We have been hearing quite a bit about the next Assassin's Creed game, but nothing official from Ubisoft yet. Recently, another bit of information has come to light, once again, it's not official and should be taken with a grain of salt.
A Reddit user, Sirusavath, is claiming that they work with a company that creates pre-order cards for a couple department stores and through this they discovered that not only was Far Cry 5 in development, but the rumored Assassin's Creed Empire will actually be named Assassin's Creed: Origins.
The company I work for is involved with making pre-order cards for a couple of different department stores and a few weeks ago there was a new order for Far Cry 5. There was also one for Assassin’s Creed: Origins. I saw some of the tentative artwork for the later a few days ago and it’s the Egypt game that has been rumored to be called Empire.
The user went on to verify that it did indeed look like Egypt is the setting:
I didn’t get to look at it for long but it was art for a reservation card for a US retailer. The game is called Assassin’s Creed Origins and looks very much like it’s set in Egypt. The artwork had a city with a pyramid in the background. In the centre of the card there is the new assassin walking toward the city. It looked like he was carrying a shield, a bow, and he had a hawk of some sort on his shoulder.
As well as the existence of a Gold Edition of the game:
Last bit of note is the reservation is for the Gold edition of the game which has the base game, the season pass and comes in a steelbook packaging. No idea what the price will be. This isn’t the first time that I’ve found out about a game thanks to my work and in past experiences, the game is usually announced before our printer ships the cards, or shortly after. I believe these are scheduled to shipped on the 30th so the official announcement should come by then.
There you have it, we might be seeing Far Cry 5 and Assassin's Creed: Origins at E3 2017.
