Assassin's Creed 3 to take place during the American Revolution

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• yawnnnnnn : mwasher
• I'm on board now. Love concept. Guess i better play all the other AC games I have in my steam backlog. : baron calamity
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  Which of the founding fathers will Ubisoft turn into secret Templar Agents?
  
  I'm personally hoping for Alexander Hamilton.

  Mar 01, 2012 6:43am PST
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  Which of the founding fathers will Ubisoft turn into secret Templar Agents? I'm personally hoping for ... : snubble100
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    Thomas Paine is an Assassin, i reckon. : dirge23
    • That's a very safe bet. Given that Paine and Franklin were both deists, it's easy to assume that they'll... : OzzieMejia
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    Can't see the founding fathers being Templars. I'd imagine they'd make the British into Templars in this... : OzzieMejia
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      hey, they made the pope a templar and nobody got into a twist. : dirge23
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        I still love that a major triple A game ended with getting into a fistfight with the pope. I'm surpris... : Conan
        • yeah, i am surprised this didn't make fox news or something. : dirge23
      • Well...the pope they chose to make a Templar was Alexander VI (a.k.a. Rodrigo Borgia) and he didn't leave... : OzzieMejia
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    Didn't they already implicate George Washington in AC2 or ASSBRO? : Iazu
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      ahh, yeah, forgot about that. he had one of the apples : dirge23
      • Just look at a list of Founding Fathers that were Freemasons - pretty easy to pull from. James Madiso... : Donborvio
  • Hamilton was kind of an asshole...but a glorious asshole! : Vorlonesque
• Awesome choice. I love it. : Sexpansion Pack
• you know the DLC is going to take it into the French Revolution, too. : dirge23
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  * Visit Ben Franklin's house in Philadelphia to repair your lightning gauntlets : netshade
  • hahahaha yesssssssssss. needs eagle vision bifocals. : dirge23
• This is a time period that I haven't played much games placed in. Not an especially interesting one for m... : ramshot
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  Love it! Expect more from the Tower Defense minigame, and ship-to-ship warfare. http://fineartamerica.... : MatthewPhillips
  • i better be able to bang Sally Hemings : dirge23
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    That didn't stop them with Lucrecia from ASSBRO Real http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_02... : Iazu
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      2nd link's busted, here's a good one http://images.wikia.com/assassinscreed/images/4/4e/Lucrezia.png : Iazu
      • Haha WOW : MatthewPhillips
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  I've always thought that early American time... Colonial etc.. is a time period which games (or even movi... : Gwyndion
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    that's definitely one of the best things about the AC series, the unique historical settings. not a lot o... : dirge23
    • Yup, and it ended up being extremely cool. I loved just looking over Damascus etc and seeing these old c... : Gwyndion
• how's he gonna blend in if nobody wears capes and shit : GloriousCow
• sounds good. where religious freedom went to expand... and religious control of course followed. pre : Downforce
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  White Guilt: The Game : Godhatesfatpeople
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    The end boss is a blanket with smallpox. : Rauol Duke
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      It's the "N-Word" and you have to kill it by getting angry about it. Like really angry. : Godhatesfatpeople
      • The bad ending has it raining during your symbolic funeral where they bury the word in a KISS casket. : Rauol Duke
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    wrong war? : GloriousCow
    • Hahahah : LoioshDwaggie
    • Different war, same guilt. : GreggD
    • It was the Origins of White Guilt : Sailor of Fortune
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  I wonder how they'll handle the costume design. It's one thing to portray clothing of the Dark Ages or R... : Jobos
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    Tri-corner hats and long blue capes FTW. For a cool concept of what this might look like, check out ... : mopic42
    • i totally forgot I wanted to watch this movie! : GloriousCow
    • I thought for sure the sone was going to turn into this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pCv7k_Hzvg W... : jake
    • i loved that fight scene so much. : waxthirteen
    • haha whoa old school : bolneze
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    Fable style I guess. It's weird they're promo'ng a dude in that out of place costume though. No way he co... : thebigbeefsandwich
    • it was always pretty absurdly conspicuous anyway. like Agent 47's bald-head-with-barcode : dirge23
  • yeah the guy looks weird with the backdrop : bolneze
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    18th century. : ghostdad
    • Oh, right. I meant the "1700's" : Jobos
• That Game Informer banner is entitled, "Smell My Finger, George." : Jobos
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  WTF AMERICAN REVOLUTION????!!!!??!?!?! So does that mean there'll be guns (muskets being used) and a As... : hijacker02
  • there have already been guns... : GloriousCow
  • The last few games had both guns and crossbows. : snot3353
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    Have you even played any of the games? : Sailor of Fortune
    • Guy I have all of them (games) : hijacker02
• They just debuted the box art: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150594293448068.391304.6119163... : MatthewPhillips
• This is awesome, there aren't enough games set in this period. : at0micgarden
• I think the potential for this time period is huge. : Trips
• Awesome, I was hoping for this. Hopefully it also means you travel to multiple cities, unlike the last 2 ... : Jumperus
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  I guess Benjamin Franklin is replacing Leonardo Da Vinci as the inventor. The Freemasons are with the As... : akiratea
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    Unless they want to risk pissing off people they'll have to be with the assasins, given how many founding... : Conan
    • Then again, they've been willing to make figures like Roosevelt and the current Chief Justice Templar col... : Conan
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  Not a very good choice imo. As has been mentioned before, Revolutionary France would have been better. : Mr. Goodwrench
  • if it's anything like the previous games, the protagonist of AC3 will survive into that time period in su... : dirge23
• So sneaky, in that all-white cloak thing. SNEAKY ASSASSIN. : brickmatt
• colonial philadelphia? that would be a trip. : wvuong
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  a friend of mine pointed out that there weren't a lot of tall buildings to climb on in colonial america. : dirge23
  • Personally I was hoping for late 19th/early 20th century New York. Got some sorta tall buildings and some... : MaxPete82
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    Maybe they will have you climbing trees. : byorn
    • that would be pretty awesome. : dirge23
    • Mario 64 already did it. : at0micgarden
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    we're going underground, brosef. assrev showed us templars will hollow out a mountain. :D : Downforce
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      is AC3 going to make any sense if we just played AC2 and skipped the side games? I really didn't feel dra... : thebigbeefsandwich
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        probably not. ASSBRO and ASSREV directly continue the storyline. i haven't finished REV yet but ASSBRO ce... : dirge23
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          there is a risk we're about to jump the shark with AC3. but it's been a really good run. : Downforce
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            totally. i liked AC2 and ASSBRO so much i don't know how they'll match it. that's most of why i haven't p... : dirge23
            • Rev's alright, the introduction of tower defense (optional) and a single smaller city to play by don't re... : supaLink
      • I thought the plot of these games is you are some dude from the future playing a VR game in a lab where y... : invisible_kid
    • So did National Treasure... I bet there's going to be some homages to those movies in the game. : mopic42
  • Yup, I wondered this too. : node
  • Climbing the Liberty Bell would be the money shot. : OzzieMejia
  • There were a few, but I think the bigger what-are-they-gonna-do-about-it, I think, is density. Maybe they... : drhazard
  • True, but there were lots of tall trees! : Home Nugget
  • Maybe big naval battles with lots of rigging and shit to climb? : ghostdad
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  i only finished 1 - the games looks cool but theyre kinda boring to actually play : bolneze
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    The mistake you made was finishing the shit one. 2 and AssBro are awesome. Rev, not great but still way b... : node
    • i also tried the one with Ezio and the "its a me Mario" line but didnt finish it : bolneze
  • The first one is very boring and repetetive. AC2 and Brotherhood are fantastic. : Mr. Goodwrench
  • ass2 and assbro are incredibly good games. gamer card material in my opinion. : Downforce
  • Yeah, 1 was like "proof-of-concept" almost. A prologue. Play AC2 and AssBro and you should be pleasantl... : Donborvio
• AWESOME! :D : thetangent
• love the john lennon reference on the pic! : Damann66
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  I was hoping for London. It's hard to imagine how they're going to make this work. : peanut-
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    I would love that team to make Victorian London. Shame all we've got so far with a sandbox London is The ... : node
    • Victorian London with Jack the Ripper could be fucking amazing...that should be the next one maybe! : Vorlonesque
• Sigh, enough AssCreed. Splinter Cell info please. : thejm4n
• I like the sound of this! I always assumed it would be Victorian England, but this will make for a more ... : pigvomit
• so will this be more or less historically accurate than "The Patriot "? at the very least can Francis ... : BillPaxtonator