Ending already planned for Assassin's Creed series

Ubisoft has revealed that an ending has been planned for the Assassin's Creed series.

The sixth installment in the popular franchise is due for release later this year, with seemingly no end in sight to the current story.

However game director Ashraf Ismail said that there are ideas in place of how to finish things off.

"We have multiple development teams, then we have the brand team that sits on top and is filled with writers and designers concerned with the series' overall arc," he told Eurogamer.

"So there is an overall arc, and each iteration has its place inside this.

"We have an idea of where the end is, what the end is. But of course Yves [Guillemot, Ubisoft boss] announced we are a yearly title, we ship one game a year. So depending on the setting, depending on what fans want, we've given ourselves room to fit more in this arc. But there is an end."

The end won't be anytime soon, though, as Ubisoft has already confirmed that an Assassin's Creed game for 2014 is also in development.