Early Assassin's Creed concept art reveals a female protagonist! :O

[Blacksite]

Work on Assassin’s Creed started all the way back in 2004 and a lot has changed since the inception of the franchise. Ubisoft has released a load of concept art that hints at some possible directions the studio could have taken with the popular series.

The artwork was done by the talented Khai Nguyen and features some interesting concepts that never made it into the games. One image of particular note is that of a female assassin, something we’ve haven’t yet seen in the masculine-heavy series dominated by Ezio, Altair and now Connor. There’s no doubt that having a female lead could bring some interesting changes to formula. You never know, they could be keeping that one on the back-burner for a future title.

Another image shows an assassin protecting a young child. I don’t know about you, but I’m glad they left that one on the cutting room floor. Escort missions are rarely ever fun, especially when you’ve got a whiny helpless child to take care of.

Check out the full gallery below.

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Interesting.

[Yuuichi]

Aww man what if....what if they wanted Assassin Greed to be their Tomb Raider. Would it have become as popular as it is.

[Kuro]

That would've pretty cool an assassin girl? Haha awesome

[Two4DaMoney]

I wouldn't have bought it.

[podsaurus]

That would have been interesting. Maybe later in the series they'll think about doing this. Those are some nice concept images.

[THUGGEDOUT]

Very cool, thought they would have introduced this in AC3, hope they do it in the next game.

[Cool-H]

wow a lot has changed, that means theres defiantly a possibility of a female protagonist in AC 4 etc...