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No Assassin's Creed demo, 40+ gaming time, more!

Category: Xbox 360, Posted: 10/04/2007 at 07:47PM CDT by Billy Wang, Previews Editor

acmovieOver on Gametrailers, they've put up a video interview with Assassin's Creed producer Jade Raymond that took place during this year's Tokyo Game Show and she revealed that Ubisoft is not planning a demo for Assassin's Creed.

Her reasoning states, "No, we're not making a demo. The game is a more sandbox-styled game where there's a lot [to do] and [there's] not [really] a linear mission for a demo." She elaborated a little more by saying, "it's huge, there's 3 cities and there's no way to say 'ok, we're going to cut up this square of the city and give that to you as a demo.'" She went on to compare the demo situation to the lack of demos for the various Grand Theft Auto games over the years.

Regarding length of gameplay time, Raymond said that Ubisoft has been pushing play tests for the past few months and the average length has been around 18 hours by just doing the core missions and over 40 hours if you decide to do some exploring. She suggested that in-between the game's core missions, you can engage in little side-missions, such as something to do with flags or helping people in the city.

As for possible sequels, Raymond is expecting that she would continue to act as producer for future games in the series. As for downloadable content, it's planned but Ubisoft is not concentrating on that aspect yet.

Lastly, Raymond went on to say that the PS3 version of Assassin's Creed would be released alongside the Box 360 version, which will debut in November. The PC version of the game has been delayed till early 2008.

Posted by Eddie R Inzauto on 10/04/2007 at 08:49PM

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWe want a demo. haha

Posted by jedipoodoo547 on 10/05/2007 at 03:01AM

This game reminds me of Thief. Might be overlooked though because of the bigger guns (Halo 3, COD 4).

Posted by Kester on 10/05/2007 at 03:23AM

Bah, looks like I'll get this on the 360 then, now I've heard it is being delayed (why did no one tell me sooner by the way?).

Posted by Archem on 10/05/2007 at 06:50AM

Well, I guess no demo means the final thing will be released sooner, so... Yay!

Posted by Wasabi on 10/05/2007 at 11:43AM

Nooo! Why must it be delayed? I wish they would give some reasons when they do that :(

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