinations, so even before we saw the result of what Assassin's Creed 3 was doing, we just knew this was a philosophy we wanted to follow.
A lot of people wondered if he (Edward) was going to be Ezio 2.0. I don’t think he is. I wrote him very differently. He’s welsh but grew up in Bristol, at the age of 10, very poor, so he has the mentatlity of a kid who never had anything and wants everything, so that’s quite a counterpoint to Ezio who was born into wealth and is kind of a spolit brat. Edward is not a spoilt brat in any sense."
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