
While Brotherhood and Revelations were developed and released using the games original Anvil Engine, Creative director Alex Hutchinson has been confined to the workshop with his team, designing and creating an entirely new platform for Ratohnhaké:ton - or Connor, for those without a Native American dictionary AC3's protagonist to play on. With Assassins Creed 3 Ubisoft have always been keen to rock the proverbial boat. Not so! This third outing has been in the workshop since the moment Ezios first parquet misadventure hit stores in 2009. Many feel that, with the imminent release date, Assassins Creed 3 is being churned off the Ubisoft production line just in time for another Christmas like Brotherhood and Revelations. With a new Assassins Creed 2 expansion title dropping literally once a year for the past three years, and #3 being announced so soon after Revelations, the franchise is quickly starting to feel like the R.L Stines Goosebumps of the gaming world. Were an ungrateful bunch and weve been spoiled for choice for far too long by a unending stream of new, exciting and innovative video games. Change too little and the audience will also grumble. Youve got a lot to maintain change too much and the audience will grumble.

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Multiplayer action returns to the series with a variety of modes, including Domination mode, in which Xbox 360 gamers vie for control of certain points on the map, and the Wolf Pack mode, where teams work together to assassinate NPC targets.It cant be easy to keep a franchise going. All of the action can be dramatically altered by a new system of dynamic weather, with thick fog and giant waves providing cover but also making assaults more difficult.Ĭonnor's travels throughout the colonies will put him in contact with iconic figures of the American Revolution, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Paul Revere, but as always, the entirety of his 30-year experience as an Assassin is witnessed through the DNA memory of Desmond Miles, who players will also take control of for the portions of the game set in 2012. As the commander of a ship, Connor can engage in a variety of sea-based missions that include navigating minefields, boarding enemy vessels, and large-scale ship-on-ship assaults.

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The mission structure in Assassin's Creed III remains relatively similar to previous titles in the series, with targeted assassinations, side missions to help the downtrodden, and platforming sessions inside iconic buildings, but one big change is the addition of naval warfare. New assassination and fighting techniques abound, but new features like mobile hay carts and the ability to run through buildings ensure that stealth and evasion are still key components of the series. Gamers can make use of a variety of new weapons, including more advanced firearms, rope darts, and classic bows, but Connor is a dual-wield specialist whose signature blade is his new tomahawk. Assassin's Creed III finds players bounding through the trees of a sprawling frontier wilderness, battling enemies throughout the fledgling cities of Boston and New York and the fields of Lexington and Concord, and engaging in naval combat along the roiling Eastern Seaboard.Ĭreated for Assassin's Creed III, Ubisoft's new Anvil Next game engine was designed to offer more fluid action, allowing for seamless transitions as Connor switches weapons, battles groups of foes, clambers over forest snags, and performs stealth kills. Ubisoft's epic struggle between Assassins and Templars heads to a new location and a new era as gamers take control of Ratonhnhaké:ton, also known as Connor Kenway, a half-Mohawk and half-English rebel who battles for the liberation of his people in the years before, during, and after the American Revolution.
