Assassin's Creed III

[Gukumatz]

While I really wanted a ninja, I guess a native American will do.

It’s gotten a pretty uniform “eh…” response on this side of the pond. Which I don’t entirely hold with, as it was a pretty objectively interesting time period to play in and since the developers are Canadian, IIRC, chances are they won’t go all Medal of Honor: Airborne.

[Agent_Foxtrot]

@kombatminipig

Oh, I’m very disappointed by the choice The fun of Assassin’s Creed has for me always been urban exploration. I thought the open areas of the original games were absolute rubbish, and was overjoyed that they were abandoned in the later games. Conversely, massed combat has always been one of the series’ weakest points (the game mechanic defies logic when the protagonist is faced with more then 2-3 opponents, because nobody figures out they can just stab him in the back), which seems to be what they’re hinting at.

With such a fantastic depth of other scenarios to choose from (Revolutionary France and Edo-era Japan (or during the Meiji restoration) as mentioned, Europe in the 1920s could also be good), why they chose such an uninteresting period to be an assassin as the American Revolution is beyond me.

Also, hunting animals and selling their pelts? I’ve done more than enough of that in Skyrim, thank you very much. I can see where this is going. Desmond gets to relive his ancestor’s epic life as a beaver trapper, fighting the Sons of Benny Beaver so that he can claim their founder’s epic Beaver Armor. Seriously, what sounds more fun…tossing a Florentian guard (who only had one day left to retirement and was getting too old for this shit) off a roof, or dropping a beaver from a tree?

Two things: One, I agree. Two, LOL! Love this post.