Ubisoft Responds to Assassin's Creed III Leaks by Just Up and Revealing its Cover Art [UPDATED]

@evanbower: He dresses like an assassin, Altair dressed in white robes too, it's just the robes of the order.

@CrimsonAvenger said:

@Remonster said:

@Nate: He doesn't have to be a descendant of Ezio, He simply needs to be an ancestor of Desmond. It's called a family tree, not the family pole. It has many branches, not just one big straight line.

I'm amazed at peoples inability to grasp this simple concept.

Since when does the new assassin have to be related to Desmond? In the comic Assassin's Creed: The Fall, the story has nothing to do with Desmond and focuses on a character named Peter Cross and his ancestor Nikolai Orelov; and Cross isn't related in any way to Desmond.

Also, he HAS the be a direct descendant of ezio and altair

The character even looks like the same model they always use.

Edit: Actually fuck what I wrote here,

Please please please tell me that, at some point in this game, you get to use The Turtle.

Can't wait to learn that Benjamin Franklin secretly invented the hand grenade.

I skipped Revelations because I was burned out on the setting, so I'm really glad to see they're moving things forward this time. This news has me more excited about a Assassin's Creed game than I've been in a long while (although feudal Japan would have had me even more excited).

@Kevin_Cogneto said:

Can't wait to learn that Benjamin Franklin secretly invented the hand grenade.

Oh God, that's TOTALLY going to happen. >_<

@AngelN7 said:

@Slaker117: it seems that before was "Italians killing other Italians" so people didn't care but now they see it as "American vs British" and both sides are getting angry at who the new "Ezio" is gonna be killing.

Most Italians don't have a problem with Rodrigo Borgia being a villain. The problem with this setting is that you either has american patriots as villains (and summon the rage of Fox News audience) or you don't (and the game will suffer for it, since they adhere to the shallow good vs bad guys perspective of history).

I think having both sides as enemies is the best course of action, bolder, and more in line with previous games... but it can also be a PR nightmare in the US market I am not sure Ubisoft is willing to enter.

@ptys said:

@Aforgomon said:

@ptys said:

That's actually pretty cool! Trust the Europeans to find the best parts of American history, LOL.

AC games are developed in Montreal.

Eh, Canada, France same diff, LOL. Perhaps even the ideal setup to view from a far.

I'm fascinated by the American Indians, I want to use a tomahawk on one of those Yankee mo-fo's... no offence.

You just said LOL, Indian, mo-fo, a far, and offence. And you don't know where Montreal is. I know where I'd like to put a tomahawk right about now...

@evanbower: what about Amerigo Vespucci? he could have come over from any number of explorers and just settled down with the simpler life and gotten some American Indian blood in his descendants veins.

I'm not sure the Revolution era America will be as interesting as Renaissance Italy, but we'll just have to wait and see.

I've got a revolutionary boner from this article.

No American should get bent out of shape by how they are portrayed in media. It doesn't bother me for one, I am not the people who came before me. But also because of how other nationalities so frequently get portrayed in the media over here, it would be so hypocritical.

This is an awesome setting, cannot wait

@hermes said:

@AngelN7 said:

@Slaker117: it seems that before was "Italians killing other Italians" so people didn't care but now they see it as "American vs British" and both sides are getting angry at who the new "Ezio" is gonna be killing.

Most Italians don't have a problem with Rodrigo Borgia being a villain. The problem with this setting is that you either has american patriots as villains (and summon the rage of Fox News audience) or you don't (and the game will suffer for it, since they adhere to the shallow good vs bad guys perspective of history).

I think having both sides as enemies is the best course of action, bolder, and more in line with previous games... but it can also be a PR nightmare in the US market I am not sure Ubisoft is willing to enter.

This is a series wherein you fight the goddamn Pope as an end boss. It doesn't seem like they're too worried about ruffling a few feathers.

If this game ends with you teaming up with Benedict Arnold to defeat the secret Templar mastermind Thomas Jefferson in the middle of the Continental Congress, it wouldn't surprise me.

You know, i'm actually kind of happy be able to say this:

Every time i think i'm out they pull me back in!

Seriously, i thought i could be done with AC after i finish revelations, but the Revolutionary War? I have to get it.

I'm forever annoyed at Ubisoft for these games. They vividly recreate Medieval Jerusalem and Renaissance Rome against the backdrop of such engaging political and religious turmoil/intrigue, then crap some dollar store Da Vinci Code knockoff of a story onto it. I suspect they'll do the same to yet ANOTHER formative period in history with this one. I don't want to come across as some history purist, and I know these are only games, but seriously, the history is so scandalous and exciting that they don't need to add to it. You just "can't write this stuff." I would have loved these games if they got rid of the Animus, the Apple, etc., and taken the right amount of liberties in showing the evolution of this secretive Assassin's guild through the ages (with, of course, less Dan Brown and more originality).

I'm just a little disappointed that they didn't go 100% awesome and have you play as a female character. Nonetheless, this has me stoked.

Seems awesome to me.

Question for the community:I haven't yet completed ASII. Is there anything in Brotherhood and Revelations that is necessary to continue the main story, or will I be able to jump straight from II to III?

@Aforgomon said:

@ptys said:

That's actually pretty cool! Trust the Europeans to find the best parts of American history, LOL.

AC games are developed in Montreal.

Eh, Canada, France same diff, LOL. Perhaps even the ideal setup to view from a far.

I'm fascinated by the American Indians, I want to use a tomahawk on one of those Yankee mo-fo's... no offence.

I'm so glad those leaked pics weren't a rumor, actually can't wait for this game now!

I give them credit that it is a cool setting and seems to be very different than the other games as far as style and landscapes but i'm really close to being done with them stringing this along. Revelations was very disappointing in the overall story department and i don't see how this connects with anything.

I can't wait to scalp some of those British Red Coat SOB's, am I right fellas?!?!

This is a great revelation.

That actually looks pretty cool. I still haven't played Brotherhood or Revelations simply because of the whole "more of the same" feeling it had to ACII, but I might have to pick ACIII up on release.

@Jaytow said:

Yeah, the Americans fighting against Britain were actually natives. They had nothing to do with colonisation at all.

LOL

Mind blown.

Sounds cool. Hopefully they don't make this one a trilogy like they did with Ezio.

As much as I understand the integral part the hood and cloak play in the series I think they should really drop it in favor of going with the aesthetics of the time period. I like that he's wearing a suit underneath and it all resembles a jacket but that hood is so out of place now. I thought Ezio already looked completely out of place in his getups, but it might be just me. The cloak and hood looked perfect on Altaïr as everyone wore robes in his era but later on the outfits got a bit too convoluted for my tastes.

@Kyle said:

@ptys said:

@Aforgomon said:

@ptys said:

That's actually pretty cool! Trust the Europeans to find the best parts of American history, LOL.

AC games are developed in Montreal.

Eh, Canada, France same diff, LOL. Perhaps even the ideal setup to view from a far.

I'm fascinated by the American Indians, I want to use a tomahawk on one of those Yankee mo-fo's... no offence.

You just said LOL, Indian, mo-fo, a far, and offence. And you don't know where Montreal is. I know where I'd like to put a tomahawk right about now...

Ok?.. Take it easy, just a bit of fun.

@Rirse said:

Better have Ben Franklin be your "Q" character.

Aw man, having Franklin replace Leo DaVinci would be absolutely perfect. They surely must do this.

Cool. I wonder if this game will be banned in the UK? Ha ha.

Between this game and BioShock Infinite, its a great time to be an early American in games!

@jakkblades: How so? The Assassins are all over the world. Altair wasn't Italian, nor were the assassins in Constantinople. It's very plausible that the main character is 100% Native American.

@MarkWahlberg said:

Benedict Arnold is a Templar, Paul Rivere is an Assassin, Benjamin Franklin designs your gadgets and the Boston Tea Party was just a distraction for what *really* happened.

Nah, Arnold ought to be an Assassin given how history (and his opponents at the time) crapped all over him continuously. He ought to be portrayed as an Assassin who either gets suckered by the Templars into switching sides or he discovers dangerous Templar influence in the American forces, which makes him switch sides in spite of the negative consequences for him. That's be far more complex and interesting that his straight-up demonisation.

Great choice for a new setting in Assassins Creed.

Wow, that Gameinformer cover looks great. I might consider picking one up.

The art in the second GI cover looks decent. The first one looks dumb as shit.

@Unequivocable: When did they allude to New England in ACR?

Also, love all the retards already up in arms and bitching and moaning and condeming a game that so far all they have seen is two pieces of art. lol gb community.

The craziest thing so far to me about this is that there was another pictured that showed the assassin with George Washington crossing a river but he is a Templar so what the hell is going on?

That looks amazing.

@hermes said:

Most Italians don't have a problem with Rodrigo Borgia being a villain. The problem with this setting is that you either has american patriots as villains (and summon the rage of Fox News audience) or you don't (and the game will suffer for it, since they adhere to the shallow good vs bad guys perspective of history).

I think having both sides as enemies is the best course of action, bolder, and more in line with previous games... but it can also be a PR nightmare in the US market I am not sure Ubisoft is willing to enter.

Borgia wasn't Italian, mind: he was Catalan. With you on having good and bad on both sides. Frankly, that's the only sensible way to go about it. Setting this in the French Revolution would've been a much safer choice on Ubisoft's part!

Can't care about a once-a-year franchise.

I Am ENGORGED!!!! I am pretty sick of Ezio. I played 2 hours of Revelations and gave up, they added too many new elements that were so weak. i am so excited for this!!!

WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Its TRUE!!!!!!!

This is gonna be fucking awesome! And oh fucking hell yea tomahawk! But no hidden blade...?

I very much like the setting: American War of Independence is a fascinating period of history. Ubisoft are still on my blacklist though.

That is so damn cool.

@Humanity said:

As much as I understand the integral part the hood and cloak play in the series I think they should really drop it in favor of going with the aesthetics of the time period. I like that he's wearing a suit underneath and it all resembles a jacket but that hood is so out of place now. I thought Ezio already looked completely out of place in his getups, but it might be just me. The cloak and hood looked perfect on Altaïr as everyone wore robes in his era but later on the outfits got a bit too convoluted for my tastes.

I concur. An assassin should blend in.

Underground Railroad escort mission. *mic drop*