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The next game in the Assassins Creed series will not allow you to play as a female character because it would have doubled the work for the games developer Ubisoft. Speaking to VideoGamer, Ubisoft technical director James Therien said female assassins were on the companys feature list until not too long ago, but were cut as a matter of focus and production. A female character means that you have to redo a lot of animation, Therien said, defending the exclusion by saying it was not a question of philosophy or choice. Ubisofts Bruno St. Andre estimated that a female assassin wouldve necessitated more than 8,000 new animations recreated on a new skeletal structure, but said that playable female characters were dear to the production team. Ubisoft said the decision was not a question of philosophy. Assassins Creed: Unity is set during the French Revolution, and allows players to take part in four-player co-operative missions in which they always see themselves as the games star, Arno Dorian, and their companions as alternate male assassins. Speaking to Polygon, creative director Alex Amancio, said this was the reason Ubisoft decided not include women as playable characters.