Highlights

  • Assassin's Creed Red fulfills a long-held wish for a new settings by finally going to Feudal Japan.
  • Fans have been vocal about wanting a World War 2 AC game for years, with previous games hinting at its potential.
  • AC Red opens the door for demanded settings that have been overlooked so far, including World War 2 and many others.

With 13 mainline games currently under its belt, the Assassin's Creed franchise has already delivered a plethora of truly impressive historical settings. From Renaissance-era Italy to Industrial Revolution-era London to Ancient Egypt and so many more beloved locations in between, Assassin's Creed has continued to pour a great deal of time, effort, and passion into recreating some of the most iconic time periods in history. It seems as though Assassin's Creed Red is going to be no different.

Though virtually nothing official is currently known about the game, including its actual title, Assassin's Creed Red is one of the most anticipated releases in franchise history, because it finally fulfills some long-held wishes. Just when all hope for a Japan-set Assassin's Creed was lost, Ubisoft announced Assassin's Creed Red. If that can happen, then maybe there's room for one more long-awaited Assassin's Creed pipe dream to come true: a World War 2 AC game.

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Assassin's Creed Red Could Pave the Way for a WW2 Assassin's Creed Game

Fans Have Been Waiting Years for Some Assassin's Creed Settings

With over a dozen mainline entries already released, the Assassin's Creed franchise has covered more than its fair share of historical periods. But there are still a handful of settings that fans have been desperate to see for years now, and Ubisoft knows it. Every few years, Ubisoft will release a survey that asks players to pick their ideal Assassin's Creed setting from a list of multiple options. Over the last decade or so, the same choices kept cropping up. Fans kept picking them, but Ubisoft seemingly decided to keep turning them down.

Feudal Japan was one such option, appearing in both the 2011 and 2017 Ubisoft surveys. There are a few other options that have cropped up several times over the last decade and that are still yet to come to the series, including Medieval China, the Spanish Conquistador invasion of the Americas, and the Russian Revolution. For years, fans have picked these options hoping that one day they'd get to see them come to fruition, and now Assassin's Creed Red has swung that door wide open.

For the longest time, it seemed like a Feudal Japan-set Assassin's Creed game was just a pipe dream, with Ubisoft seemingly ignoring the clear desire for one for years. With the release of games like Ghost of Tsushima, that pipe dream seemed to move even further away. But then Assassin's Creed Red was announced, and now it feels like anything could be on the table, even a setting as risky as World War 2.

A WW2 Assassin's Creed Game Already Has Some Great Foundations

Though it's rarely appeared on Ubisoft's official surveys, many fans have been very vocal about their desire to see an Assassin's Creed game set in World War 2 for a while now. This desire was only exacerbated back in 2014 with the release of Assassin's Creed Unity, which featured a Time Anomaly mission that saw players scale the Eiffel Tower and gun down fighter planes at the height of World War 2. Though this section is very brief, the unique atmosphere, architecture, and gameplay of this segment is still living rent-free in the minds of many fans.

This Time Anomaly feature was explored even further in Assassin's Creed Syndicate just a year later. By accessing a rift in the north of Assassin's Creed Syndicate's London map, players get transported to a World War 1-era Tower Bridge, which is currently under siege by enemy forces. A bit more fleshed-out than AC Unity's WW2 aside, AC Syndicate's WW1 segment takes place over seven missions, letting players immerse themselves in this unique setting even further. While a WW2 setting has been hotly demanded for years, a WW1 Assassin's Creed game could also tick a lot of the same boxes.