who remembers that game the saboteur? it pretty much was ww2 assassins creed in occupied paris
I remember that the parts of the city that the nazis occupied were all in black and white, while the free parts were in color. Cool game
Jesus, that sounds like a cool concept. A shame that game never left obscurity and nothing like it has been made since.
I wonder what color they painted all the tiny penises to be. Didn’t they use like a variety of super vibrant colors and stuff?
Not in a horny way, in hindsight I can see how it came off that way though. More of a bemused curiosity.
Like, if the Spartans were the proto chuds of the west and Athenians were the proto insufferable neoliberals. Imagine what the power of Zizek’s hot takes on the differing color schemes between city states or something.
Playing an Irish mechanic fighting Nazis in occupied Paris using a burlesque club as a cover is goofy?
Not so much the premise but the execution; the questionable voice acting/writing, the 7 foot tall Nazi supersoldiers in trench coats with dieselpunk tacticool assault rifles, resistance fighters running around in full French Army uniform, a Korean scientist doing MK Ultra stuff in occupied Paris, giant zeppelins with artillery guns mounted on them, literally having a DLC that adds boobs etc
Obviously it's trying to feel comic book-like anyway so it works in context, but there was quite a lot of wacky stuff in that game.
I loved that game
Especially sending a car careening into some Nazis standing guard, having also trapped it to explode after a brief period so the ones who come to investigate get it too
That scene from RRR but photoshop the British guy to be a drone operator: “I see you’ve learned the ways of empire well”
I’m surprised they haven’t made a Cold War assassins creed were you go around killing communist leaders and liberating people and bringing free market reforms to the oppressed
Unfortunately for Ubisoft ACII established that except for Stalin pretty much all Communist governments were Assassin aligned.
The secret glyph puzzles lay out how the Templars have fucked shit up through history. Hitler and Stalin were both Templar Plants set there by Templar leaders FDR and Winston Churchill to forestall Lenin (an assassin ally, his brother was an assassin)
Additonally Allende, Castro, Sankara, the Spanish Anarchists Durruti, and at least some of the International Brigades were Assassins/ or Assassin Aliies. Venezuela and Chavez are Assassin aligned as well
plus i think a puzzle in ac brotherhood reveals that the dissolution of the soviet union was a templar plot. it's also revealed that capitalism was created by the templars (with people like henry ford and other capitalists at the helm) to ensure control of the working class.
i recently replayed the ezio games and it's surprising how much based stuff is in the modern day plots and puzzles, although it certainly isn't perfect
But a moderate faction one if I recall. One that wanted an alliance with the Assassins.
EDIT: Yeah, Sun Yat Sen was a Templar reformist, Mao is indicated to be either with Sun Yat Sen's faction or an Assassin depending on the source.
Chiang Kai-shek was a hardline templar ally, but betrayed the Templars and the Assassins and is generally considered an awful person.
Eagerly awaiting the next AC installment to see how Deng fits into all this
Deng Xiaopeng is canonically mentor of the Chinese Brotherhood of Assassins, like his predecessor Zhou Enlai.
EDIT: Apparently not canonically, see below. Still let's go with this.
Okay so if you're getting that from this page it's apparently from a fanmade project. Before I realized this I got really freaked out because it references a 2021 game by Ubisoft Shanghai set in China during WWII and I thought I was legitimately getting Mandela effect'd because I'd never heard of this in my life. Then I looked a little closer at the url and the fact that it was "available for PlayStation 5, XboxNEXT, and PC, with a planned release on Nintendo WiiPlay in 2022" which made things pretty clear.
Ah, I'd assumed that was a comic I'd not read that was related to the Black Cross series that has Sun Yat Sen.
I've been playing Sniper Elite 5, and it honestly feels kind of close to that. AC's parkour system would definitely be a welcome addition.
I guess it's impressive that it's a mod, but ever since Breath of the Wild figured out how to make Ubisoft-style open world games actually fun to play they all seem outdated in comparison.
