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Rumor: Assassin’s Creed 3 Set In the American Revolution
Based on a report from CVG, a source “close to the project” claims that the next installment in the Assassin’s Creed franchise is setting its sights on the American Revolution.
Aside from the 18th century conflicts surrounding the early American colonies, the insider also claims that a new protagonist will lead the way for the Assassin brotherhood.
Thirdly, the insider claims that the game will be “publicly showcased before the end of the company’s fiscal year on March 31.”
Indeed, this rumor is not entirely out of the question, as previous entries have pointed toward such occurrences. In Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood’s Da Vinci Disappearance DLC, clues were dropped that laid out coordinates matching those of New York state, USA.
In the ending sequence of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, another hint is dropped that points to creed-related events in Northern America.
Among all of these indications, the 2011 Ubisoft survey might be the clearest of them all. Late last year, fans were asked to vote on where they would like to see the franchise go next. One of the options, if not one of the most selected, was “The confrontation between British colonists and native Americans during The American Revolution.”
As CVG points out, George Washington, according to Assassin’s Creed lore, was in possession of an Apple of Eden at some point.
Ubisoft has yet to comment on the situation.
Given that the game is indeed set in the American Revolution, what differences in gameplay style should we expect? After all, the past few games set the player within tightly structured cities and towns, with only varying stretches of flatland between populated areas. Would this setting place the players closer to the battlefront, or only have the war as a backdrop to the Assassin/templar sub-plot that’s been explored for four games now?
If we don’t know by March 31st, I expect we’ll know by June 2012, when E3 rolls around and Ubisoft needs something to showcase.
[via CVG]
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AMURICA, FUCK YEAH!
In all seriousness, I think this is going to happen. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations ended with Desmond and crew arriving in upstate New York. And let us not forget about the puzzles in Assassin’s Creed II, that mentioned Templar influence in the American Revolution, so if this is going to be the setting for part of Assassin’s Creed III, I’m all aboard.
I seriously can’t wait for the new AC. I’m hooked on the series, and my patriotism is increasing by the second every since I heard this. :)
With me not having yet finished revalations, I would like a game with a totally different setting but I’m not entirely sure if the revolution is the best. I believe I voted for something different but what they choose to do is best I suppose.
Revelations…Revolutions…
That is really cool! Very exciting.
I’m just worried about which side the Templar’s may come under. I would guess that the Templar’s would side with the British. But that worries me, we’re always the baddies :(
That’s great news!
A hooded dude killing people with swords and hidden blades duaring the American revolution?
I can’t imaggine how DULL it would be. There were a lot of better locations like china (katana blades, fireworks, a lot of buildings and castles to climb). Seriously Ubisoft had no better ideas.
>:-I
are you serious! fuckin 300 sparta assassin killing everything in his way while bullets and bombs goin around is fucking epic dude!
This could be a really interesting change of scenery, in the AC franchise. The american revolution (Not that i know too much about it being south american) could be a great context for the next AC but i am little worried about the actual gameplay, it must include firearms and that sort of stuff, swords and knives are no longer the main weapons. If this became true, i am eager to see how they adapt the franchise.
But the hidden blades definitely stay
I was extremely hoping for the chinese dynasty. Am majorly disappointed if this is true. Doesn’t mean I won’t get it though.
That would be really cool indeed! Maybe a future idea???
They could also do second world war and be a sniper assassin like Vasili Zajcev! And the templars some hidden group of nazis
with AC2 they could get away with melee, since it was at a time when a bow/crossbow still had advantages over guns.
But now we are at the point when guns are the weapon of choose and swords and sabers are more for decoration and showing rank then actual combat (they were still used but it was not ideal).
Maybe the assassins are going to become real assassins since a single gunshot could kill you, you need to use stealth to avoid guards. I’m OK with the fighting part but it should really be a “engage at your own risk” kind of thing.
Some of you commenters are acting like guns from that time are equal in accuracy and power to modern day weapons. Gameplay would most likely stay the same.
Well, they may not be, but then again, the guns in Ezio’s story arc were pretty accurate, making them much more dangerous. I don’t want AC to turn to a third person shooter stealth game, I’ve got Metal Gear for that. Even if the muskets are crap and inaccurate, they still take away the idea of mano-a-mano combat
I like the idea of the setting being during the Revolution, it will be interesting how Ubisoft handles the combat. As for people complaining about how a Chinese Dynasty Era game would be better, to my knowledge the only reference in the Assassin’s Creed universe to Chinese assassins is in Embers.
People are talking about the combat but what about the parkour elements? That’s probably the funnest part of the series and as I recall there weren’t many large cities in 18th century America. I may be wrong, I wasn’t there, but I think I’m right.
No…
No no no NO!
NOOOOOI!!!
GOD NO, NO!
Enough with going back in time, no more Animus. Desmond learned how to be an assassin through the bleed-effect from the Animus in Brotherhood, let us utilize these skills to kill Abstergo agents now, and discover the secrets of the Apple in modern day. Please stop this, we’ve already introduced a new character (Ezio) and concluded both his and Altair’s story in the best way without upsetting people. Please no.
American Revolution? There’s nothing in America, what would you explore? What ancient artifacts can we come across in an ancient tomb that we must traverse through to get said artifact?
I might just quit now, I’ll wait until there’s an Assassin’s Creed that doesn’t try to milk out the series with historical events and gets right to the saving the world from the unknown force that Abstergo is working with or some other plot twist. Let’s wrap this up and move onto Assassin’s Creed Reach in the war before Altair took the stage.
Might be worth noting that this rumor is a couple years old.
I can’t say I’ll be looking forward to this game. 2012 is upon us, I don’t want a game that plays off of past events. In Assassins Creed III, I want to finally play as Desmond, conclude the story with the ones who came before, stop absturgo, and…
*Inhales*
SAAAAAAVVVVEEEE THE WOOOOOOORLD!
but in all seriousness, Abstergos plan is set for 2012, and the next end of the world is also set for that time. I want in game lore to match with real world time, not have Ubisoft make 10 more games before finishing the story. Stop milking the cash cow before it goes sour.
Its an okay idea but it wont make sense!! At least not in the beginning because there is absolutely no point in putting him in the animus anymore!! Desmond already knows what to do or so he says!!
Just thought of a good idea: because I can’t imagine the Assassin spending much time in a city like the previous games, I think it would be more like the Kingdom area in the Original, and if so, you should be able to climb trees, sit/hang on a branch, and either shoot (if we have rifles), or wait for your target to walk below you and strike. I’d love to shoot guards from a tree.
What do you think?
everyone,assassins creed 3 WILL conclude desmond’s story.where it’s set,how the mechanics change and what else will happen i don’t know yet,but this is desmond’s last game.though that doesn’t mean it’s the last assassins creed game.like ubisoft says history is their playground
OMFG another AC cant fucking belive it ,,,,,, Vittoria Agli Assassini !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i want an AC in africa i want to kill some fucking lions!
I saw this coming ever since the end of ACB. the symbols that Shaun pointed out were big giveaways, lets hope they bring in a new mechanic, I’d like to see how they change the combat system, since I very doubt there will be many sword fights now.
I totally agree with aguywithabeard as a citizen of the province of québec who live at 3 hours of the studio of ubisoft montréal I kind of fucking know my history of north America and let me say that I’m fucking tired of all those game who choose to set the story in the USA.There is so much more interesting places in the world.I really like assassin’s creed and seriously I think it would be a dick move from ubisoft to do that and everyone know that the history of north America is quite poor.I’m sorry if I offended someone but I don’t want to see this and what is scary is that ubisoft is playing with history here so it’s quite touchy .Also machinima …this rumor is old from 2009 go to ubisoft forum and look for people who voted for the next installement location and you will see that everything reliated to north america doesn’t have a lot of vote.again I’m sorry for what I said but ac franchise is quite special to my eye and it’s probably is for everyone else here.This franchise need an awesome epic of epicness story and ending.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Am I the only one who doesn’t like this,AC needs to be with swords and not with guns.
I actually wanted the AC3 in ancient Rome.
Problem is, we’ve spent so much time in that setting. It’s time for AC to branch out and attempt something new environmentally, or it will risk playing too safe.
I think an Assassins Creed set in england with Charles Darwin as a sort of Da Vinci character would be good….
Well I don’t think it’s be a good thing to set it in the American revolution
I mean why? And how will u carry it out?
And wat is in the north that would carry the storyline to north america
I mean George Washington didn’t use the apple of eden to become president?
Or did he? Muahahahahaha lol but seriously though why?
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Not only do I think it would have been cooler to have a Russian assassin, mostly for the Russian accent and snowy world (RUSSIAN WINTER!), but I would have hosted the game at an EVEN LATER date. If we HAVE to do this in the Americas or something, industrial revolution all the way. Ubisoft is obviously using this game as more of a platform final test. They’re trying to figure out how to modernize Assassin’s Creed, and stick Desmond into his role as the full time protagonist in one of the future games. Either way, I would’ve preferred Russia OR the industrial revolution. Not both, because Russia did not industrialize until much later.
You all are terrible with your history. You all realize there were established cities with tall buildings at that time, right? Boston was basically the center of all activity and would make for great parkour. Also the riflemen were called ‘minutemen’ because it usually took over a minute to reload your gun after ONE shot. You’re telling me there’s no opening for sword play there? Think sword versus bayonette.
Also I doubt you’ll be on the front lines. Hell, the assassin we play as could even be sent to France at some point to convince them to support the revolutionaries. Right there you have an opportunity for Paris.
Finally, you all realize that the game is headed to eventually have us play as Desmond in modern America, right? This is the perfect introduction and slow conversion of controls from ancient times to modern times. I’m guessing the subsequent games after AC3 (IE Brotherhood, Revelations) will show America enter the Industrial Era and honestly I can’t think of a better setting for parkour then industrial America.
Just trust the storytellers. They have yet to let us down. :)
That’s not the reason for the name ‘minutemen’. It came from the expectation that the men would be assembled and ready for combat within one minute after being called upon.
From an assassin’s viewpoint, you’d think the French revolution would be a better fit for AC3.
It would be awesome to be the Russian assassins in the comics
Phew, if this actually happened, it’d be a huge relief. I couldn’t have taken an Assassin’s Creed game based on China/Japan/Asia. I’ve had enough of that bullcrap.
@Ikillu123 Lol, that’d be hilarious; assassins jumping around, dancing, drunk from vodka. xD
When are they gonna nut up and put a russian assassin?!
awesome.. just awesome.. cant wait to play as desmond properly.. hope he doesnt look wierd like on revelations though, dont know what happened there :/
If Assassin’s Creed 3 will be released in 2012 then it will be the best game of the year!
No not the Chinese dynasty’s, ubisoft wanted events that really impacted the entire world, for hundreds of years china did not even know of the existence of the outside. I think they should have chosen the fall of the roman empire cause back then everybody was shocked when the strongest empire in the known world fell
No. It is not. That was only a test free game version. The series wouldn’t work in America because the Americans won their freedom from the occupying transoceanic aliens from which they did not come. The Americans had KILLERS. Infinitely better than assassins. They never interbred with aliens like the brits but “became” them via military espionage. Americans are genetically a much different species of humans than asians. Americans and asians are not connected at all. This game was very poorly planned, researched and designed from the beginning and fans have been telling ubi this all along. It’s not their fault ubi never listens to fans.