Ubisoft Montreal’s producer Vincent Pontbriand has come out to say that they both acknowledge their missteps in Assassin’s Creed 2’s DLC and vow to improve when it comes to after-retail releases for the newly released Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood.
Vincent goes on to say in a discussion with CVG:
“We wish to [do better]. I think people felt cheated at the impression that there was stuff that didn’t make it into the game. It’s frustrating since I can understand that view but it wasn’t our intentions at all.”
In comparing their approach to Brotherhood with what was done with the second game, Ubisoft is well aware that people were greatly dissatisfied with having certain elements of their main quest removed only to be charged for them later. Not only were these sequences held back from the player, but they weren’t very engaging to boot. This move, while financially smart, put a smudge on an otherwise great game.
Now that Assassin’s Creed has been outfitted with its own multiplayer mode, Ubisoft has decided to use that mode as the arena for releasing their DLC. Taking a page straight from the more popular DLC purveyor’s book, expect Brotherhood’s offerings to come in the form of new maps or new characters rather than extra story missions. With such a hotly anticipated title, content of any sort is more than welcome.
Trying to make your mark in such a crowded fall season is already a difficult task as it is, but at the same time being asked to extend your game’s shelf life can create some wear and tear on a developer. Now that Ubisoft has learned from their mistakes and has made moves to ensure they do not happen again, the hope here is that long after Brotherhood’s release gamers will be coming back for seconds, thirds, and so on.
Are you willing to give Ubisoft another chance after having been burned by their previous DLC offerings? Would you be interested in purchasing maps/characters for the multiplayer mode?
Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood is available now for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. Look for Game Rant’s full review tomorrow morning.
Source: CVG
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That would be awesome to have new characters and maps in multiplayer.
i really dont get where the hell people come off saying the dlc for ac2 was cheap and that they where cheated. many games have done the same thing as creed in the aspect of hiden stor ymode peices. Hell gears of war 2 just did this with their game by leasing that road to ruin or w/e it was with extra conteint explaining how marcus and dom got into the hive. so people bitching stfu and if by some grace of good some1 at ubisoft reads this. i gotta admit i love ur games keep going and i cant wait for the dlc
i never actually picked up any dlc for ac2. was i missing out?
“i never actually picked up any dlc for ac2. was i missing out?”
Yes, very much so. Did you not notice that there were missing memory sequences?
I disagree completely that the DLC will take the form of more maps and characters for multiplayer. Of course they will be, but they will not be the focus.
While the multiplayer aspects are fun and have been well-received, this is not a game like Call of Duty. With games like those in the CoD series, most people buy them for the multiplayer aspect with the singleplayer experience being fun but still secondary. CoD Black Ops had a really fun singleplayer mode, but the multiplayer is really where it’s at.
Assassin’s Creed (1, 2, and Brotherhood) is about the singleplayer experience through and through. I guarantee that no one went from “I won’t buy or rent Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood” to “gotta get this!” because they heard there would be multiplayer. It’s still fun and interesting, but more so because it actually fits into the story (as the players are Templars training in Assassin skills through the “bleeding effect”). The fans of the series are in it for the story, to find out more about Desmond and Lucy and Abstergo/the Templar Order.
Assassin’s Creed 2 ended with the mystery of those two missing memories. They were mentioned before the last memory and then during the end credits. And while I admit that the DLC missions really had little to nothing to do with the overall plot (present day), it was still nice to have the extra content for Ezio’s story and it was clearly always part of the plan to include it as DLC. As for this one (no spoilers, don’t worry), the game has set the groundwork for DLC that focuses on singleplayer due to the typical Assassin’s Creed cliffhanger. At one point early in the game, someone mentions that Ezio returns to his old base decades after the events of AC:B, implying that Desmond is going to fill in the gaps of what happened AFTER, not in between like in AC2.
Ubisoft has been extraordinarily respectful towards their audience thus far and I fully expect the DLC to show us how Ezio ended up back at Monteriggioni so many years later and even hint to us what happens to Desmond after the cliffhanger.
They’re releasing free DLC for the MP at the moment, so I’m completely fine with more.
Of course the Multiplayer is a nice time-spender, but i’d rather find out what happens with Ezio further in his life (and maybye see some GOOD armor, since Ubisoft disappoints me with thier armor-ideas), since(am I missing something?) I don’t understand what happend at the end with Cesare. And for some reason (Minor Spoiler) there’s a jump between the two last sequences from 1503 to 1509. I would like to find out what happend in those eight years. And I hope to god that the the next Assassin’s Creed isn’t set in the 2nd World War. ( Just sucks if you were to have proper handguns)