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Next Assassin's Creed Game Visits Feudal Japan...But It's a Free Card Game On iOS

Assassin's Creed Memories is a card battling RPG that explores new areas the console and PC games have yet to feature.

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When fans requested that the next Assassin's Creed game be set in Feudal Japan, this probably isn't what they meant. Ubisoft announced that Assassin's Creed Memories is available for free starting today on the iOS app store (no word on Android). According to the game's listing, it combines "card battle, RPG, and strategy gameplay" as well as "20 vs. 20 Guild vs. Guild combat."

But the most interesting inclusion in this new title are the new locations. In card-battling form, you'll be able to visit two locations that haven't come to the main series yet: Feudal Japan and Imperial Mongolia.

Is Ubisoft setting players up for further console adventures in these locations? Only time will tell. But there's no indication that the games are tied to any upcoming titles. This isn't the first mobile game to carry the Assassin's Creed moniker, however. Assassin's Creed Pirates came out for both iOS and Android last year. And this fall, the Assassin's Creed story is splitting in two directions with Assassin's Creed: Rogue for 360/PS3 and Assassin's Creed: Unity for Xbox One/PS4/PC.

But what do you think about this lastest addition to the Assassin's Creed family? Even if you're not sold on card games, at the very least it's free, but do you want to see Ubisoft continue to experiment with bringing the franchise to these new genres? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!

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UBISOFT GET OUT OF MY LIFE!!!! I've been waiting for fedual japan setting for ages and they do this *cries*

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ASSassins creed.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You missed the second one. Twice the ass, none of the fun.

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This is complete horseshit. We've been waiting for years to see a fully fleshed out Assassin's Creed game set in Japan and what do we get? A f-ing card game for mobile. That makes as much sense as Nintendo's ass backwards logic over these past few years.

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UBIis really creative at pissing off their fans. not getting a game set in feudal japan is fine, but this? it's called an insult.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> This entire year has felt like multiple april fool's day jokes with the gaming announcements, except it always ends up being for real.

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I think based on the epic stupidity of this announcement I'm not getting rogue or unity.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> "Gamers are a spiteful, whining, grudge-holding lot."


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Lol! What is this... I don't even...


People want a main AC title in Japan, not this abomination card game meant for mobile devices.

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Way to do it wrong.


By the way STOP WITH THE MOBAS AND CARD GAME SPIN OFFS. You WILL NOT replicate the successof Hearthstone or HoTS or League or DOTA.


You won't.


Witcher doesn't need a MOBA and AC DOESN't need a card game.


What we do need is an assassin game set in feudal japan or even the Meiji era WHERE YOU ACTUALLY ARE A NINJA OMFG IMAGINE THAT.

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Oh god yes

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Whoever decided this should go in the mobile game pile should have every car they own keyed and bologna'd for the rest of their lives . They had to know what people REALLY wanted and did this to be a huge jerk, and if they were unaware of the fans wanting a real Feudal Japan AC they're obviously incompetent at their job and should be fired.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> This is what's happening in Japan in absurd numbers, many of the best ideas for games are reduced to being money pits on mobile.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I was talking to a friend who writes for a game site last night and he said the same, Japan's pretty much all about the mobile now. It's ridic.

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How about no.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I love massive amounts of assassins creed games. But this isnt a game, this is a waste of time, both theirs and ours. Who the f*ck even plays games on iOS and android?

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Money pit, don't support this in any way.

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Are you kidding me? I would have loved to see Feudal Japan in an Assassin's Creed setting. But a damn Free Card Game? For iOS? Screw you, Ubisoft. Screw. You.

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Even worse would be if they base their decision about doing the full game in a japan setting on how many people download the card game.

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@streamline OBviously people want this game if they bought teh card game so no one bought it and no one wants this!


Despite repeated information to the contrary.


What AC fan DOESN'T want to be an assassin in Japan running on japanese roofs and such? And WHY wouldn't they make a game based in late 19th century Japan? It's a no brainer that the story would work with the setting.


If not that then at least in feudal japan.


Come the sh1t on Ubisoft people LOVE samurai sh1t.

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@grenadehh I was pointing out a concern at bad decision making. Their execs can say, "look, people said they wanted japan but only 1M downloads. Why spend $ making the full game?" I never said anything else that contradicts all those things you wrote so I don't know why you are aiming them at me.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I know I was agreeing with you and then showing how that bad decision making will bury this idea forever.

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You have got to be kidding me? They take the ONE concept that would be absolutely perfect for an AC game and turn it into a card game?


Wow. I think Ubisoft is afraid to make something not insanely 'samey' and repetitive.


Brutal.

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come on UBI you're doing it wrong !!!!

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this is really a slap in the face for those that wanted a Historical Japan AC game

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<< LINK REMOVED >> This is the one theme I have been waiting for in AC forever. It fits so perfectly that of course they wouldn't do it. It doesn't fit with their 'samey' approach to all of their games now. A blind person could see a Ubisoft game coming from a mile away.

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Are you...really? :/ I really wanted an AC game in Japan and now the chances of it happening are even lower since they can go 'Well, we already did that'. Gah. :( What's next? A monopoly AC game? Oh, wait.

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LOL wut? I sense total failure..at least I hope. Pretty insulting

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Huge mistake by making this an iOS game and not a console/PC release. The feudal Japan setting is something fans have been pitching for years and now this non-sense.

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When are corporations going to realize attempting to capitalize on fan expectations with cheap mobile and card games does NOT make us happy?

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They could've made it into an actual open world game but they had to make it an IOS app. Screw that

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...Damn.

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They had me excited for a second, but then....

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But there's no indication that the game's are tied

Grammar, people!

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they fixed it, thanks!

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@Kh1ndjal I still have no idea why some people think the rest of us give a damn about our grammar.
The last thing we care about after a hard day of work is spelling and punctuation.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Because it makes it harder to read. Reading should not be made harder.

Spelling and punctuation should only be the last thing you care about after a hard day of work is if you only care about three things. The first being grammar, of course.

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Seriously, how many Assassins Creed games are there in total now?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Not an AC game. It's an AC card game.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Too many

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Pssshhhh....Ubisoft....wow. Assassin's Creed used to be awesome, remember how that first game felt like a next-gen experience? Where did that inspiration go? Now you're doing this crap? One or two more doses of bullcrap like this, and I'm done with the AC franchise. I'm already tolerating the yearly releases and non-innovative sequels.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> non-innovative sequels...AC changes more on a yearly basis than most games do in years.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Go ahead and keep drinkin' that Kool-Aid, buddy

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