I have decided for this week I will be branching off from Bethesda games and explore a different publishing company Ubisoft. Two of Ubisoft’s iconic gaming franchises is the Assassin’s Creed series and the Watch_Dogs series. Both are stealth-based games and each have their own conspiracy theorist’s greatest dream, a society controlling corporation. In Assassin’s Creed, the modern company Abstergo Industries is actually the ancient Templar Order, which is millennia older than the medieval order it is based off of. The Templars seek to control all of humanity, in economics, government, and even the minds of the people. To do this, the Templars seek ancient artifacts left by a intellectually superior species that evolved and ruled the Earth and created devices to control humans to use them as a slave species. The First Civilization was wiped out by solar flares and in the wake of this power vacuum the Templar Order formed. In present day, Abstergo Industries dominates the global economy and controls a significant portion of the world in the shadows. Meanwhile, in Watch_Dogs a corporation called Blume Corporation implemented the CTOS system into the city of Chicago. The CTOS is a system in which all electronic exchanges are controlled by one computer system. Essentially, the from traffic lights to electronic billboards, from phones to corporate data systems, all of this in Chicago is connected. However, it is revealed through certain audio files found in the game that Blume is using the CTOS to control people using subliminal messaging in certain outlets like advertising as mentioned above. While both corporations are problematic, there is evidence in both franchises that they exist in the same universe. In Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, you play an employee at Abstergo Industries. As an employee, you can find a digital advertising packet that is a sales pitch by Blume to Abstergo. It is essentially Blume asking Abstergo to invest and partner with them in certain fields to boost profits on both ends. While some people might just say this is an easter egg by Ubisoft to advertise Watch_Dogs, there is further evidence in Watch_Dogs to support this theory. In Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag, your boss, Olivier Garneau, goes to a shareholders meeting in Chicago and disappears. In Watch_Dogs, you play Aiden Pearce who hacks companies to steal money for a living but also takes side jobs like bounty hunting. There is a mission in the game to immobilize a target named Olivier Garneau, the same person from Assassin’s Creed. These crossovers show that Blume Corporation and Abstergo Industries exist in the same world. IF the two companies were to ever become one, it would make for a horrifying merger, a lot of paperwork, and a very interesting game.
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