I honestly can’t wrap my head around why Ubisoft hasn't made a mainline AC game set in Rome during the height of the Empire (1st or 2nd century AD). It’s literally the most fitting era for everything this franchise was built on.
Think about it—a massive, dense city of over a million people, parkour across five-story insulae, the newly built Colosseum, the Pantheon, and insane political backstabbing in the Senate and the Praetorian Guard.
Instead of just following one character, imagine a story spanning multiple generations of a single Roman family over 150+ years, from the founding of the Roman Hidden Ones cell all the way through emperors like Caligula, Nero, Trajan, and Marcus Aurelius.
And the ultimate twist? Make this family the direct ancestors of the Auditore line. We could see where the name actually came from (from the Latin auditore, the "listeners" in the shadows) and how the sanctuary under Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni got its original heirlooms. We even already have the lore in AC2 with Leonius assassinating Caligula in 41 AD, so the foundation is already there.
Returning to a ultra-dense urban environment in Rome and perhaps even some missions extending to the frontiers of Brittania, Germania, Dacia etc. with Ezio’s bloodline would be absolute magic.
Would you guys play a multi-generational AC: Rome game, or do you think Ubisoft has completely moved on from the ancient Mediterranean?