User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 04-07-'12 — Independence and Rise Trailers/@comment-4374396-20120705184225/@comment-4043223-20120705212907

In all likelihood he isn't in it and we can tell because of the way Ubisoft have avoided the topic. Something probably happened (I won't speculate) but the AC team are aware that the longtime fans of the series hold Kyd in high regard. All I know is that Kyd wasn't working on Hitman Absolution because of AC commitments and.. well now we see he is likely not working on it. Also, you are probably aware of this already but Balfe only did some of the multiplayer and the majority of the cinematics backdrop music for ACR and Kyd did the soundtrack for ACR.