Assassin's Creed. A game with the worst kept secrets in gaming history has just let another whopper slip. While we've suspected there was more to the game than meets the eye for a while now, IGN have an interview with actress Kristen Bell where she discusses her involvement in Assassin's Creed:

Yeah, I actually have one coming out for Ubisoft. I don't know what the date is; sometime next year. It's called Assassin's Creed. You can check it out at assassinscreed.com. It's actually really interesting to me. It's sort of based on the research that's sort of happening now, about the fact that your genes might be able to hold memory. And you could argue semantics and say it's instinct, but how does a baby bird know to eat a worm, as opposed to a cockroach, if its parents don't show it? And it's about this science company trying to, Matrix-style, go into people's brains and find out an ancestor who used to be an assassin, and sort of locate who that person is. It's very, very cool, and I've seen all the graphics for it. We just recorded all the dialogue and did all the face scans and body scans, and I'm really excited about it.

It seems clear that Ubisoft planned for this to be a big surprise, until now we've only seen videos and screenshots that show a medieval crusade setting.