BY AMIT BARAN ROY | Assassin’s Creed Identity has been officially announced by for a worldwide launch on February 25, 2016. The game is currently iOS exclusive, though we hope that the Android version will be coming soon. Assassin’s Creed Identity will be the first action adventure RPG game in Assassin’s Creed franchise to be released for mobiles only. The game is in development by and was earlier soft launched in 2014 for iOS.

In this game, players will be engaged in exciting tasks of solving the mystery of ‘The Crows’ while proceeding through the story missions and quests. These missions will be based on various cities and popular landmarks of iconic Italian Rennaisance. The game is developed using the Unity Game Engine, and players can control their character with different types of controls- touch to move, dual virtual sticks or even gamepads.

Moreover, one can get to create a new assassin of their choice and customize it with either of the four classes- Berserker, Shadow Blade, Trickster and Thief. Berserker is for open combat, Shadow Blade is more oriented towards stealthy gameplay, Trickster possesses all round capabilities, whereas, if you want to be fast and cunning, Thief is for you.

Further to note, Ubisoft won’t be releasing any new Assassin’s Creed console game this year. Rather, there are rumors for to get a launch date in 2017 with Egypt as the setting. Recently, Ubisoft launched the 2.5D side scroller game, for consoles and PC. The final sequel to the Chronicles edition, ‘Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia’ will be released on February 9, 2016.

Heads Up: Assassin’s Creed Identity will be available on iOS app store on February 25, 2016. Ubisoft is yet to confirm on an Android version of the game. The game will require iOS 7 and an iPad 3 or later model, or an iPhone 5 or later model.