Assassin's Creed: Identity launches in NZ, coming soon to an iOS device near you
Assassin's Creed is a massive console franchise that has never really fully embraced smartphones and tablets. Sure, there are several Assassin's Creed games (and some comics as well) on the App Store, but nothing that matches the look and feel of the open-world games that have made the franchise famous. Assassin's Creed: Identity, which just launched in the New Zealand version of the App Store, is looking to change that.
Identity looks a lot like the console versions of Assassin's Creed, placing you in the Italian Renaissance period. Spying, researching your targets, and ultimately killing them off is obviously the core gameplay here, but there's also the same pseudo-historical flavor of past games, with backstories of real-life locations as well as period-accurate characters.
As many publishers have gotten in the habit of doing, the game launched in NZ as a test market before wider release, but the fact that it's available to the public means it's rapidly approaching a broader release. MCV notes the game is slated for an early 2015 launch.
[via Joystiq]
