The female bodies objectified in these games lack personality and identity and “almost never get to be set dressing or props in someone else’s narrative,” as Sarkeesian says. She focuses on the “decorative virtual sex class,” as well as the violence these non-playable characters can receive. Women in Video Games series, which went live today, Sarkeesian explores how female characters serve as background decoration in video games. When female characters are featured they are usually hyper-sexualized and diminished to tropes, as Anita Sarkeesian explains in her Feminist Frequency video series. Instead of having a similar ratio of female to male playable characters, only 15 percent of characters are female. Ubisoft has since issued a statement saying that while their newest Assassin’s Creed game does not include female assassins, it will feature “strong female characters.” The characters, still uncertain, may only have the purpose of aiding the male playable character.Īccording to industry numbers, over 40 percent of gamers are women, contrary to the stereotype of the teenage boy gamer. “It’s unfortunate, but it’s a reality of game development.” And I means it’s something the team really wanted, but we had to make a decisions,” Ubisoft technical director James Therien explained to. It would have doubled the work on those things. “A female character means that you have to redo a lot of animation, a lot of costumes. But when the new game’s big launch came last week at E3, fans were disappointed to find that the new version still includes no female players.ĭespite having 10 studios of video game developers working on its projects, Ubisoft said that adding a female player would have been too difficult to create.
Originally, development company Ubisoft planned to include a female playable character in the new version of the game, Assasin’s Creed Unity. A still from the new game Assassin’s Creed: Unity, part of a series which has sold over 73 million copies.Īssassin’s Creed is an extremely popular video game-but it doesn’t let users play as a female character.
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