Assassin's Creed III - Update on Page 10

[KoopaScooper]

I hope they include the part where Canada burns down the white house

[Ad Bot]

[sir dooble]

I hope they include the part where Canada burns down the white house

I'm curious to know where this will be set.

I mean, America is in reality a rather barren place, particularly the center of the country.
And even if it's on the coast, cities are still some distance apart. It's hardly a small place.

Would it be stuck in a single town or would it be over different areas?
In which case I would hope that there is a bit of horse-riding action as in Assassin's Creed I and II, but I don't want to find myself playing a western game where I travel large expanses by horseback. I'm not interested in Red Dead Redemption with hidden blades.

It seems like a very unusual turn for Ubisoft to take with this.
They're most definitely taking a large jump out of their comfort zone and I can only hope it pays off.
I would really really hate to see a great series ruined by one poor choice in one game.
If that happens I would've preferred to just end the game with Ezio.


I also hope that the combat doesn't change much, which I fear it just might with all the guns which are obviously going to be around. And I don't want it to be, as it appears to in the art so far, army-warfare.
I know it's concept and promotional art, but I want the game to be Assassin's Creed.
An Assassin as a soldier isn't really a proper Assassin.

And of course, I wouldn't want my character to be completely tied up in whatever political events are happening.
Sure for the beginning I suppose, as in ACII, but the guy has to be part of the Creed.
Mind you, I can easily see them writing the Templars into the Confederates.
What better for Templars to be than slavers?

[Man 2]

Recent Facebook post from GameStop

[Extrude]

It's probably just a giant trick and Assasin's Creed is finally dead after being recreated 540000000 times.

[Jaxx]

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[Moriarty]

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[_Rave_]

Ubi also released the box art, and it confirms the American Revolution setting.

My only concern is about the cities in America at the time.  There were few tall buildings, and the only important cities were New Netherlands (NYC) and Philadelphia.

[Man 2]

Ubi also released the box art, and it confirms the American Revolution setting.

My only concern is about the cities in America at the time.  There were few tall buildings, and the only important cities were New Netherlands (NYC) and Philadelphia.

Ubisoft wouldn't dare set an Assassin's Creed game in colonial America without including Philadelphia as a playable city, if not the protagonist's home town(Ezio's Florence, as it were).
I sense many corrupt British officials at the end of our hero's blade this time around.
forget, I still need to play Brotherhood and Revelations.

[_Rave_]

Mind you, I can easily see them writing the Templars into the Confederates.
What better for Templars to be than slavers?

The thing that confuses me the most is that the Templars are considered the predecessors to the Freemasons.  The Freemason's members include a whole bunch of colonial revolutionaries, such as Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and more.  I don't understand how that fits into the AC Universe tbh, but I think Ubi will have to rewrite a bit of history for the story to work.

[Man 2]

Mind you, I can easily see them writing the Templars into the Confederates.
What better for Templars to be than slavers?

You've got your wars mixed up. The Confederates didn't come about until the Civil War.

[sir dooble]

You've got your wars mixed up. The Confederates didn't come about until the Civil War.

Oh right. I'm rather poor with my American History.
We're talking American War of Independence?

I suppose that's better for being longer ago than the Civil War.
Well, I suppose it'll feel weird fighting British people for me, since you don't often find games where you're against your own people (Don't often get World War II games where you play as national socialist soldiers).
But I can put up with it for the Creed. :3

If they're setting it in America though, there is clearly going to have to be some thinking about how they're setting the game.
It just sounds too far-fetch'd to believe that we'd have this one Assassin-soldier-protester who only stays in one city in America, particularly if that city would only really be under the control of either the British or the Americans.
I'm eager to see what they come up with though.

[blockguy123]

his blades are gone

HIS BLADES ARE GONE

NO.

GOODBYE ASSASSINS CREED

EDIT:Guys! Look at his axe (tomohawk) Its shaped like an assassin emblem!

[Man 2]

Maybe the Assassins play a pivotal role in the revolution, and you as an Assassin participate at points in the game in certain turning points like Gettysburg?

his blades are gone

HIS BLADES ARE GONE

NO.

GOODBYE ASSASSINS CREED

[blockguy123]

nononono
thats just gauntlets
he dosent have his blades, replaced with a loving LOUD ASS MUSKET THAT HALF THE loving 13 CONTENINTS CAN HEAR.

[Man 2]

nononono
thats just gauntlets
he dosent have his blades, replaced with a loving LOUD ASS MUSKET THAT HALF THE loving 13 CONTENINTS CAN HEAR.

Note that each assassin has the distinct leather gauntlet on the left arm, the same that you see on the Revolution assassin.
This indicates the presence of a hidden blade.
Ubisoft would be made very unpopular if they removed the Assassins' iconic primary killing tool from the Assassin's Creed series.