Assassin’s Creed Revelations announced

The rest of the industrialized world will have beaten AC3 by the time you roll around to Revelations.

 

That looks fake to me, or at least lazy.

And I'll be disappointed if this is about the American Revolution and not the French Revolution, which is far better a setting for the series, IMO.

 

I'm sorry, but... the beaked hood and the hatchet shaped like the Assassin symbol is just too much for me. The hood would have stood out in a bad way during the American Revolution, and the hatchet is just silly. And so much for "I am not a bird": look at his forehead.

Please have more playable Desmond, AC3. Please.

 

I loved Ezio's look from the start, and really loved his new design for Brotherhood.

And IIRC, the AC Wiki states that the Founding Fathers weren't Templars, but that the Masonic Order they were part of (and whose imagery appears in various ways in the US) were an offshoot of the Templars. So maybe they were Templars who broke off, and thus that was the "real" reason for the American Revolution? Either way, the Templars do take over, as every president from at least FDR (possibly Wilson) onward, sans JFK, were Templars. FDR even founded Abstergo.

And I still say Revolutionary France is a better setting than the American Revolution.

 

Boston, New York, and Philadelphia were large in the sense that they were metropolitan, sure. But they weren't very vertical, and Ubisoft tried to get more vertical heights into Revelations because the free running mechanics were more about using rooftops as steps than actually navigating cities.

I think we're in for something like Assassin's Creed 2, where you spend a surprising amount of time on the ground in cities. I'd also imagine that whatever is lost in terms of free running cityscapes will be made up for by countryside sequences. Maybe hiding in a forest and ambushing someone ala The Patriot.

 

IGN: The hidden history of Assassin's Creed 3

Just some Captain Obvious stuff about the released images, including "speculation" that the guy on the back cover of Game Informer with the blue coat and tri-corner hat is George Washington. (Duh.)

Ezio killed everyone at night.

 

I just caught this. Altair and Ezio are NOT related. This was confirmed at E3 last year when they were showing off Revelations. They are separate bloodlines whose descendants, among others who were supposed to be important people but aren't named, eventually produce Desmond.

 

Man, did I call it or did I call it?

And the mention of seasons is interesting. That tells me two things: one, this takes place over at least a full year, rather than several days in each year as in AC2; and two, we're totally getting a Valley Forge memory.

Lastly, Charles Lee is an interesting choice. He wanted to be the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army but lost out to Washington. So I'd guess that they're going to play up the Mason backgrounds of Washington et al with Lee being a normal guy.

 

Connor has an interesting background. It's going to be hard to top Ezio, but picking an ancestor from wildly varying backgrounds to round out a trilogy about a guy with wildly varying backgrounds seems like a good decision.

Just, send him to France, Ubisoft. Please.

 

In engine in the sense that, like all AC trailers, they're CG but portray actions you can do in game. Watch the Brotherhood trailer: it's CG but Ezio throws knives, double stabs, summons arrow storms, and calls the brotherhood for a melee fight.

By the way, it's great that someone has taken up my mantle of posting AC news now that I have a new job, but we should probably move the last couple of pages to a dedicate AC3 thread.