Over 900 people worked on Assassin’s Creed IV, game has over 2 hours of cinematics, multiple worlds unlikely in future games
A huge amount of staffers contributed to the development of Assassin’s Creed IV. Specifically, game director Ashraf Ismail says over 900 people worked on the project.
Ismail’s confirmation came about when Examiner asked about a potential “Assassin’s Creed Universe” game. He explained that doing so would be difficult given how much attention is required for just one world. Multiple worlds would require even more manpower.
Ismail later revealed that Assassin’s Creed IV offers about two hours of cinematics, and eventually concluded that an Assassin’s Creed title with “multiple, big worlds” is unlikely.
“From a pure production standpoint, it would be very, very difficult to do something like that. On this game, we’ve had over 900 people working on it. With the Assassin’s Creed machine and being the game director, even I am sometimes amazed. It takes 900 people to create the content for this game, so to try to do multiple worlds that are all big and fleshed out with unique characters in them, I’m not sure it would bring that much to the player.
“That is true, especially in terms of making sure that it’s polished and making sure everything is [high] quality. Honestly even with this game, we were very strict about certain things.
“For the cinematics that are included for the whole game, it’s [comes to about] two hours of cinematics. Two hours is a lot, that’s a full-length movie, but we did that so we could actually polish those two hours. They are quality animations, they all look good, there’s no clipping, and the facial is really great. Other games will do three hours or four hours and at some point, you can see that they just ran out of time.
“So I don’t see us ever doing that where we have multiple, big worlds. I do see this idea where you are playing in different mini-worlds and you are playing as different assassins, but I don’t think you’ll ever see America with Connor, Ezio in Italy, and the Caribbean with Edward in one game. I don’t think it makes sense for us to do.”
