Assassin's Creed III

[Red Baron]

Assassin's Creed III: Official Debut Trailer [HD]

 

[vivisectvi]

Via Joystiq:

Ubisoft has officially revealed the first real details on Assassin's Creed 3. First of all, in addition to Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, the game is headed to the Wii U. The new protagonist is named Ratohnhaké:ton and is "of Native American and English heritage." He has also adopted the name Connor, much to the relief of copy editors everywhere.

As reported, the game does take place during the American Revolution and "spans the Revolutionary War, taking gamers from the vibrant, untamed frontier to bustling colonial towns and the intense, chaotic battlefields where George Washington's Continental Army clashed with the imposing British Army." More details are promised in the April issue of Game Informer.

Assassin's Creed 3 is built on an entirely new engine called Ubisoft-AnvilNext, which promises "breakthroughs in visual quality, character models and artificial intelligence." Finally, a special limited edition case -- which looks awfully familiar -- will be given to those who pre-order AC3 through GameStop, Best Buy or Amazon. Check out the debut trailer above and see the limited edition case in the gallery below.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/05/assassins-creed-3-headed-to-wii-u-first-trailer-released/

 

[Mattdotcom]

I was excited for that trailer until I remembered that video game trailers don't have to show video games anymore.

 

[2GOLD]

If this leads to a Civil War version later, I'm all for it. I'm interested by this. I'll wait for some more information to see where it goes.

 

[vivisectvi]

To be fair, the game doesn't drop until Oct 31 so I wouldn't expect more than a teaser from any footage this early into the year.

 

[vivisectvi]

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/06/assassins-creed-3-four-player-co-op-accidentally-revealed-by-xb/

The Xbox Live Marketplace's listing for Assassin's Creed 3 briefly counted "Online co-op 2 - 4" among the game's various features, as well as "Online multiplayer 2 - 8." While the online multiplayer classification remains, the co-op listing has since been removed from both the European and North American Xbox Live Marketplace.

Situations like this are tricky, because the Xbox Live Marketplace has been known to list some patently false information. At times, however, it can be right on the money, so we're bringing it your attention. While multiplayer is nothing new at this point for Assassin's Creed, campaign co-op would be a major addition to the franchise.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

If this leads to a Civil War version later, I'm all for it. I'm interested by this. I'll wait for some more information to see where it goes.

They should totally have the player character be John Wilkes Booth.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

I got Assassin's Creed 2 a week ago after really enjoying the first game and loved 2 even more. Just awesome. I really loved the carriage ride segment for instance. The storyline is really compelling. Makes me want to go out and pick up all the other games soon.

 

[KingPK]

The only other one you really need to get is Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. That's the one that really added some cool refinements to the gameplay like the Assassin's Guild. Revelations is just Brotherhood with a few unnecessary additions (tower defense, anyone?) and a dull story.

 

[bps21]

They get progressively worse as they add in more and more useless nonsense. They're still not bad...but 2 is the best in the series so far.

 

[fazzle]

Nah Brotherhood is easily the best in the series. If you really want to tell me that being able to call in your boys to kill a few guards while you're just standing off in the distance not giving a fuck DOESN'T make the game better, you're just goddamn insane.

Plus the multiplayer is legitimately awesome, so long as you're not playing with retards, and play with people who actually attempt to be stealthy, instead of just run around the map the whole time.

 

[Exslade ZX]

The only other one you really need to get is Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. That's the one that really added some cool refinements to the gameplay like the Assassin's Guild. Revelations is just Brotherhood with a few unnecessary additions (tower defense, anyone?) and a dull story.

I was ecstatic when I figured out, I only had to play through that shit once my whole playthrough. I bribed the hell out of guys when I found out the alert meter was the reason for the tower defense game.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

If this leads to a Civil War version later, I'm all for it. I'm interested by this. I'll wait for some more information to see where it goes.

They should totally have the player character be John Wilkes Booth.

Based on one of the Glyph puzzles in AC2 Booth was killed by the Assassin's so it wouldn't make much sense for him to be an Assassin (unless he went ROGUE!). The wiki seems to confirm that http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth

 

[Mazto]

This came out today, I got it this morning (not midnight, but when the store opened) I've never played any of the other games in the series, and I'm having fun just parkoring around and murdering Redcoats. I've done like... five quests since landing in Boston.

Spoiler

MILF hunting Benjamin Franklin discussing why MILF's are better than young women was hilarious.

 

[Conspiracy_Victim]

Picked it up today, going to finished running through Revelations first just in case there are any references. Almost through sequence 6 so it shouldn't be more than a day or two tops.

 

[KingPK]

Honestly all you need to do is YouTube the ending.

Just started III. LOVE the setting.

 

[Conspiracy_Victim]

It's not the ending, it's the journey that makes it all worthwhile.

 

[KingPK]

But Revelations' journey really isn't worth it. I barely remember anything about it until the start of 3 reminded me how it ended.

When they say this game is a slow starter, they aren't kidding.

 

[Conspiracy_Victim]

Eh, I'm on Sequence 7 now, so I should be done today anyway and hopefully start 3 immediately thereafter.

Book chick is REALLY after Ezio. Dude's Italian, he oughta be all over that, even if he is an old man by now. Not like he turned down Caterina Sforza, even if it was a couple of decades ago.

 

[Mazto]

Yeah, you finally get to your main character after like 4-5 sequences.

 

[KingPK]

I kinda called the first big "twist" early on.

Hunting is interesting. At least it let's you skip the skinning animation, unlike Red Dead.

 

[Conspiracy_Victim]

Finished Revelations, started 3. Man, they really start off simple, don't they? The flintlock reloading gets a little tedious, but woo realism I guess.

 

[Mazto]

The skinning animation isn't too long anyways.

One thing that kind of gets to me is that as a newbie to the series sometimes the game wants me to have knowledge of how to do somethings for the extra tasks that I had no idea how to do.

Spoiler

Killing from around the corner in the mission where you free the slaves from stockades, for example. I had no idea how to work that mechanic

and I've had to go look up walkthroughs on-line for mechanics that the fan-base knows already. I understand that it'd be annoying to reteach all that stuff, but some guidance would be nice. *cough*Bringback instruction booklets*cough*

Dirty Edit: Fighting Captains is often a bitch too, they counter-strike you for everything, I seemingly only can kill them with luck, no matter how I time the block they just punch me or get a counter to my counter.

 

[KingPK]

I've found that you need to break their defenses first before you can do damage. It still has the "jam on X to combo kill everyone" thing and it's still fun as hell.

I won't lie: the "prologue" as it is (the first 4 or 5 sequences) is way too fucking long. I appreciate them taking time to establish the new setting and all, but I was so happy to see shit finally HAPPEN in the story.

 

[Mazto]

Ran into a weird spot, wound up fighting three captains. Somehow lived. I decided I'm a wizard.

 

[ViciousFish]

Ran around a corner running from a couple Redcoats, hit a fence and fell through the world.

 

[KingPK]

Your Assassin recruits aren't as strong to start in this game; I sent one to take down a group of guys on a roof and they all just trained their muskets on him and shot him off the roof.

The fact that enemies now have guns is fucking annoying, BTW. I'm trying to slaughter an entire army by myself here!

 

[bps21]

I had a bitch of a time in sequence 3 part 2 meeting the optional requirements. I'd sabotage the two cannons easily and then stupid shit would happen. A couple times I had to run away from someone who spotted me and wait...which isn't a big deal except new guards seemingly appeared out of thin air and once a guy just decided to camp out so he could bust me again as soon as I moved. When I finally got to the map and had to escape...I got out and while trying to lose the troops to get back to the indian chick one of them just started attacking her not allowing me to complete the mission without killing him. I finally got it.

 

[KingPK]

Into Sequence 7 and I'm not sure how I feel about this game right now. There's a lot of side stuff to do, but I'm not sure exactly what benefits I get from a lot of it. The game really doesn't explain much to you.

I also wish they'd get on with the story. Sequence 6 ends with

Spoiler

Paul Revere's Ride. The damn war still hasn't started!

 

[ViciousFish]

I'm having a really hard time getting into this one.