Footage alleged to show a prototype of a cancelled Assassin’s Creed game in action has popped up online. The game, it's claimed, was set in ancient China, went by the working title Assassin’s Creed Destiny, and was a separate project to Chinese-set mobile game Assassin’s Creed Jade. Instead, from the sounds of it Destiny would have been a game aimed at PC and consoles.

MP1st claim to have unearthed this in-development look at AC ThatBungieShooter from developer portfolios and that the game was being headed by Tencent Games subsidiary TiMi Studio Group. Set in the Qin Dynasty period - as the still in the works Jade is - AC Destiny's events would reportedly have taken place in 206 BCE, putting a few years of distance between the two.

The majority of the alleged Destiny footage shows a female assassin fighting her way into a sacred palace that's under siege by real world Chinese warlord Xiang Yu, with possession of a mysterious artefact on the line. Very much an Assassin's Creed game, then. Those hooded roof-jumpers do love their shiny baubles of indeterminate power. There's also some footage of fighting animations playing out in the grey-walled prisons of dev testing environments.

Destiny appears to have gotten the axe following Tencent's decision to scale back from working on big-name Western series in favour of upping their focus on a select pool of big budget games that don't come with chunky royalty fees to other firms.

Assassin's Creed Jade didn't end up getting the axe, but does still remain without a release date as of writing.

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