User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 31-03-'15 — Assassin's Creed Chronicles announcement trailer/@comment-206.176.80.254-20150509224341/@comment-4975789-20150510003031

Dickins won't be an Assassin or a Templar, nor will he know of the Assassins or Templars, or at least I hope not. Maybe knowing of them, but if he is an Assassin or Templar, I just feel that could come off as really corny. Same goes for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The game could take place before 1837; the Industrial Revolution loosely lasted between 1775 and 1850. However if Big Ben is in the game as Kotaku's December screenshots indicated then it must take place at least partly after 1859, unless Ubi dick around with dates.

I doubt the character will go to war in Crimea. Hopefully we'll hear about it though, at the very least through newspapers like how we found out about historical events in Unity and 3.

If the game takes place after the Jack the Ripper killings (so after 1888) I hope we get some unsolvable murder-mystery side-missions, which allude to the work of Jack the Ripper. I don't want to directly meed him in the game though, it could very easily come off as cheesey or forced.

To be honest, I know surprisingly little about actual events during 19th century London! Seeing the Luddite movement would be interesting, as would seeing some of the great techincal innovations such as the first steam train drive or the opening of the London Underground, but otherwise I'll have to read up on the key events to know what to expect.

Hopefully this game is to Unity what Black Flag was to 3. Considering the vast gameplay changes introduced in Black Flag compared with any AC game however (the thing's a fully-fledged pirate simulator) I'm not so certain it will be. One can hope, though.