It's a new world for "Assassin's Creed: Syndicate." Ubisoft has designed a game that's innovative and groundbreaking in more ways than one with the latest version introducing the first transgender character of the franchise.

According to a report from Eurogamer, one of the supporting characters in "Assassin's Creed: Syndicate" is a trans male named Ned Wynert. He will reportedly be one of the quest givers for the game.

It's a step forward for the company and Assassin's Creed Syndicate creative director Marc-Alexis Côté spoke up about the significance of the move to the company.

"Inclusiveness is something that's super important for us as a team," Côté told Eurogamer. "We've made a good push towards diversity and how we approach different subjects in the game."

Even the game's opening statement was tweaked from previous versions to reflect the new heights of inclusivity that the team wanted to push for. The new text reads: "Inspired by historical events and characters, this work of fiction was designed, developed, and produced by a multicultural team of various beliefs, sexual orientations and gender identities."

"It felt like when we first wrote that for AC1 it was something that was very inclusive," he explained the decision to edit the statement. "But I've had the chance to work with more than 12 different writers on Syndicate. At one point, one approached me and said that we were not embracing diversity fully enough."

"I had reviewed all our crowd dialogue, I was happy with our two protagonists, but they were talking about the statement at the beginning of the game - that it was exclusive of some people. So I asked for them to propose a new statement," Côté explained.

The updated direction of "Assassin's Creed: Syndicate" comes after Ubisoft faced considerable backlash last year for not providing playable female characters in "Assassin's Creed: Unity". According to a report from Game Spot, a female character was originally part of the plan for the game, but the company decided against it due to the amount of work it would take."

"A female character means that you have to redo a lot of animation, a lot of costumes," Ubisoft technical director James Therien explained to Video Gamer. "It would have doubled the work on those things."

He added, "Again, it's not a question of philosophy or choice in this case at all. It was a question of focus and a question of production."

Now, the developer put in the extra work to make the game experience more varied with the inclusion of Wynert and a playable female lead (Evie Fry) sharing the screen.

"Assassin's Creed: Syndicate" for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC will be released on Oct. 23.

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