NEW DETAILS LEAK ON ASSASSIN'S CREED SYNDICATE'S LEAD CHARACTERS

This year's Assassin's Creed entry will feature two main playable characters, one of whom is a woman, according to reports.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate, as anonymous sources who spoke to Kotaku are calling it, will reportedly take place in Victorian London. Last year's Assassin's Creed leaksupports this detail.

Syndicate tells the story of Evie and Jacob, a sister and brother duo involved with the criminal underbelly of the 19th century city. The story missions will heavily favor Jacob in terms of playtime, though, with the brother taking the lead for about 75 percent of the story, according to the report.

The sources added that there won't be any multiplayer components in Syndicate. However, players will have the ability to swap between Evie and Jacob while exploring the open-world London –– this sounds similar to Rockstar's swapping feature in Grand Theft Auto V, which allowed players to jump between Franklin, Michael and Trevor as playable characters.

We reached out to Ubisoft for comment.

The last time Ubisoft featured a woman assassin as the lead story character was 2012's Assassin's Creed III: Liberation on PS Vita. It follows a young woman named Aveline through New Orleans before and during the american Revolutionary War, which was also showcased in Assassin's Creed III on consoles. In 2013, Ashraf Ismail, director of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag said a female lead in a future entry "wouldn't be surprising."