Desmond Miles to flex his lady parts?

So do we need three wrist blades now?

So without even waiting for the release of the sequel, Assassins Creed 2, apparently we’ve gone straight into speculating about Assassins Creed 3.  In a Q&A with Xbox World 360, series producer Sébastien Puel talked about having AC3‘s main character as a woman … in World War 2 France/England.  Here’s a snip:

“We’ve had discussions on that very topic,” Puel said when quizzed on the possibility of a female assassin. “It could be really interesting but we’d need to find the right time period and place for that.”

“Where would that make sense? We don’t want to just decide we want to change and have a female hero as the first inspiration is always the time period, but if you’re talking about, say, World War II the economies in England and France were run by women because the men were off fighting.”

Now sane, logical gamers have all jumped on two things automatically: a) WW2 has been done to death, why bother doing it again, and B) a stealth game, set in WW2, about assassination … wasn’t that the plot of the rather disappointing Velvet Assassin?

Seriously however, this is just pure speculation on a hypothetical question, so I wouldn’t take it too seriously.  I’m quite sure Ubisoft could be making the main character a female for the three-quel, but I’m sure the team has enough sense to find something more original than World War 2 for their source material.

You can read through the complete interview excerpts over at CVG.