Ubisoft goes for the kill with Assassin's Creed Facebook game

As a companion to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood set to release November 16,Ubisoft will soon launch Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy for Facebook. The French developer behind the more recent Prince of Persia games is releasing the game in a few days to serve as a tool to fuel excitement for the new console iteration of Assassin's Creed. Beyond that, the Facebook game will also help players along as they progress in the console game. Players will earn points in one game to spend in the other, according to what Ubisoft vice president of digital publishing Chris Early said last night at a press event in San Francisco.

Also, players will be able to unlock content in the Facebook game that can be explored in the console version and vise versa, Early said. He also mentioned that the company has learned from its previous failures on Facebook like Horse Gaga and Tick Tock and has put quite a lot of investment into this cross platform project, including getting game designers to play along.

Assassin's Creed Project Legacy is Ubisoft's first branded social game and Early, who joined the developer six months prior, is trying to bring the company into the social games market in a huge way. But will branded companion games be enough to compete with the big dogs like Zynga and Playdom? We'll see in a few days.

Rumor: Assassin's Creed: Revelations leaks through Facebook app

Ubisoft said it would reveal more information on the next Assassin's Creed game in May, but it looks as if someone posted the "Publish" button too early on Facebook. The French developer's upcoming installment in the time-traveling, conscious-jumping assassin game will be known as Assassin's Creed: Revelations. We know that thanks to a leak on the franchise's Facebook page that occurred late last week. While Ubisoft quickly removed the News Feed post that allowed fans into the Flash application, it wasn't fast enough to stop screen captures and even at least one user swiping the Flash file, seen here.

Apparently, the sneak peek of the game was supposed to be revealed slowly through an interactive Facebook campaign, something the company has previous experience with. To coincide the release of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Ubisoft released Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy in Nov. of last year. Well, thanks to a Facebook advergame leak, it looks like the cat is out of the bag. Enjoy your first peek at the next game in this immense series, and remember it was your addiction to Facebook games that made it all possible. Well, you can at least justify it that way.

[Source: NeoGAF]

[Via: VG247, Games.on.net]

What do you think of this pretty large leak? Will this affect Ubisoft negatively or positively, and what does it mean for future Facebook advergames or companion games?