
You know - that thing Abstergo's been doing since the first Assassin's Creed game? The whole reason any of the games and most of the extended universe happen? Yeah, that's nearly done. More pertinently, the new comic promises to "culminate a key storyline from the Assassin’s Creed video games, kicking off with the Phoenix Project (featured in Assassin’s Creed Unity, Assassin’s Creed Rogue and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate) - a Templar plot to unlock the ancient secrets stored in the DNA of a precursor race". It brings together the Assassin's Creed: Assassin's and Assassin's Creed: Templars books in one package, continuing the stories of characters like Charlotte de Cruz and Black Cross. This new Assassin's Creed comic series kicks off on February 1, and will be written by Dan Watters and Alex Paknadel, with art from Assassin's Creed game storyboard artist José Holder. Titan Comics has been carrying the overarching Assassin's Creed story along now that the games aren't doing it, and the latest update from the publisher suggests it's all coming to an end: Titan is shutting down two of its four Assassin's Creed comic lines and merging them into one, all-new series. Interestingly, it looks like Ubisoft's ready to tie a bow on the whole thing. The oft-derided modern-day sequences of the first five core games chained together into a science fiction storyline which overlapped slightly with your historical adventures, and was, supposedly, the point of all your actual gameplay - but pretty much vanished after Assassin's Creed 3. A fresh cast of new and returning characters (including fan favourites Juno, Otso Berg and The Black Cross) along with brand new Assassin Ignacio Cordona.The Assassin's Creed games seem to have lost the plot, but it turns out it's just hiding in the comics series.Īssassin's Creed has an ongoing plot, in case you've forgotten that. The second chapter of Titan's brand new 3-part story arc, which will conclude the Phoenix Project saga - a major AC videogame storyline - A new creative team featuring Assassin's Creed storyboard artist, Jose Holder. But when a brand new enemy rears its ugly head, both the Brotherhood and Templar Order are forced to form a shaky alliance. The Phoenix project saga begins to unravel in this second thrilling chapter of Assassin's Creed Uprising Our modern day Assassins take the fight to the heart of the Spanish Civil War in order to secure a valuable artifact that could change the course of history.

The Phoenix project saga begins to unravel in this second thrilling chapter of Assassin's Creed Uprising Our modern day Assassins take the fight to the heart of the Spanish Civil War in order to secure a valuable artifact that could change the course.
