assassins creed

While it's light on actual gameplay, this new trailer for the next Assassin's Creed game wants you to get to know the protagonists that will cause many deaths in the cobblestoned streets of Victorian England.

Get your top hat on and watch it.

Now with more gameplay!

There's a good chance it'll be the long rumored, never confirmed Victory, set in Victorian London.  Rumor has it the game is now being called "Syndicate."

Pip pip, cheerio, and all that rot.

The metroidvania style gameplay along with the asian style art direction already have me itching to play this game.

In a paper titled "Falling Into Straw," physics students at the University of Leicester debunked any hope you had in the myth of leaping off a building and landing safely in a haystack in Assassin's Creed. 

After what I'm sure amounted to vigorous research into haystack leaps in the game, the students concluded that, put simply, you shouldn't do that IRL.  While the piles of loose straw would provide some cushioning from falls, you couldn't pull off the kind of jump an assassin does because the haystacks are too small.  The haystacks in game are only about 1.5m tall, and according to the paper, you could fall no further than 12-13m and expect that stack to save you.  If you're willing to sustain "severe injuries," you could stretch that height to about 50m, but you certainly won't be shanking any enemies after that leap of faith.

Kotaku got their hands on a video for the next Assassin's Creed game called Victory, featuring Assassin's against Templars in Victorian London. Ubisoft has responded to the leak confirming the game's legitimacy:

It is always unfortunate when internal assets, not intended for public consumption, are leaked. And, while we certainly welcome anticipation for all of our upcoming titles, we're disappointed for our fans, and our development team, that this conceptual asset is now public. The team in our Quebec studio has been hard at work on the particular game in question for the past few years, and we're excited to officially unveil what the studio has been working on at a later date. In the meantime, our number one priority is enhancing the experience of Assassin's Creed Unity for players.

Check out its launch trailer above.

Priced at $399, this bundle comes with Assassin's Creed Unity and Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (and an Xbox One). The bundle will be released on November 2, 2014. There will also be a version of the bundle with Kinect for $499.