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PC Assassin's Creed and Mercs 2 delayed till 2008

Category: Industry, Posted: 09/22/2007 at 12:11PM EDT by Billy Wang, Contributor

acmovie Continuing the slew of delayed games news, Ubisoft announced a delay to the PC version of Assassin's Creed. Originally planned for release this fall alongside its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts, the PC version will now be released in early 2008. While no reasons were given for the delay, this is surely a bummer for PC fans (including me).

In related news, IGN has an interview with Josh Resnick, president and co-founder of Pandemic Studios, and he confirms that Mercenaries 2: World in Flames has been delayed till early 2008 as well. Resnick divulges some information on why the game was delayed.

"The easy answer is that we wanted to time it more closely to the movie. But then we realized that we don't have a movie, so we just said, "Aww hell, let's just make the game better."

It's really that simple -- we don't want to slop out a game just to meet a deadline. Some companies rush products out to meet that big holiday deadline for the massive gift-giving season, and we would rather make sure that every corner of our vast, open-world, highly explosive gameplay is completely polished. We owe that to Mercenaries fans."

Assassin's Creed is heading to Xbox 360 and PS3 this fall and for PC in early 2008, while Mercenaries 2 is heading to PC, Xbox 360, PS2 and PS3 in early 2008.

Posted by grega t on 09/22/2007 at 12:18PM

Man. All we need now is for the orange box to be delayed by another year because "someone stole the source code"

Posted by sig220 on 09/22/2007 at 12:31PM

I don't so much care about assassins creed, but I really was looking forward to playing mercenaries. Although I am glad that they want to make sure the game is completely ready first, and I don't so much mind a delay for that (Thats why Im not mad each time they delay Half Life).

Posted by Altontowers on 09/22/2007 at 04:41PM

I'm happy Assassin's Creed hasn't been delayed on the 360. I want this game.

Posted by Aurien on 09/23/2007 at 12:11AM

Maybe Ubisoft has learned their lesson. They've had several cross platform games that just sucked on the PC because they where rushed to meet the multi platform release. I'd rather wait for a polished game, then get a buggy game sooner.

Posted by Eddie R Inzauto on 09/23/2007 at 09:06AM

Man, if I still had a PC that could actually play games, I might say something like, "motherf%$&^#@$#&**@&^@(#%*&!!!!!"
As it stands now, I can just get Ass Creed on 360. Mercenaries....oh well.
I like Resnick's comment, though.

Posted by stemaxx on 10/25/2007 at 10:28AM

IMHO the problem about PC version of games could be they are much easier to crack and copy, so Game houses wait for the 1st big "selling session" of the console versions to exahust, before they release the PC one.
If this is right, ALL multi-platform games will soon follow this trend.
Anyway i agree that rushed PC conversions have always been terrible, so better wait and get a better release.