Assassin's Creed 3 Wii U controller features detailed
Swish special features being prototyped for the Wii U touchscreen controller in Assassin's Creed III include easy access to the Animus and inventory, and an alternate view for Eagle Vision.
Like the Wii before it, the Wii U has a fancy controller which encourages developers to add unique functionality. Unlike the Wii, though, the Wii U will have enough muscle to run games like Assassin's Creed III. Add that all together, and you have special features for the Wii U touchscreen controller in AC3, which have now been revealed a little more.
Ubisoft's prototyping a number of context-sensitive uses for the touchscreen, creative director Alex Hutchinson explains in the latest issue of Nintendo Gamer magazine (via NintenGen). It could show a map when you're off exploring, but be used to quickly select weapons in combat.
Then there's the in-game encyclopedia detailing notable locations and people, which could use the second screen to dump information when you come across them rather than popping up on the main screen.
The most intriguing idea teased, though perhaps not the most practical, is using the touchscreen for the information-gathering 'Eagle Vision' mode.
Set during the American Revolution, Assassin's Creed III is coming on October 30, though the Wii U edition obviously can't launch until the console does this holiday season, and who knows how long Ubisoft will delay the PC version this time?
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Swish special features being prototyped for the Wii U touchscreen controller in Assassin's Creed III include easy access to the Animus and inventory, and an alternate view for Eagle Vision.-
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"and who knows how long Ubisoft will delay the PC version this time?"
Apparently they are not delaying it and giving PC gamer's same day launch love --> http://www.ubi.com/US/Games/Info.aspx?pId=10502 this makes valcan_s happy :) -
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If they didn't like the PC platform they would stop making games for it. If they don't like PC gamers though, I can't blame them. Bunch of pirating, entitled, whining, petty little bitches.
I love the PC and it's where I do 90% of my gaming but we can stop pretending that the community is any more intelligent or reasonable than the foulmouthed tykes on Xbox Live.-
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I think you should read into this situation a little more. This isn't some one-off event. Ubisoft has been progressively anti-PC for years now, and the attitude they're sporting with this ASSCREED3 PR is pretty blatant.
In reaction to stories like this, PC gamers stop buying Ubi games and the inevitable lackluster sales for Ubi PC games is blamed on piracy/the entitled PC community, sounding eerily similar to your first comment up there.
Maybe you should go work for Ubisoft.
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Oh please. All the Assassin's Creed games have support for mouse + kb. It's not the best way to play the game (you realize m+kb isn't best for every game and genre, right?) but it's there.
God I hate how the internet gives such a voice to ignorant people who make shit up because they don't know what the fuck they're talking about.-
You realize rick's comment is in response to this news, right?
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty/27907003
You were saying something about ignorant people not knowing what they're talking about?-
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That's how I read it. But it retrospect that may not be what he meant.
Either way, he implied that the m+kb support for AC3 is worse than the previous games which to the best of my knowledge is not true at all.
I don't understand why when Ubisoft does the same thing they did for the previous 4 games, all of a sudden it's a scandal now.
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lol. I didn't say it was ideal (in fact I explicitly said the opposite), but it's there. You can play all the AC games with mouse + kb. It's not designed around it, no. But I could list dozens of PC games that are not ideally played with m+kb, including all the previous installments of the AC series.
They're not making "special" support, no. PC gamers need to get over this idea that they're "special".
It's not a human rights violation if developers don't treat you as the high gods of gaming, catering to every last whim and request no matter what.
Given how much lower the sales are from PC versions and the fact that a lot of PC gamers don't even bother to pay for the games, they're doing you a favor by even treating you as equal, let alone "special".
My opinion may be unpopular but this ever-worsening prima donna shit from the PC community is making me increasingly embarrassed to be a PC gamer.
Just my opinion. You don't have to like it, and I probably shouldn't have posted it, but that's my take.
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