Assassin’s Creed Unity has a new release date. Ubisoft has just announced that the game will be made available for purchase on November 11, 2014 in the United States and on November 13, 2014 in EMEA territories for the PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
The news of the game’s release date was put out along with two new screenshots depicting the game’s protagonist, Arno, in action as he takes on a trio of French militiamen and one where he jumps swan-dives off a building, both of which you can see in this article.
The game’s new release date is two weeks after the previously announced release date. One of the game’s developers, Senior Producer Vincent Pontbriand explained that being a fully new-gen game, the game “requires a lot of work, a lot of production, and a lot of learning.”
“It’s always hard to be precise and to quantify exactly how much work is involved. So as we get close to the finish we often realize we’re near the target but we’re not quite there yet,” said Pontbriand in an official blog post about the game’s release date.
Pontbriand further explains that the team had to rebuild most of the systems powering the Assassin’s Creed series, rather than simply refurbishing an old version of the game.
“Sometimes to improve the experience. Sometimes to improve the gameplay itself. Sometimes to reskin it, to make it look fresh all over again. Or sometimes because we had to make everything online-compatible.”
“And AC is a huge open-world game. We have thousands of NPCs on screen. We have more depth in the types of AI we’ve built. The graphics are spectacular. The processes are way more complex. Which makes it exponentially harder to grasp everything than it was in the previous generation.”
According to the developer, the extra two weeks of development time will help Ubisoft deliver on the promise of the game, which he says they are very confident in making.
The release date for Assassin’s Creed Rogue remains unchanged, which also comes out on November 11, alongside Unity.
