Assassin's Creed 3 setting revealed?

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:55 am

I'm interested

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:53 am

360 · Post by **360** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:05 pm

Knew it was going to be either the French or American revolution. Next logical
step, historically. Of course, that is when you omit eastern culture. A 16th century Japanese setting would be make our heads explode,though, which can't be healthy.

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:10 pm

Positive A · Post by **Positive A** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:07 pm

Never judge a book by its cover, but fuck, I'm sold.

an-also · Post by **an-also** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:30 pm

How was the last game? I got bored of assasins creed 1 in a few days.

darkwingduck · Post by **darkwingduck** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:04 pm

an-also wrote:How was the last game? I got bored of assasins creed 1 in a few days.

AC2 was much better than the OG. Cant speak on any of the once beyond 2.

Sigma · Post by **Sigma** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:16 pm

an-also wrote:How was the last game? I got bored of assasins creed 1 in a few days.

2 is much better than 1, as darkwingduck said.

Brotherhood is an overall better game than 2 IMO, but I preferred the story in 2.

Revelations tried a few new things and overall I think it's up there with the previous games, but there weren't any huge changes to the gameplay and the changes that were made were hit and miss IMO.

If you're going to play another one, I would start with AC2 as that's the first game where you play as Ezio Auditore and his story is continued in the following 2 games.

ric · Post by **ric** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:47 pm

was hoping for asia. you can do so much more with an asian experience.
that said am. revolution, as a setting, is pretty sweet. in terms of story it seems fairly masturbatory. oh look, the assassin does cool stuff to help george washingtons improbable crawl to first victory. oh look, john adams and thomas jefferson are influenced by assassin ideals. oh look, the struggle continues into the year 2012 (which does open it up for some sweet desmond action though)

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:52 pm

Positive A · Post by **Positive A** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:55 pm

Awesome. The settings, as per usual, look to be the star again.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:29 pm

Can't wait.

ric · Post by **ric** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 4:02 pm

shit looks righteous. i dont like how everyone and their mother has a musket though. still

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:29 pm

-Want it to be a jumping on point for new players without losing touch with what longtime fans cherish most.
-New hero called Connor/Ratohnhake:ton (pronounced Ra-doon-ha-gay-doo). He has an English father and Native American mother.
-More details about the protagonist/scenarios: You will experience Conner's childhood on the American frontier as he is raised by the Mohawk. The Mohawk eventually clash with white colonists who burn their village down, causing Connor to dedicate his life to confront tyranny and injustice.
-A new traversal approach that has players leaping and climbing trees and mountain cliffs.
-Uses a new version of the Anvil engine that can "depict thousands of troops engaged in bloody battle" along with highly detailed face close-ups. They later imply that if they used version numbers, they would be like going from Anvil 1.0 -> Anvil 2.0 or something of that nature.
-Judging by the images, the faces really are quite good.
-Combat is focused on putting you on the offensive and based on speed/momentum.
-The main character has thousands of new and unique animations (no carry over from other titles) to support the new combat system.
-Character details:
-George Washington: Interacting with Washington is one of the core relationships of the game.
-Benjamin Franklin: He's not a convenient inventor a la Da Vinci.
-Charles Lee: His role is a mystery.
-The game is set between the years 1753-1783 and is centered around the cities of Boston and New York.
-"It's not just going to a historical building now; it's going to a historical event."
-Event examples: "You will see the great fire of New York. You will visit Valley Forge as a location that is currently occupied by Washington's forces. You will visit these places in the moment that they were important, and hopefully, experience the reason why we know where they are today. That's the goal."
-Connor is in the heart of major battles, and they can now have a couple thousand guys on screen, whereas before it was capped at about 100.
-The overall story is still centered around the Assassins versus the Templars and Connor's journey.
-Not all the Colonists will be cast as good people, and not all the British will be cast as evil oppressors. They're trying to focus on how both the Assassins and Templars viewpoints exist in a gray morality as the Templars really believe they're saving the world.
-The French and Native Americans will also feature in the game, as was probably really obvious.
-The modern day stuff relates to that location in New York at the end of Revelations.
-There will be all sorts of wilderness in the game referred to as the Frontier.
-The map of the Frontier is 1.5 times bigger than the entire map of Brotherhood.
-The Frontier is not empty like in Assassin's Creed 1, but features a third of the game's missions and gameplay content.
-You can hunt animals for resources, and how you kill them effects your reward. A one hit kill on a bear gets you a much more valuable pelt than stabbing it eight times.
-The wilderness traversal plays a big part in the gameplay in the Frontier, allowing you to use trees, cliffs, ledges, and more to set up kills and combat.
-Connor does have a hidden blade.
-The world changes as time passes, so a field where a battle happened in one year may just be a series of empty encampments a few months later.
-The entire world will change with seasons, so the cities and the wilderness will all exist in both Summer and Winter settings.
-In the winter, soldiers will move slowly and stumble about in the snow, and lakes and rivers will freeze over allowing you new terrain to work with. This gives Connor an extra advantage since he can still use the trees and wilderness pretty effectively during this time of year.
-There are all sorts of clubs and groups who want you to join and give you quests. These are separate from the mission system. These clubs will contact you based on what you do in the game. For example, hunting a lot will get you an invitation to the hunting society.
-There will be a goods based economy, a new property system, and more Desmond stuff.
-There's going to be some new puzzle thing like the first person Tetris.
-There's a new Animus database known as Animus 3.0.
-They're not unveiling anything about the multiplayer yet.
-There will be more platforming levels.
-Full synchronization returns, but with major tweaks. Missions have checkpoints, You also get significant rewards for doing these tasks instead of a 100%. "Imagine a leveling system in an RPG, except there's a finite amount of XP to find. The more in-sync you get, the more you fill your sync bar. Within each mission, each activity you complete has a value". You can replay everything to increase your score.
-They imply there is something resembling the Brotherhood system of picking up fellow assassins.
-Aligned groups are gone, but something new is replacing them in regards to factions. They don't say what.
-There's a new notoriety system that is more hidden and doesn't penalize you for exploring risky areas.
-The game has fast travel because the game has more traveling.
-Don't expect more tower defense.
-You can upgrade Connor's gear and costume as the game goes on in an attempt to make it feel more authentic.
-The cities have a lot more subtle detail now in terms of ambient things that happen.
-You can now leap over wagons or slide under obstacles, including navigating over and around moving objects. The free running stuff also has you jumping through windows to trees and then on top of church roofs. Basically, expect the free running stuff, but more fluid and presumably generally closer to the ground.
-Connor enters battle with two weapons. The game uses the same controls in and out of battle.
-The tomahawk and knife are a "constant presence" in battle. They also let you do double counters and multiple takedowns, and you can chain kills.
-There's no more target locking, it just automatically detects your target. Counter/defense are the same button to prevent turtling.
-You can use human shields and other context sensitive moves.
-They want you to constantly move in battle.
-There are lots of secondary attacks like the one shot pistol on the Y button.
-There's a new dynamic camera to track the action and make it look as cinematic as possible.
-There is a new sprinting system also, so you can hold the button to instantly turn around and start fleeing from combat. They also let you kill people while still moving so you can keep chasing a target. They kind of imply you can even leap off of them after you kill them, though I'm not sure if that makes you faster or just doesn't impede your movement.
-They really, really, really want you to constantly move. I mean like they say this every four sentences. Not just in battle, but in every section of the game.
-They also try to keep you more in control of the combat than ever before.
-Game Informer really loves their animation system.
-There are around 2.5 hours of character scenes in the game that are fully acted and recorded. They mean this in Naughty Dog style where they have the actors being mocaped while performing on a set that resembles the scene in the game.
-They're aiming for accuracy by having historical dialog consultants and actual Native American actors.
-This game has the longest development cycle since AC1, and has twice the production capacity (in terms of work hours) and budget of Revelations.
-They want the game to feel like AC3.5, and the game will have its first version complete in just a few more weeks, at which point they're going to spend the rest of their time refining it

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 5:14 am

I would be perfectly happy if they completely wrote off Desmond to be honest.

an-also · Post by **an-also** » Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:27 pm

Screens look amazing.

Sigma · Post by **Sigma** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:52 pm

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:58 pm

Oh yeah, definitely buying this.

Dragondude R · Post by **Dragondude R** » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:02 pm

Spartan wrote:I would be perfectly happy if they completely wrote off Desmond to be honest.

Haven't played Revelations or Brotherhood, but I'm still a fan on AC, especially since this already sounds cool

Bornfresh · Post by **Bornfresh** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:34 pm

Wow! I thought they were gonna do Japan next. Oh well... this looks dope.

hustler · Post by **hustler** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:52 pm

its not out for another 8 months? I just saw a commercial on tv for this. damn they must be really pushing for those pre-orders.

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 5:24 pm

ric · Post by **ric** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:46 pm

that is so fucking sick. if they change the line of sight rules so that you can actually hide behind stuff, environment will be fucking great.

Positive A · Post by **Positive A** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:14 pm

Goddamn.

LameAim · Post by **LameAim** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:46 am

Bornfresh wrote:Wow! I thought they were gonna do Japan next. Oh well... this looks dope.

They still can. I'd love to see one of these based around the transition between the Edo and Mejii periods. Shit would be killer.

Anyway, these shots look dope as fuck.

Sucka Ducka · Post by **Sucka Ducka** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 11:10 pm

I never finished the first one although I've been meaning to, although I didn't love it-- I keep hearing the 2nd one and brotherhood are better though so I might have to pick them up used - or I might just wait and pick this up, looks pretty ill.

Truth. · Post by **Truth.** » Fri May 11, 2012 1:48 am

ric · Post by **ric** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:15 pm

end of the month i think right?
pre ordered my shit months ago.
this and the last of us and ncaa 13 are pretty much the only games i give a flying fuck about

Psychosis · Post by **Psychosis** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:06 am

I'm unsure of this one. I own every game in the series and loved part 2 & Brotherhood, but I haven't brought myself to finish Revelations. It's too much of the same formula; it had gotten stale.

ric · Post by **ric** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:54 pm

i loved the core mechanics. honestly #1 is the best to me because of the feel and i actually feel like exploring is way more encouraged in the first one. in the subsequent games exploration is all about finding treasure and shit but in the first - being much more of an investigative game - exploring is how you find shit out. this may be partly due to the fact that i play #1 with whats been called the 'hardcore' settings which were supposedly how the game was initially designed until the last couple months (when they supposedly added the mini map)

the game plays smoother and has all these great features but i think its lost something that #1 was so fucking good at. i dont feel like an assassin when im throwing 5 cherry bombs and setting a bunch of gas bombs and shit. while cool, that is not some 'go into any situation with your bare hands and a couple blades' type shit.

they never really developed solid hiding mechanics, which is a huge failure for what might be the greatest next gen series until the next set of consoles.

anyway theres only like a week more to wait. shit will be sweet, even if it is more action oriented than i would like.

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