User blog comment:Kabutsu/Assassin's Creed IV Setting Ideas/@comment-4207028-20121125025801

My analysis and thoughts on the Industrial Revolution game:

I think it would make a lot more sense to have this be a pseudo-sequel to the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars games, and not to have events in them incorporated. Referenced yes, have some of the same characters yes, but not to combine the two. That's just a little too much. (Indeed, have the main character's father be an Assassin who appears in the Napoleonic Wars game?)

I think this game should just steer clear of the early parts of the Industrial Revolution (and simply incoroprate some of that early stuff into the aforementioned French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars games), and focus on the real meat of the Industrial Revolution: 1830s to 1850s or 1860s in England.

I wouldn't bring in the Revolutions of 1848 outside of the one in France (and maybe Germany, I love the idea of bringing Karl Marx into this) into this game, I don't see too much overlap between the others, and I have my own theory for the Revolutions involving Austria and Italy.

Abolition of slavery: I can see some overlap between this and an American Civil War game, like maybe visiting Jamaica in this? Considering thats where a lot of slaves held in the British Empire went (note I'm going on a limb here)

Crimean War: I don't really see a way of adding this in. Unless it was a story mission in the vein of Viana in Brotherhood where you have to track down and assassinate a target.

I'm thinking what would really work for Assassin's Creed in the 19th Century (excluding the Napoleonic Wars) is this: Game set in the 1830s- early 1860s in England and Germany focusing on the Industrial Revolution, as well as the German Unification. Then, a Game set from the 1880s to 1901 in Victorian London (where you play the son of the character in the previous game here), and finally, a game set from 1846 or so to 1871 in Italy and France focusing on the downfall of the Hapsburg Empire in Vienna, the Wars of Italian Unification, the Franco-Prussian War, and ending with the Paris Commune.

The player character in the first Industrial Revolution game would be able to move between Germany and Britain quite easily by virtue of being half German, half English. In addition, I can see the protagonist of the Victorian London game being the father (or mother?) of the protagonist of the Europe, 1911-1939 game you wrote above.

The player character of the Italian Unification game (thats really what it would be about) would be a half Italian, half French Assassin descended from Ezio, and possibly some other characters. He settles in Paris after the events of the game.