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

This could work. It's certainly a very underused setting in video games.

Surprised this turned out to be legit, but pleasantly so.

Had some concerns about the setting in terms of supporting the gameplay. But I'm sure they'll pull it off.

Interested to see how they handle it, but I assume they'll have you killing Templars on all sides (ala AC 1), probably with a conspiracy plot about keeping the war going to destabilise both America and the British Empire or some such.

Excited about it, even though I know little of that part of American history.

I'm really excited about this new setting. Looking forward to October 30th.

What a dumb idea. Just get to fucking Desmond already.

FUUUUUCK Yes!

Should have made it in the 1600s in the Caribbean. Jungles, beaches, and pirates... Still looks intriguing with the revolutionary war though.

@JasonR86 said:

What a dumb idea. Just get to fucking Desmond already.

You seriously can't be THAT interested in Desmond. Just be happy it's a new setting and it isn't a fucking Ezio spin off again. Maybe the gameplay will be different, who knows. Sounds better then a reskinned Ezio running around New York, at least to me.

I liked The Patriot too, strangely enough. Although, I haven't seen it since it was in theaters ( a damn long time ago) and I was probably twelve or something, but I have fond memories of Mel Gibson going overkill with tomahawks, protecting his sons or some shit. I think that was a Roland Emmerich movie, and in my opinion maybe his only good movie. I mean he did Godzilla (1998), Independence Day, etc. etc., I think 2012, just anything involving the whole world blowing up or being eaten that totally sucked was his fault.

Dope.

I hope it's not just killing Redcoats in the name of America. The Americans fucked over natives WAY more than the British.

AMERICA!!!

I am excited by this, Artwork is very evocative, wierd that so many predictions and wishes were so on the money..

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! OH MY GOD YES!!!!!!!!!

This is so fucking awesome!! If this has anything to do with Ubisoft Montréal I'm going to flip! Talk about unfulfilled fantasies...

Live Free or Die Motherfuckers!!!!

@talideon said:

Setting this in the French Revolution would've been a much safer choice on Ubisoft's part!

That'll be Assassin's Creed 3-2. Experience the ongoing story of Native American Assassin Guy!

This game looks like the tits

Now THAT'S something new. Oooh yeah!

Also, this has prompted me to buy AC:R while it was on sale on Steam. I hope I enjoy it.

Ok, maybe I am interested in Assassin's Creed again. Even after they burnt me out with the last one. If they really want to make my day they will make one set in industrial revolution London. You could get in a fight with jack the ripper and wear a top hat.

Also, cane-sword.

I like how the tomahawk is shaped like the Assassin A symbol.

There was a pretty interesting History Channel documentary a while back about the Knights Templar in America. You all should give it a watch, but the basic premise is that some of the Templars fled to America before it was colonized.

I'm pretty psyched for this.

The transition from the classical Assassins to the Free Masons should be interesting to see. Tonally, I'm sort of hoping for The Patriot meets Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver.

And, given the implication that the Mayan death-clock is based on the alien tombs, we might get to see how those tombs impacted the native cultures of the Americas. I've seen a lot of people crowing about how this can't be anything but, "YAY AMERICA!" or, "Hey, we're super sorry white people are evil, Native Americans," as far as the story goes. Luckily, history is never that simple.

The American Revolution caused a lot of turmoil in the native tribes. Some wanted to remain neutral, some joined the British and Loyalists to stem Colonial expansion, and some had even built cultural ties to the Colonists and joined them. My guess is that our new protagonist is from one of the Iroquois tribes that sided with the Colonists (and probably a halfy, at that. Gotta cross with Desmond's bloodline, after all).

Finally, I totally dig that tomahawk shaped like the Assassins compass.

@Zacagawea said:

@JasonR86 said:

What a dumb idea. Just get to fucking Desmond already.

You seriously can't be THAT interested in Desmond. Just be happy it's a new setting and it isn't a fucking Ezio spin off again. Maybe the gameplay will be different, who knows. Sounds better then a reskinned Ezio running around New York, at least to me.

Here's the entire point for the series. The gimmick of 'learning through others' is growing really, really old. If they want to relive other's lives they need to come up with a better excuse then Desmond. For Desmond, though, they need to end his story and let him get into the action. The structure is really, really old at this point.

Dude, yes. I dropped off the Assassin's Creed bandwagon after the first one, but this... this has renewed my interest.

Finally, a change of setting I can get behind. Really looking forward to seeing how this pans out.

I want someone to turn that box art into a 1920x1080 wallpaper with their artistic skills. I would be grateful.

@RollingZeppelin: Except this game takes place nearly a hundred years before the worst of that.

Oh hell yes.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@nERVEcenter: I'm just saying, it's kinda like a big middle finger to Natives to have the main character helping a nation that practically wiped them off the map, even if it's set before the worst of it.

AMERICA FUCK YEA! all kidding aside this new setting is very exciting for me and this is from someone that never played any creed game. I will buy this game for setting alone hope it can deliver what it is promising

No way lol

@talideon said:

@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.

But having him be evil - or at least constantly exasperated by the good guys - would be funnier? I dunno, I was going more for what I expect out of this than what I'd actually like to happen.

Finally out of crappy boring Italy and straight into some yankee, redneck bashing!

I'M CANADIAN AND I WANT THIS SO BAD

FU Alex for dissing The Patriot.

I find American history to be very uninteresting. Probably because it is familiar whereas I have little knowledge of older history settings and they seem so much more fascinating because of that.

That's so cool! Awesome awesome awesome!

Holy crap, I think I just awesomed everywhere!

wish their was an ancient egypt+greece, roman empire era, feudal japan and pirate 1600's. but will we be tomahawkin' brits, americans, aboriginals, spanish and portuguese?

Finally we can all learn the founding fathers true intentions.

This was totally my dream setting for an AC game. I am stoked.

Even though I haven't finished Revelations, I still want to play more Assassin's Creed games.

Looks good, still need to play Revelations, but I guess I have some time.

Just hearing the American Revolution was enough to get me excited. Of all the rumored eras that Assassin's Creed 3 would take place, the American Revolution is by far the one that interests me the most, not just because I find the era to be fascinating from a historical perspective but because it's a time period where few games have ever explored to a significant extent.

I was hoping for Feudal Japan for the next one. Imagine the fucking ninja baddassery!

Yay.

wont be surprised if they come with AC4 in a month

@JasonR86 said:

@Zacagawea said:

@JasonR86 said:

What a dumb idea. Just get to fucking Desmond already.

You seriously can't be THAT interested in Desmond. Just be happy it's a new setting and it isn't a fucking Ezio spin off again. Maybe the gameplay will be different, who knows. Sounds better then a reskinned Ezio running around New York, at least to me.

Here's the entire point for the series. The gimmick of 'learning through others' is growing really, really old. If they want to relive other's lives they need to come up with a better excuse then Desmond. For Desmond, though, they need to end his story and let him get into the action. The structure is really, really old at this point.

Story-wise, the structure isn't old at all since Desmond has only relived the memories of 2 ancestors. Gameplay-wise however, it's taken them four games to get us to this point, since they decided to go off on an Ezio tangent for a while. Ideally, you'd want one Assassin's Creed game every couple or so years, with a new setting every time. But when you think of all the assets Ubisoft have to build to get one "era" sorted, it's easy to see why they'd milk it a little bit and get more games into the market, especially if they're selling well.

I still haven't picked up Revelations. I felt like I was running out of steam with Ezio's character after AC2 and Brotherhood, both of which I enjoyed tremendously. I can't wait to see where the greater story goes, as convoluted as it is. I guess I'm just a sucker for historically tied sci-fi. I'll find time to play Revelations before AC3 hits, and be looking forward to stabbing fools in a new time and place!

this looks kinda totally cool. that concept art looks like a badass metal album cover.

I'd rather it be the Native American Assassin against the Colonist (not against the British.) Let the Mason's be the modern Templars and go after those that took the land from the Native Americans.

@Chris2KLee said:

Looks good, still need to play Revelations, but I guess I have some time.

Same here. I'm not even looking forward to it, as I was looking forward to playing all of the others.