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Andrew Yoon posted a new article,
Assassin's Creed 3 to take place during the American Revolution
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Assassin's Creed 3 has been announced in name only. While unconfirmed, a series of leaked images reveal the new setting: the American Revolution.
Mar 01, 2012 6:30am PST
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Andrew Yoon posted a new article,
Assassin's Creed 3 to take place during the American Revolution
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Assassin's Creed 3 has been announced in name only. While unconfirmed, a series of leaked images reveal the new setting: the American Revolution.
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yawnnnnnn
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mwasher
I'm on board now. Love concept. Guess i better play all the other AC games I have in my steam backlog.
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baron calamity
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Which of the founding fathers will Ubisoft turn into secret Templar Agents? I'm personally hoping for ...
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snubble100
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Thomas Paine is an Assassin, i reckon.
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dirge23
That's a very safe bet. Given that Paine and Franklin were both deists, it's easy to assume that they'll...
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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...
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OzzieMejia
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hey, they made the pope a templar and nobody got into a twist.
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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...
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Conan
yeah, i am surprised this didn't make fox news or something.
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dirge23
Well...the pope they chose to make a Templar was Alexander VI (a.k.a. Rodrigo Borgia) and he didn't leave...
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OzzieMejia
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Didn't they already implicate George Washington in AC2 or ASSBRO?
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Iazu
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ahh, yeah, forgot about that.
he had one of the apples
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dirge23
Just look at a list of Founding Fathers that were Freemasons - pretty easy to pull from. James Madiso...
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Donborvio
Hamilton was kind of an asshole...but a glorious asshole!
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Vorlonesque
Awesome choice. I love it.
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Sexpansion Pack
you know the DLC is going to take it into the French Revolution, too.
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dirge23
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* Visit Ben Franklin's house in Philadelphia to repair your lightning gauntlets
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netshade
hahahaha yesssssssssss. needs eagle vision bifocals.
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dirge23
This is a time period that I haven't played much games placed in. Not an especially interesting one for m...
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ramshot
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Love it! Expect more from the Tower Defense minigame, and ship-to-ship warfare. http://fineartamerica....
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MatthewPhillips
i better be able to bang Sally Hemings
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dirge23
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That didn't stop them with Lucrecia from ASSBRO Real http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_02...
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Iazu
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2nd link's busted, here's a good one http://images.wikia.com/assassinscreed/images/4/4e/Lucrezia.png
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Iazu
Haha WOW
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MatthewPhillips
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I've always thought that early American time... Colonial etc.. is a time period which games (or even movi...
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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...
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dirge23
Yup, and it ended up being extremely cool. I loved just looking over Damascus etc and seeing these old c...
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Gwyndion
how's he gonna blend in if nobody wears capes and shit
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GloriousCow
sounds good. where religious freedom went to expand... and religious control of course followed. pre
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Downforce
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White Guilt: The Game
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Godhatesfatpeople
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The end boss is a blanket with smallpox.
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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.
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Godhatesfatpeople
The bad ending has it raining during your symbolic funeral where they bury the word in a KISS casket.
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Rauol Duke
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wrong war?
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GloriousCow
Hahahah
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LoioshDwaggie
Different war, same guilt.
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GreggD
It was the Origins of White Guilt
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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...
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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 ...
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mopic42
i totally forgot I wanted to watch this movie!
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GloriousCow
I thought for sure the sone was going to turn into this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pCv7k_Hzvg W...
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jake
i loved that fight scene so much.
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waxthirteen
haha whoa old school
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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...
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thebigbeefsandwich
it was always pretty absurdly conspicuous anyway. like Agent 47's bald-head-with-barcode
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dirge23
yeah the guy looks weird with the backdrop
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bolneze
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18th century.
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ghostdad
Oh, right. I meant the "1700's"
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Jobos
That Game Informer banner is entitled, "Smell My Finger, George."
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Jobos
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WTF AMERICAN REVOLUTION????!!!!??!?!?! So does that mean there'll be guns (muskets being used) and a As...
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hijacker02
there have already been guns...
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GloriousCow
The last few games had both guns and crossbows.
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snot3353
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Have you even played any of the games?
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Sailor of Fortune
Guy I have all of them (games)
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hijacker02
They just debuted the box art: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150594293448068.391304.6119163...
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MatthewPhillips
This is awesome, there aren't enough games set in this period.
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at0micgarden
I think the potential for this time period is huge.
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Trips
Awesome, I was hoping for this. Hopefully it also means you travel to multiple cities, unlike the last 2 ...
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Jumperus
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I guess Benjamin Franklin is replacing Leonardo Da Vinci as the inventor. The Freemasons are with the As...
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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...
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Conan
Then again, they've been willing to make figures like Roosevelt and the current Chief Justice Templar col...
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Conan
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Not a very good choice imo. As has been mentioned before, Revolutionary France would have been better.
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Mr. Goodwrench
if it's anything like the previous games, the protagonist of AC3 will survive into that time period in su...
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dirge23
So sneaky, in that all-white cloak thing. SNEAKY ASSASSIN.
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brickmatt
colonial philadelphia? that would be a trip.
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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.
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dirge23
Personally I was hoping for late 19th/early 20th century New York. Got some sorta tall buildings and some...
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MaxPete82
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Maybe they will have you climbing trees.
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byorn
that would be pretty awesome.
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dirge23
Mario 64 already did it.
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at0micgarden
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we're going underground, brosef. assrev showed us templars will hollow out a mountain. :D
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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...
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thebigbeefsandwich
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probably not. ASSBRO and ASSREV directly continue the storyline. i haven't finished REV yet but ASSBRO ce...
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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.
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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...
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dirge23
Rev's alright, the introduction of tower defense (optional) and a single smaller city to play by don't re...
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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...
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invisible_kid
So did National Treasure... I bet there's going to be some homages to those movies in the game.
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mopic42
Yup, I wondered this too.
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node
Climbing the Liberty Bell would be the money shot.
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OzzieMejia
There were a few, but I think the bigger what-are-they-gonna-do-about-it, I think, is density. Maybe they...
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drhazard
True, but there
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lots of tall trees!
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Home Nugget
Maybe big naval battles with lots of rigging and shit to climb?
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ghostdad
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i only finished 1 - the games looks cool but theyre kinda boring to actually play
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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...
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node
i also tried the one with Ezio and the "its a me Mario" line but didnt finish it
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bolneze
The first one is very boring and repetetive. AC2 and Brotherhood are fantastic.
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Mr. Goodwrench
ass2 and assbro are incredibly good games. gamer card material in my opinion.
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Downforce
Yeah, 1 was like "proof-of-concept" almost. A prologue. Play AC2 and AssBro and you should be pleasantl...
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Donborvio
AWESOME! :D
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thetangent
love the john lennon reference on the pic!
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Damann66
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I was hoping for London. It's hard to imagine how they're going to make this work.
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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 ...
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node
Victorian London with Jack the Ripper could be fucking amazing...that should be the next one maybe!
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Vorlonesque
Sigh, enough AssCreed. Splinter Cell info please.
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thejm4n
I like the sound of this! I always assumed it would be Victorian England, but this will make for a more ...
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pigvomit
so will this be more or less historically accurate than "The Patriot "? at the very least can Francis ...
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BillPaxtonator