Ubisoft: Assassin's Creed: Revelations will be, well, revealing

So, based on what was said, who wants to bet the game is released 12/21/12?

Cant wait. Im amazed how great brotherhood was, even though only being a year or so after 2.

Though it got boring near the end, too much ezio. >

This is what I was hoping for!

So, will the big reveal of the game be in or out of Animus

This is bullshit. The Assassin's Creed story started out so promising and then the ending of the second one jumped the shark so bad it went spinning off into orbit. Then, when everyone thought Ezio was a great character, they just milked it to death. It would be like taking a break between Mass Effect 2 and 3 and putting out two spin-off games dealing almost entirely with Wrex. If you have talented writers, they don't need 60-80 game hours to wrap up one character arc. Congrats, Assassin's Creed, you're the Madden of the action-adventure genre.

I'm still uneasy with annually releasing them all but i'l still get it, I like the storyline's too much.

That's one pissed off sandwich

I don't think I can take a fourth cliffhanger.

Hmm I just hope revelations looks different and plays a little different. The first 3 games look amazing, true eye candy in the visual department but there is only so much candy of the same flavour you can eat. The story is good but its spread so thinly i have found it difficult to engage with.
Still a fantastic game though!!

Am I the only one that thinks Altair was a better character than Ezio?

Sorry but I cant play another Assassin creed. Im burnt out with the look and gameplay of them. Plus the story just lost me after part 2.

One thing I'm concerned about the story in the AC series is that there's simply no real way of telling when the story will be "over". Since this is one of Ubi's flagship titles, I'm sure they don't know how long they'll run the series for either.

You get where I'm going with this? So long as Ubi can make money off the game, they'll keep adding to the story however many times they want. And while I appreciate they're taking the time to close a few plot threads in Revelations, I don't really want to get that vested in a story that doesn't seem to have any real structure. I dread the time when the AC series gets completely convoluted and Ubi decides to "reboot" it altogether.

Not to sound like a hater. I love the series. I just don't think there's any real way for Ubi to ever give a satisfying ending to the story, if there will even be one. And without that, what's the point of even getting into the story in the first place?

I don't really care, I bought 1 & 2. I won't buy another until 3 releases on this "yearly franchise."

Spoilers much? I know it's been a year, but just saying SPOILERS is not that hard

Will it be officially AC3? Because from what I remember the series is originally suppose to be a trilogy, now it's just 2 games and a few spin offs.

I love this game, and loved Ezio... This game was my favorite franchise when it first came out. I was so engrossed in it, the story and everything. After beating AC:Brotherhood.... I don't have that yearning to play more. I mean, yeah Ezio is a badass... but I want something new... something fresh. I would consider Desmond playing as himself with badass abilities fresh... But I guess Ubisoft is gonna milk one of my favorite franchises for all it's worth.

I love this game, and loved Ezio... This game was my favorite franchise when it first came out. I was so engrossed in it, the story and everything. After beating AC:Brotherhood.... I don't have that yearning to play more. I mean, yeah Ezio is a badazz... but I want something new... something fresh. I would consider Desmond playing as himself with badazz abilities fresh... But I guess Ubisoft is gonna milk one of my favorite franchises for all it's worth.

If releasing games that are such of high quality, and improvements over every earlier game is milking, I wish more companies would do it. A year is a decent enough amount of time to play through a game, and then want another similar game, in my opinion. Brotherhood surprised me, I didn't think I'd care much before I played it, but having thoroughly enjoyed 2 and Brotherhood after all I can't wait for another dose of milk. I suppose at some point the games will disappoint, but so far they've been great. Mixing all three characters sounds like it'll give us some variety, too, I'm excited.

I am excited to play this game and I have no doubt it will be fun, but I really wish they would have jumped forward in terms of time periods for each game. I thought after Assassin's Creed 2, they would jump to the late 18th century - during the social and political revolution in Europe, namely France. Then they could have moved on to the early 20th century with the industrial revolution, World War I and all. Definitely could have gotten some interesting gameplay and story-arching out of those settings.

This title is horrible. I expect more from Joystiq writers.

The good thing about them releasing so many games so close to each other is the price drops. When 'Brotherhood' was released I picked up 'II', when 'Revelations' is released I'll pick up 'Brotherhood' and so on.

They better release and conclude the game before Dec. 21, 2012.

I've been wanting to know what happens of Altair since AC, it's cool to have two games with Ezio, but Altair is who I started with and who I ultimately want to play as.

This will be the first AC game I buy used. Thanks online pass!

The "franchise milking" comments are apparently everywhere now... But why? There's only been one game that came out after a year (with a second one on the way). Has it been confirmed that AC3 (or god forbid, another spinoff) will be released a year after Revelations? If so, this will be the first I hear of that, and for now, I will consider that as Internet Propaganda.

Why are we hating on the "milking"? AC:B was incredible, somehow managing to take AC2 (which was ALSO incredible), and turning the quality up to 11. For all we know, AC:R could very well do the same thing, especially with A) Altair being back (everybody seemed to like his character), B)What we JUST read (some story points being resolved), and C)THERE'S LIKE, 50 MILLION PEOPLE WORKING ON THIS GAME EVERY YEAR! COD is understandably stale, 150 or so people working on the game, taking what was good and doing exactly that again is boring. But the AC series is so much more than that. We have constantly seen gameplay improvements, story improvements, and character improvements. But more than that, there are like 4 Ubisoft teams working on this game, HUNDREDS of people... Every year... Spending more man hours in one year than I would bet many studios spend in 2 or 3 years.

If making this series an annual release means that I get consistent improvements (which so far, I have been), I will gladly support Ubisoft and whatever they are doing with this game.