Tsarist Russia
Technically speaking, the Assassin’s Creed franchise has already visited this time period through graphic novels Assassin’s Creed: The Fall and Assassin’s Creed: The Chain, but I know I’m not the only one who’d love to see this particular setting brought to life through a fully-fledged game. It’d be magnificent to the see splendour of Russian Tsars at the height of their power and there’s a lot of interesting historical events that the story could also tie itself to.
The biggest obstacle here is that – as previously mentioned – it has already been explored and that brings with it a number of additional challenges. If Ubisoft adapts Nikolai Orelov’s story, they risk being called lazy by critics – and if they retcon or ignore it entirely, they're just as likely to anger fans. All that said, Ubisoft have made it clear ‘Everything is Permitted’ when it comes to Assassin’s Creed settings and on the merits of its architecture alone I’d love to see Ubisoft revisit Tsarist Russia.
