According to a new rumor, Assassin's Creed Odyssey designer Ubisoft Québec will lead development on the unannounced Immortals Fenyx Rising 2. Ubisoft's Québec branch created the original BOTW-inspired Immortals title, once additional inviting players to leave on an excursion across the Ancient Greek world. Like the open-world Zelda game it acquired so intensely from, Immortals featured everything from physics-based puzzles and Vaults to mini-bosses and paraglider-like Daedalus Wings.
The bright adventure hit PC, Stadia, last-gen, and current-gen consoles in December 2020, only a brief time before CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 went to market. As a result, Immortals Fenyx Rising never truly got an opportunity to shine, but those who ventured across its vast landscape swore by it. Ubisoft continued to support the experience for months on end, too, with free content updates and paid DLC that consistently gave players a reason to return. And, despite its unfortunate release timing, Immortals appears to have performed all around ok to warrant further exploration.
Writing for XFire, industry insider Tom Henderson claims sources acquainted with Ubisoft's operations told him the French publisher has been planning a massive games showcase for some time. When the supposed pre-E3 2022 event will go live is not yet known, but Ubisoft plans to let loose details about something like 20 different projects when the time comes. Reportedly, a sequel to Immortals Fenyx Rising counts as one such title. Henderson notes the unannounced subsequent entry presently sits in pre-production, with series creator and Assassin's Creed Odyssey studio Ubisoft Québec "presumably" serving as lead designer. The insider added that Québec recently began hiring for the sequel, though no further details have surfaced at this time.
As always, it's best to take all of the above with a grain of salt. Ubisoft has yet to so much as hint at these claims, let alone completely corroborate them. Still, the Assassin's Creed publisher possibly pursuing Immortals Fenyx Rising 2 doesn't sound beyond the domain of possibility. And a sequel could be just what the nascent franchise needs to truly set itself apart from other open-world adventures on the market.
The Ubisoft Québec group also has a team assigned to Assassin's Creed Infinity, the untitled live-service insight in production at the Québec and Montréal development houses. Apart from confirming that it won't send off as a free-to-play game, Ubisoft remains mum about AC Infinity's specifics. Either way, it seems the Québec studio will have its hands full for the next several years.