Assassin’s Creed III DLC Has Evil George Washington

Also, I really hope this "oh it's alternate timelines" is bullshit damage control, because I'm like, 95% sure that Washington is canonically an Abstergo ancestor.

Also, not gonna lie, that would've been the perfect final boss. Get to the end of the Revolution, oh shit George Washington has declared himself God Emperor of Mankind, time to have a fistfight on top of the roof of the White House.

@Jakobi said:

Get ready for Fox News outrage in 3....2....1....

No way, its going to be delayed several months like their Mass Effect is porn coverage.

cool idea. I'm definitely up for playing something like this. That concept art sure is awesome.

@Jakobi said:

Get ready for Fox News outrage in 3....2....1....

I'd say that's crazy (I've read a book about time travelers giving AK-47's to the south during the Civil war for eff's sake.) but Whenever I think that I'm surprised by what they'll pick a fight about.

Hopefully real presidential politics will keep their attention.

Get ready for Fox News outrage in 3....2....1....

@Animasta said:

I am american, and as Americans it is our duty to recognize that Washington was an asshole. yes, he founded our country, that's all well and good, but come on.

I don't want to assume you're as bad of a person as this statement makes you out to be, but I'll just chalk it up to ignorance. I'm not sure what shady professor or crazy relative or overbearingly activist friend convinced you that what you said is the case, but a basic high-school education and a rudimentary glance at some historical facts paints a pretty clear picture of who Washington was and the kind of contrast Ubisoft is attempting to draw.

His military strategies put an emphasis on morale. He immediately resigned from the military at the close of the war rather than exercise any sort of control. He advocated US neutrality over holding grudges or immediately adopting stances that could threaten safety and stability in such a nation in its infancy. His dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation led to his spearheading the creation of the Constitution. His vehement disapproval of lavish royal titles for the country's elected chief executive and subsequent avoidance of the issue led to the finalization of the Title of Nobility Clause and the almost exclusive use of the simple term "Mr. President." The rest of the Framers simply assumed he would be the first president, and he was elected in a walkover. He served his second term reluctantly and refused a third. His final will freed all of his slaves.

There's a reason he continues to inspire people even outside the borders of the United States, though I'm sure you're unaware. Almost no revolutionary leader in history has demonstrated as much restraint and good judgment as he did.

@Edmundus said:

This is actually a very interesting concept for an alt-history DLC, as a few people whispered suggestions that it would make for a stronger America to have Washington as its king, and later many feared that he would become a monarch in all but name once he became president.

He was too noble to consider that of course, but he was an excellent political player, and so that makes the scenario of 'what if he was evil' potentially very fun.

The concept of the Americas having a king was even seriously considered. We didn't break away from England because of the king, we did it because we had to voice in the government. If the US had split federal power between a king and congress that would have solved the revolutionaries' complaints and showed that the US is a proper European style nation and not a band of rabble rousers.

Im jumping on these Bandwagon QUICK!!! Ubisoft is Beast

@xaveri said:

So, no DLC for PC?

Not really sure I get the whole "Evil Washington" angle, but glad to see someone posted that YouTube video in here.

Bad-ass

King George of these United States.....Has a nice ring to it, I have to admit. And that poster is awesome. Reminds me of the Fable 3 ones.

"King Washington" sounds horrible - too many "ing" syllables in close proximity. I suppose he would've just gone by "King George I of America" ... and now I've thought about this far too much.

@onan said:

Whenever they announce something like this, unless I'm frothing at the mouth for the game, it just means I'm going to wait for the GOTY edition where all this nonsense gets bundled up and I don't have to spend extra money for an unfinished product.

This logic works even better for PC, because you have to wait until the DRM has been stripped out of it and the game doesn't quit to desktop every time Ubisoft's servers get DDoSed.

@onan said:

Whenever they announce something like this, unless I'm frothing at the mouth for the game, it just means I'm going to wait for the GOTY edition where all this nonsense gets bundled up and I don't have to spend extra money for an unfinished product.

This logic works even better for PC, because you have to wait until the DRM has been stripped out of it and the game doesn't quit to desktop every time Ubisoft's servers get DDoSed.

Whenever they announce something like this, unless I'm frothing at the mouth for the game, it just means I'm going to wait for the GOTY edition where all this nonsense gets bundled up and I don't have to spend extra money for an unfinished product.

@Terramagi said:

@Snail: Safe answer is "no", because PC gamers are pirate scum and will be wiped out completely in the next console generation.

If you were being sarcastic then it became much less evident with the latter statement of your sentence.

@daggon55 said:

Andrew Jackson, that guy was an asshole.

Word up.

@Snail:

Safe answer is "no", because PC gamers are pirate scum and will be wiped out completely in the next console generation.

Will the season pass be available on Steam? Assuming the game will be on Steam.

Oh boy, I can't wait until Ubisoft's offices are hit by a drone missile.

@jamesisaacs said:

That picture looks Fables-ish.

I was thinking more Bioshock Infinite, but I can see where the "Fable" idea comes from.

@sixpin said:

History has plenty of villains without making our heroes into them as well.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Some of the opinions in this thread sadden me deeply, there's plenty of American History worthy of our cynicism, but George Washington is not one of those things.

This sounds amazing

I had damn well better be able to name my Assassin "Hans Sprungfeld."

That's pretty sweet. I love it when developers "go off the deep end" and do alternate universes. The more obscure, the better! Not to mention, that poster art looks absolutely amazing.

I love alternative history stuff! This seems pretty cool.

This is actually a very interesting concept for an alt-history DLC, as a few people whispered suggestions that it would make for a stronger America to have Washington as its king, and later many feared that he would become a monarch in all but name once he became president.

He was too noble to consider that of course, but he was an excellent political player, and so that makes the scenario of 'what if he was evil' potentially very fun.

But as others have said, this series isn't known for its subtlety. We'll probably just have some piece-of-eden-corruption setup, followed by him kicking dudes apart while riding a crystal horse.

Man they took one look at the evil George Washing robot in BioShock: Infinite and said "Fuck! Why didn't we think of that."

Dude, this "What if" kind of scenario is WAY cooler than the actual faux-history of the games!

Regardless, I'm really cold on AC3 for some reason. I think I'll wait for some kind of GOTY edition (which I almost never do, or say before a game comes out, because I invariably end up buying it. Don't make a liar out of me, me.)

I like this. I like the idea of mainline AC being historically accurate with their own fictional figure and mythology dropped into it, with wilder "what if" scenarios as DLC. I really hope this is the beginning of more such content for the series.

@jakkblades said:

This is the equivalent of Medal of Honor having Bin Laden death mission-inspired levels for sale as DLC.

I'm not seeing the connection other than they're both DLC.

I dig it.

Not really surprise if this is "canon" since Assassin Creed 2 establish George Washington having a piece of eden.

@sissylion said:

@SamDrugbringer: I'm not going to get into this debate because it is dumb, but I will say that Washington was a super shitty military leader. He only worked as a figurehead, and if the Continental Army had more men than the British did he still probably could have found a way to fuck it up.

Based on what?

Of course he wasn't perfect, but he was still a good military leader, especially fighting the British who had some of the most experienced and decorated generals in the world. He was no Alexander or Genghis, but nobody is alleging he is.

So after all that crap about being historically accurate, they throw it out the window for DLC? What?

Neat idea. I like it when dlc steps out the main story to do something cool like this.

@chilibean_3: I heard that motherfucker had like 30 goddamn dicks.

He'll save the children but not the British children.

@pw2566ch said:

This DLC actually sounds pretty awesome. As for getting 5 expansions within 6 months, I think that's too much. That leaves little room to work on the expansions and make sure nothing goes wrong.

Not really. The little insight i've learned over the years into game development makes me feel safe in assuming core AC3 is already done and wrapped and now their working on this stuff. Plus ubisoft is known for dividing this kind of work between multiple studios.

Pretty ballsy move to make the biggest American icon into a villain. It almost makes me want to get the game to see how they pull it off, haha.

@xaveri said:

So, no DLC for PC?

That's what it looked like to me too. We all know Ubisoft hates PC owners personally, since we are all pirates and whatnot.

@SamDrugbringer: I'm not going to get into this debate because it is dumb, but I will say that Washington was a super shitty military leader. He only worked as a figurehead, and if the Continental Army had more men than the British did he still probably could have found a way to fuck it up.

@Orange_Pork: King George Washington beats President John Adams any day of the week

I really enjoy the Assassin's Creed games, but I'm not interested in this evil George Washington DLC at all. History has plenty of villains without making our heroes into them as well.

@Veektarius: Why wouldn't you want to kill Evil George Washington?

Ummm what? This is just bizarre. Could be interesting though...

@jakkblades: No. No, it really isn't. Alternate versions of events that happened a few centuries earlier aren't anything like missions taking place where a terrorist was killed within the past few years.