The next Assassin’s Creed game releases on 26 February. Wait, what? Yeah, it’s a board game; something called Assassin’s Creed: Arena.
The game is made by Cryptozoic Entertainment, who have handled board games for the Adventure Time and The Walking Dead licenses. It’s billed as “a strategic game of cat-and-mouse that pits 2-4 players against each other in a race for kills.”
Cards air-assassinating one another is not a particularly visceral (the most important word in gaming!) experience, so Cryptozoic had to figure out some ways to make it challenging. Basically, when it’s a player’s turn, he’ll draw an “event card” that sets out the next objective. Often it involves killing someone. From there, a player gets a number of spaces he may move in a turn, plus three options, move, hide or attack. Crossing the line of sight of a guard (his forward facing path) causes a player to sacrifice a card, which serve as health bars.
There’s plenty more at the link; Assassin’s Creed: Arena is available for $US50 on 26 February.
Assassin’s Creed: Arena — Getting Down to Basics [Ubisoft blog]
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2 responses to “Assassin’s Creed Has A Board Game; It Comes Out In Two Weeks”
Looks kinda… cheap.
Is it standard these days for board games to write “BOARD GAME” on the box? Seems like they’re just phoning it in, lind of like videogames that are titled “THE VIDEOGAME”.