With Assassin’s Creed: Unity, Assassin’s Creed: Rogue, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China, and the compendium Assassin’s Creed: Birth of a New World – The American Saga, you might be forgiven for thinking there are enough Assassin’s Creed games on the horizon. But Ubisoft would beg to differ, and have soft-launched Assassin’s Creed: Identity for iOS in New Zealand and Australia.
Assassin’s Creed: Identity is a free to play 3D adventure game, developed by Ubisoft Blue Byte, known for their work on strategy titles Settlers Online and Anno.
The game is set in Renaissance Italy, and you choose from one of four types of assassins to complete each mission. There’s the Beserker, Shadowblade, Trickster and Thief, each with differing abilities. Your assassin can be upgraded by earning skill points and taking time to train – the time needed can be reduced by paying for in game coins, which vary from NZ$4.99 for 50 coins, to 1350 coins for NZ$99.99.
The game is not set for worldwide release until 2015, on iOS and Android. This early soft-launch is probably to help Ubisoft balance the free-to-play elements with making Assassin’s Creed: Identity playable and fun. Watch a gameplay video below.
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