Guardian Interview With Patrice Desilets

Recently, the Guardian sat down for an interview with Assassin’s Creed Creative Director, Patrice Desilets. They discussed the crowd mechanics, the idea behind “flower box” gaming, your faithful horse and the controls, among other things.

You can ride your horse at multiple speeds from a very slow walk that allows you to sneak past guards without attracting their attention to a very fast gallop that will leave all of your enemies in the dust. Besides riding around, you can also attack enemies on horseback with your sword, you can use your horse to reach higher locations by standing on it to jump onto near by objects, you can make your horse jump over obstacles and even ride it on top of rooftops and jump from roof to roof. Your horse will follow you around if you get off of it. Which I think is cool because it kind of makes it feel like he’s your pet. And your horse may even rear and kick enemies if he gets agitated.

To read the entire interview, head here:

Assassin’s Creed Interview

And to discuss in the thread, head here