Assassin's Creed 3: America! Fuck Yeah!

[Arcanum]

So AC3 art has started to pop up on the internet, with a rumored official reveal on March 5th more information coming out on Monday according to Destructoid who said Ubisoft officially confirmed this, although I'm too lazy to find where Ubisoft did so.

First we have some promotional art.

And then we have the official box art from Ubisoft.

Looks like AC3 will be happening during the war of independence, with the new assassin potentially being part native american (that or he's just partial to using a tomahawk and bow).

Also apparently the game has been in development for three years, so we might be seeing the same kind of overhaul that happened between AC1 and AC2 (which will probably be the only thing that will convince me to buy the game when it releases in October).

edit- Also apparently Game Informer briefly had this this banner image.

[Locke cole]

You know, when you consider the eagle motif with the other two assassins, it was really only a matter of time.

[Melfice]

Originally Posted by Locke cole

You know, when you consider the eagle motif with the other two assassinsvideo games, it was really only a matter of time.

Fixed that for you.
Because 9/10 AAA titles ends up in or about the US somehow.

I have absolutely no reason not to expect Abstergo fuelling the British on, while the Assassins are behind the US.
Making this one of those "America, Fuck Yeah" things.

Ugh.

I'd be happily surprised if it turns out the other way.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Melfice

Fixed that for you.
Because 9/10 AAA titles ends up in or about the US somehow.

I have absolutely no reason not to expect Abstergo fuelling the British on, while the Assassins are behind the US.
Making this one of those "America, Fuck Yeah" things.

Ugh.

I'd be happily surprised if it turns out the other way.

I'd be extremely disappointed if it turned out the other way.

But no in all honesty one of the few things I liked about the original Assassin's Creed, which was otherwise a mediocre experience, was how there were Templars and Assassins on both sides of the conflict, so there weren't any clear-defined boundaries between 'good' and 'evil.'
I'm guessing AC3 will have the same motifs; some Brits are good, some Brits are bad, some Americans are good, some Americans are bad.

...Also the protag is almost certainly at least part American Indian because the only stereotype more likely to appear in this game than the conservative "America Fuck Yeah!" is the slightly more justifiable but still kind-of-annoying liberal counter-reaction of "Native Americans were the only decent people back then (and we're going to completely gloss over their faults and present them as nature-loving peace-making colonial era elfs.)"

EDIT: Also, the criticism that "9/10 games are about America" and therefore this game is cliche would be more valid if there was like, ever, in the history of the universe, a vidjagame released before that had you play as an American during the Revolution.
...I honestly can't remember one.

If anything, I think "middle ages Europe" has been overused twenty times more than just about every era of historic America before WW2.

[Kim]

Fuck America.

[Arcanum]

Well Desmond had to end up in America somehow.

Also if this new assassin is indeed part Native-American, then we could be seeing the war form that point of view instead of from a pro-American, fuck the British perspective.

Also also, the Templars tend to have their claws in everything, so it's possible both the American side and British side will have enemy agents that will need to "dealt with."

Also also also, Ubisoft isn't an American company, so they have no reason to be all "Merika! Fuck yeah!"

[Melfice]

Originally Posted by Arcanum

Also also also, Ubisoft isn't an American company, so they have no reason to be all "Merika! Fuck yeah!"

Unfortunately, " 'Merika! Fuck Yeah!" sells.

Also, I should have probably said "recent AAA titles". And maybe then it's in my imagination, but it does seem like it's a thing.
Because you know how the "US is teh fcucking awsum lolzers"!!!

Eh... regardless. I'm miffed. There's so many places they could have gone before ending up in America for Desmond's sake.
EDIT: South-Africa could have been interesting too. The whole slave trade and/or Apartheid would have made an interesting setting for the whole Assassin vs. Templar thing.

[Solid Snake]

...We get to kick British ass and fight for 'Murica alongside George bleepin' Washington?!?!

...Best game ever
Or at least, best game of 2012

[Locke cole]

Well it looks like Awahili, or whatever our new Assassin is going to be named, has some Native American heritage, but is also fighting against Redcoats, so it could really go both ways.

Watch it turn out that Ol' GW was really only after the Star of Mendroceszaga or whatever the new Piece of Eden is.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Locke cole

Well it looks like Awahili, or whatever our new Assassin is going to be named, has some Native American heritage, but is also fighting against Redcoats, so it could really go both ways.

Watch it turn out that Ol' GW was really only after the Star of Mendroceszaga or whatever the new Piece of Eden is.

If there's one hate I hate about AC canon it's how, like, every remotely decent historic figure with the apparent exception of Leonardo da Vinci (who was just naturally a genius) were card-carrying Assassins and Templars members using all-powerful artifacts to do everything they did.

It reinforces this eerily conservative narrative of "In order to become someone important, you have to be special and you can't be an everyday peon," insofar as the only historic figures who ever accomplished anything were either Assassins or Templars, and it also thoroughly dismisses anything they've ever done as some crazy ploy for a series of all-powerful MacGuffins. No character except Da Vinci is just a smart, hard-working diligent dude who deserves to get where he is, and all knowledge humanity's ever attained is just because Alien Gods and Goddesses gave it to us or some shit.