The latest installment in the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed franchise, Revelations, has been outed after an error on publisher Ubisoft’s Facebook page.
After shipping over 6.5 million units of last autumn’s Brotherhood, it’s no surprise that Ubisoft has been steadily beavering away on this year’s version of time travel-featuring stabby action. Not much is known about the forthcoming sequel expected later this year, Revelations, but it appears as though the company was hoping the game would be revealed a lot less sooner than last weekend.
Facebook users were first alerted to a post on the official Assassin’s Creed page that informed them that “The day you have been waiting for has arrived!” Considering no confirmation of a 2011 Assassin’s Creed video game had yet been made, bar a recent investor call, this wasn’t exactly what players had been ‘waiting for’, as they were perhaps expecting the game’s full reveal was a ways off.
The Facebook link then directed users to a page that was being used as a “Like to unlock” scheme, which contained full logo images for Assassin’s Creed Revelations. The image (which can be seen above) was quickly screen-grabbed by fans before swiftly taken down.
Little is known about Revelations, other than original Assassin’s Creed protaganist Altair’s name was written in Arabic on the page. There have been three main console installments for Assassin’s Creed, with the first game centred upon the aforementioned Altair and the two follow-ups concerning Renaissance Italy assassins Ezio Auditore.
This morning, Ubisoft have formally begun the ‘Like to unlock’ marketing campaign on this page, which includes a cryptic teaser trailer for Revelations, embedded below:
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