Fantastic Four and one-time Assassin's Creed actor reacts to Ubisoft's cancellation of a post-Civil War era game in the most appropriate way possible: "F**k off"

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Assassin's Creed games in order: All of the current Assassin's Creed protagonists on a misty white background.
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A Fantastic Four and one-time Assassin's Creed actor has told Ubisoft to eff off after the publisher stepped on another rake.

Word on the street is that Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set in the American Civil War era which would've had players fighting back against the emerging Klu Klux Klan as a former slave. Why? Because the company was scared online racists would be annoyed as they were about Assassin's Creed Shadows. Lame.

As far as I could find, Ineson's never thrown profanities at the publisher before, but the "Once again" might be referring to the time he told an AI user to "f**k off" too. What a poet, eh?

The canceled Assassin's Creed game was reportedly still in the concept phase of development and would've been years away from release if it hadn't been canned last summer. The racist vitriol against Shadows' black protagonist hadn't reached its peak at the time; Ubisoft were apparently more concerned about the US political climate as a whole because, somewhere along the way, it became controversial to fight the KKK(?)

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Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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