On Tuesday, Patrice Desilets, the acclaimed creator behind the "Assassin's Creed" franchise, has announced more details about his upcoming project, "Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey." The upcoming video game project is currently being developed at the Panache Digital Games, an IGN report said.
"Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey" is an "ambitious project" that reportedly chronicles the various events of humanity since the dawn of man until the time it ruled the planet. The report indicated that Desilet's new video game is a third-person roleplaying action game. For Desilet, "Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey" can be best described as "Civilization tech tree meets Assassin's Creed."
"Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey" video game will reportedly allow players to take control of the planet and discover how exactly humankind destroys it. Desilets hinted that whatever characters players assume, their decisions will have a severe consequence to their family. When the reported video game is rolled out, it will be released as an episodic series, according to IGN.
"For me it's fascinating that those little one meter chimp with a kind of weird brain kind of took control of this planet and is totally destroying it. Your character and family will have the scars of your decisions... We're not into caveman yet, we're before that. We go up," says Desilets as quoted in a report from Kotaku.
Desilets' vision is for players to have an ultimate 25-hour unique gaming experience since "Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey" video game will comprise a series of small chapters. Players will start off as pre-human species and will evolve as the game progresses.
He further revealed that at the onset of the game, players will assume the role of Orrorin Tugenensis, a pre-human specie from six million years ago. The said character will evolve episode by episode, according to him.
"So we do an action sequence telling you the first time when we stood up. We let you sprint, see forward then leave you in an open world and you survive as long as you can. In a later chapter you will eventually have a family that needs to survive, a tribe that needs to survive, but that is in the next chapters," Desilets added.
