Assassin’s Creed 3 is going to be setting more than a few key milestones for Ubisoft, with the publisher hoping that overall sales is one of them. With a politically-charged story line, a minority protagonist, the first cooperative game modes and more, fans are in for a a larger treat than they’re used to.
Now, it seems that the overall size of Assassin’s Creed 3‘s campaign and multiplayer can be estimated, and is too big for a single disc.
Before people start expecting that the campaign or game world will be explicitly similar to Skyrim or Mass Effect 3, the developers claim that the split may have as much to do with Assassin’s Creed 3‘s multiplayer as its singleplayer. Philippe Bergeron, the game’s Mission Director explained to NZGamer that the aging Xbox 360′s hardware means that developers are needing to adjust their delivery systems. Xbox 360 still utilizes standard DVD technology for their discs, as opposed to the PS3′s Blu-ray.
That’s not too big an issue to fix, but did necessitate a separation of assets:
“This time around, we’re cracking at the seams. We have two disks on Xbox.”
It seems that both the online components of AC3 and the singleplayer have received enough respective upgrades and expansions to warrant a standalone disc each. Not particularly surprising, given the apparent horsepower of Ubisoft’s new AnvilNext Engine. Whatever the specific reasons, the admissions is undeniably good news. Not just because it reinforces the large promises made about Connor’s new animations and combat mechanics, or the larger game worlds, but for the multiplayer as well.
Ubisoft’s take on multiplayer was a form of online play that surprised many at first, but turned out to be a welcome change of pace to the prevalent death match and capture the flag’s of the world. For AC3, the team has set their sights on the ‘Horde Mode’ style of gameplay, teaming human players against waves of NPCs – albeit with a clear Assassin’s Creed twist – in the new ‘Wolf Pack’ mode. How well the franchise meshes with the play style remains to be seen, but obviously the developers are giving themselves enough space to make it worthwhile.
Some may still have doubts that Ubisoft will do justice to the size and scope of American Revolutionary battles, but at least they’ve got the elbow room to pull it off. And we’d assume that the potential seen with AC3‘s naval battles more than accounts for a large portion of real estate.
Think this is a good sign of what’s to come, or merely a symptom of aging consoles?
Assassin’s Creed 3 will be released for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on October 30, 2012. A PC release is scheduled for November 20, with a Wii U version on November 18.
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Source: NZGamer
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thats typical nowadays though. how many games now have 2 discs for the xbox? too many and it also waters down games for it, i cant remember what it was but there was a huge came a while ago (it may have been la noire but cant remember) and it had more features on the ps3 because dvds couldn’t handle more.
Anyways, im sure Microsoft will have bluray planned but i think Sony owns it so maybe not.
Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung all own Blu-ray. Nintendo is doing the same thing as blu-ray but going in the red spectrum. Microsoft could do the same as Nintendo or just work with the Blu-ray Disc Association.
I didn’t add the board members or contributors.
I never heard about the 360′s LA Noire being worse or different from the PS3′s, aside from it containing 3 discs, but one game that’s on the 360 that has multiple discs has been judged as better that the PS3 version by almost every reviewer and journalist, and that’s Rage, which also had three discs. If I remember correctly, textures loaded more smoothly on the 360 and the PS3 suffered from framerate loss while the 360 version ran at a constant 60 fps.
Textures often run smoother on the 360, developers say it all the time.
I used to own both consoles. 360 has SLIGHTLY better textures because it has more memory. That’s all.
like i said i cant remember what game it was.
That’s rubbish. There are very few 360 games that come on more than one disc, Skyrim was one disc and that’s a massive game.
Yea sonny owns blu ray there wont be any chance of blu ray coming to xbox but i herd that theres going to be a new format for the new xbox
@Jak Frost
Sonny? There jumping in the console business too?
Two discs is great news. You can never have too much content. Really excited for the coop mode they have planned too.
I have both an xbox and ps3, assassins creed will always be played on the ps3 for me
This is just a symptom of an aging console. A console that doesn’t even utilize Blu-ray technology.
thats Because sonny owns bluray
Sony does not own Blu-Ray (rather a share of it). Panasonic owns the largest portion of Blu-Ray.
How many people know that Microsoft receives royalties on every Blu-Ray shipped due to their codecs being used in Blu-Ray?
A small gripe that can be swept under the rug compared to the PS3′s latest issues. Good to know that the game has a lot of content.
I don’t see how this is in anyway an issue, but it’s good to see some PS3 fanboys coming out of the woodwork to have a dig at the 360, an older and still superior console.
I hope it’s for content rather than multiplayer, never played AC multiplayer because it’s all online and not split screen.
More discs sells thats why some blu rays have two discs people here that and automatically think thats a lot of stuff even tho bluray holds up to 50 gigs and a regular cd hold 11 to 12 gigs
PS3 almost always has framerate and texture pop-in problems where Xbox 360 doesn’t. Just read the reviews for many popular games, and the reviewers will tell you almost every time that the 360 version was more stable overall.
That being said, doesn’t Assassin’s Creed fit more into the 360 category anyway? Sony looooves their JRPGs, and so their system is packed with them. It only makes sense that the PS3 doesn’t handle some games as well as the 360 does. That’s why it took so long for Final Fantasy and Metal Gear to reach the Xbox; the Playstation has been groomed for Japanese games, whereas Xbox has not.