TV Star Spoils Assassin's Creed Twist
Ubisoft's hard-kept secret lies in tatters thanks to Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell. Needless to say, there are spoilers within.
Few games have been as shrouded as Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed, a new game that casts you as an assassin during the Third Crusade. There have been rumours for some time that there was much more to the story than that, and they seem to have been confirmed by recent comments from one of the actors working on the game.
The naughty girl in questionVeronica Mars star Kristen Bell told IGN that what superficially looks like a jaunt through Crusades-era Jerusalem is actually a high-tech brain hack.
Warning: you may want to stop here if you don't want the twist spoiled.
"It's sort of based on the research that's sort of happening now, about the fact that your genes might be able to hold memory," Bell told IGN. "And you could argue semantics and say it's instinct, but how does a baby bird know to eat a worm, as opposed to a cockroach, if its parents don't show it? And it's about this science company trying to, Matrix-style, go into people's brains and find out an ancestor who used to be an assassin, and sort of locate who that person is."
Bell has been working closely with Ubisoft on the game, lending both her likeness and her voice to one of the characters.
Ubisoft has been at pains to ensure this information didn't come out until it was ready to let people know, and the company hasn't yet commented on Bell's slip-up.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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