So will Andrew Jackson be a Templar?

That's also a good point, Phil_.

Those of us who get our information on games through the internet and forums and such will be the ones more likely to have seen those articles where they promise a more nuanced story.

And I guess an "AMERICA!" trailer is more likely to catch the eye of those who aren't into the series itself enough to have heard about it on the Internet.

So, with that in mind, it's a decent trailer, but I do hope that the game itself is more grey in terms of morality.

If not I am still hunting that ass down and stabbing him with shanky and the axe.

I got a nice...tin...cover...art thingy for preordering AC3 today.

New details

Still acting under the assumption that historical accuracy means "America's myth about the revolution," but whatever.

Apparently their solution for the cities being to small back then is to pretend that they aren't. Hahahaha...

Also, you get to paddle a canoe.

EDIT: "You won't just be killing the British in Assassin's Creed 3! You'll kill Native Americans, too!" ahahahahaha oh fuck

EDIT2: Okay, cool, I'm hearing one of the screenshots is of stalking down an American general. Worries assuaged.

WWWWHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY

Man there's just no reason to do this. If AC3's going to be all colonial America it should be all about the pristine rural beauty of nature and shit and gameplay mechanics should change correspondingly. It shouldn't be like, "Let's transform colonial era Boston into a city where the exact same mechanics you relied on in Renaissance Venice are appropriate." It should be, "This is a new game in the series and we should do new things with it and make it play quite differently."

Gameplay > Realism. And if I'm getting an Assassin's Creed game, I expect lots of things to climb and stab. I guess they could reinvent the wheel, but that kind of goes against franchise logic to me. A few new things, refinements, sure. Big departure from other games in the main series, not so much.

You are protecting him from the evil British and Native Americans.

(or hes a traitor of some kind, secretly British, you know this because you saw him eating crumpets)

I find this argument is often misused. "Realism", for instance, is not the target here, "Sense" is. As in, "Does it make sense to set the new AC game all the way in the Americas if they're going to just make it feel like Europe all over again?".

Neither Sense nor Gameplay should have to sacrifice one another. Surely there's more to the feel of AC than prowling through busy city streets, jumping off tall buildings and into haystacks. Setting it in the Americas is the perfect opportunity to bring a certain refreshing change to the paradigm and refusing to do that seems a bit of a waste.