Assassins Creed 3 debut trailer released, information leaked

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Assassin's Creed 3 is on the way and to let us know, Ubisoft has graced us with a game trailer. A new 18th century backdrop will house the largest project in Ubisoft's history, touting a slew of changes and finer attention to details than ever before. Assassin's Creed 3 is currently expected to ship October 30 of this year.

Also just recently, a vast quantity of details about the upcoming title were leaked to Game Informer and over a dozen screenshots have been revealed at All Games Beta. 

This time, the story will center around a half English, half Native American Assassin named Ratohnhake (pronounced Ra-doon-ha-gay-doo). If you have trouble remembering that one, you may be relieved to know he also goes by Connor.

We now know that Assassin's Creed 3 takes place in American revolutionary war times. The "frontier" serves as the story's backdrop. Players will also get the chance to work with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and General Charles Lee as the story unfolds. The world itself is said to be 50% larger than the one Assassin's Creed 2 took place in, featuring snowy winters, majestic mountain cliffs and beautiful woodlands.

In addition to a radically new setting, the new Anvil game engine promises technical superiority over previous iterations of the game. Anvil boasts "thousand man battles", highly detailed facial expressions and a completely redesigned animation system with no animations carried over from previous games. The engine will also provide greater realism -- soldiers will move more slowly in the fridgid cold while thick snow cover will cause them to move about more clumsily, for example.

Here is but a small sampling of what to expect. Follow the link below for an exhaustive list.

  • Combat is focused on putting you on the offensive and based on speed/momentum.
  • The main character has thousands of new and unique animations (no carry over from other titles) to support the new combat system.

  • The Frontier is not empty like in Assassin's Creed 1, but features a third of the game's missions and gameplay content.
  • You can hunt animals for resources, and how you kill them effects your reward. A one hit kill on a bear gets you a much more valuable pelt than stabbing it eight times.

  • The wilderness traversal plays a big part in the gameplay in the Frontier, allowing you to use trees, cliffs, ledges, and more to set up kills and combat.
  • The entire world will change with seasons, so the cities and the wilderness will all exist in both Summer and Winter settings.

  • There will be a goods based economy, a new property system, and more Desmond stuff.
  • They're not unveiling anything about the multiplayer yet.

  • There's no more target locking, it just automatically detects your target. Counter/defense are the same button to prevent turtling.
  • You can use human shields and other context sensitive moves.

  • They want you to constantly move in battle.
  • There are lots of secondary attacks like the one shot pistol on the Y button.

    Source: computerandvideogames.com

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AHHHHH!! There's always a USA in every game. Why do you have to do this!? Tell me this is not the continuation of Revelations. And tell me the character whose head is being sucked out is not Desmond.
 
everything about this game has been 'leaked'. I say they're just releasing information and calling it leaks to promote interest in the game.
 
Ubisoft needs the publicity, There DRM is a little to far so they're trying to pull in the crowds.
 
Yeah, and now the assassins are supporting the independence of the 13 british colonies... sure... What next? Sheppard with a US flag in the background of the end of ME3? Give me a break.
 
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It's not the USA if it's during the revolutionary war, silly
 
Here's a thought for some of you complaining. If Desmond is an American guy and you play out his ancestors' past's in the animus, wouldn't you already expect that North America would play a part in the story? Stop complaining.
 
Why are you all expecting this to be another flag-waving American game? Ubisoft Montreal are, funnily enough, not an American company. It's simply a setting. A bloody awesome one, at that.

The main character is English and Native-American. I highly doubt that the Americans will be shown in a completely positive light.
 
So true. And this goes out to the fist comment listed. The reason it's called Assassin's Creed 3 is that it's a continuation of Desmond's ancestral line by the way not a continuation of Revelations. Think about the title before posting up an *****ic comment about a great game of many... especially when it's the 5th game in the series and Ubisoft naming it AC3.
 
awful trailer, crap gfx, same old bullshit, why ubisoft is releasing another *** creed game, they should release another *** creed DLC, the games are all same, this one is going to be a huge fail, like revelations.
 
It's a new chapter in the series. Desmond is in it, but he goes back to this Connor guy to see information about the peice of eden in New York. And America has never been in this series besides now.
 
Gawdamit. I love this game, but really? REALLY? C'mon. They're just cranking them out at this point.
 
this is not even related to ezio at all..that's why it is called AC3.
 
they have totally ruined the game setting it in the Americas!!!.......... up-till now i've loved the series but this has left me absolutely devastated & tearful ;'(........

i will definitely not purchase this one!!! ,.l.. you ubisoft ..l., you.
 
this trailer looks sick. for all of those who are hating on the way the story is coming along, did you expect anything different? people in the days of the crusades and renaissance migrated everywhere... not to mention with desmond being american, it was bound to happen coming to america. please refrain from stupid comments about how being in america will ruin the game.. i believe it will actually enhance the story to a further point.
 
In case you guys didn't know New York City is in America... Desmond is in America... Eventually the game has to go to the Americas. I'm going to stop playing this game because it seems that the majority of people that play are mentally retarded
 
yeah, it should have eventually gone the direction of the Americas in the next five years or so...... right now there was much more exploring to do in Europe and else where...
 
Some people clearly know nothing of American history, all americans have mixed bloodlines so yes, Desmond is of arab iltalian british NA decent, not unreasonable. Why are people surprised it came to North America, the last game was set in 15th century? so obviously this was next. The revolution is a very interesting setting that im sure will be great. They arent "cranking them out" if the are completely using a new engine so get off it. It would be boring if the setting didnt change, if you kept killing politicians in europe? now the series can come to this side of the globe and perhaps the following game will go to south america? or WW2? Think about s*** before you post it
 
Fine. I shall refine my sentence. Why do every game I play always goes to the Americas? I really liked AC when it was just in Rome or Italy. Sighhhh. I do hope this comes out good. I mean watching the trailer just turns me off.

P.S. I do know my history. I was just on rage that I didn't know this was during the Revolutionary War.
 
"the games are all same, this one is going to be a huge fail, like revelations."

HA! You're funny. Revelations has sold at least 7 million copies as of February, and is Ubisoft's most successful game to date. And Ubisoft has been working on this for three years- they're really good at multitasking since they're such a large development team.
Also, for those of you complaining about 'more of the same', have you even watched the trailer?
 
Right...4 games took place outside the US and you ***** when they develop one in the BRITISH COLONY.
 
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