Rumor: Assassin's Creed 3 takes place during American Revolution, stars Native American [update]

by Xav de Matos on Feb 29th 2012 8:19PM

According to promotional art images snagged by a Best Buy employee, Ubisoft's next entry in the Assassin's Creed series will take place during the American Revolution. The image [via Kotaku] features an assassin in front of the original Continental flag.

The hero appears to be Native American, but it's unclear. According to the source, the supposed star of Assassin's Creed 3 carries a tomahawk in one of his his unseen hands.

Ubisoft had previously announced Assassin's Creed 3 was due to hit store shelves by the end of October.

Update: The complete image can be seen after the jump, complete with the Assassin's Creed symbol used as the blade of the tomahawk!

Source: Kotaku, Image

Tags: assassins-creed-3, microsoft, pc, playstation, ps3, xbox

Reader Comments (194)

I love how they continue to find new time periods where this kind of game would work....

@Timjoy
Me too, though it would have been more welcomed to have different time periods for the last two games. They really milked Ezio's character.

@mywhitenoise

And they're going to milk this character, or at least give him 2 spin offs.
Ubisoft has clearly set a trend. the 1st came out in 07 i think, and before the sequel came in 09, there were two other creedy games. Then after 09, after the "sequel" came out, we've had 3 more creedy games since then.
When this one comes out, we should expect 4 other spin offs, but hey its just a trilogy, right guys? So was modern warfare....

@HighFiveJesus
Rahhh facts are bad!

@HighFiveJesus

Why does this matter if people love the Milk that this Amazing Gaming-teat provides?

@Timjoy http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20100329

Ctrl-Alt-Del called this back in 2010! Well... half of it anyways!

@Timjoy
Also, check out this painting and imagine an assassin on those rooftops:

http://www.framingham.com/history/profiles/crispus/crispus-boston-massacre_600x448.jpg

@HighFiveJesus

Facts are not bad, but you're skewing the data in your favor.

The first game back in 2007 had no spin-offs made by Ubisoft Montreal. There was a DS and a PSP installment, neither of which are referenced in the main series so are decidedly non-canon. Hell, one was put out by GAMELOFT.

While with AC2 there is some merit to your claim, BroHood originally was planned as an expansion pack to add MP to AC2. Then they decided to extend the story a bit. Then Revelations was made to close the side-story gap so when AC3 releases there are no loose ends.

So while you are stating some facts, you're skewing the interpretation of those facts. It's also the equivalent of saying that Lord of the Rings was milking the Hobbit. There was an original story with closure, but then they decided to extend the story and create a larger overall arch. Considering I can't find any stories in video games remotely close to AC's epic-scale conspiracy theory design, I am all for them taking their time and using as many games as needed to flesh it out.

@Punkrawk Bbob My main beef with AC:R is that they clearly milked the franchise too much. It's by far the weakest of the Ezio trilogy. The story isn't compelling, there are lots of disparate elements from different developer teams that feel added to pad the game (tower defense, book search, chariot chases, Animus levels), the new ideas are not that great (the zip lines), it lacks solo missions and it feels less like a natural extension of the previous entry than a stop-gap measure to give Ubi something to sell before the main team delivers a worthy sequel.
The funny thing is that I had gripes when Brotherhood was announced, fearing that it would be a worthless expansion. Then I played it and found out that they had so many good ideas for ACII that they couldn't develop all of them in time and that Brotherhood was actually the second part of a two-parter. And I was expecting Ubi to achieve the same thing with Revelations but it was more scraping the bottom of the barrel.

@Timjoy

Red Dead Creed 3

@Dwigt

I have not made my way through AC:R yet so I can not speak on that level. Honestly not a fan of the rennassiance Italy, but the future Desmond stuff kept me going. The characters are good, but man that setting kills me.

American Revolution sounds great though. I would have also dug a Russian WWI setting. Involving like Rasputin somehow would not have been hard.

@Summit Actually it would've been cool if these new screenshots had shown a female assassin. It would've added both to the "freshness" of the story and to the appeal of the franchise.

Yes! Yes! Yes! YYYeeeessss!!!!!

@rambo8

OMFGGG!! Finally something set during the American revolution! TOTAL WIN!!!

Tatanka

@Vidaluko
Yeah he was a great wrestler back in the day

That dude has one seriously diverse family tree.

@Fuzunga Yeah, that's a good point. Unless desmond is Italian/Native American, this wouldn't make sense.

@Fuzunga

And a pretty badass one at that.

@Fuzunga Remember that Altair is not Ezio's descendant. Somewhere their family trees cross, though.

@Arsenic13

Well, to be fair, the main reason that Altair isn't Ezio's descendant is because Altair is older than Ezio...

@Fuzunga
Desmond's great (x20) grandaddy was Genghis Khan, he can re-live YOUR memories if he wants to.

@Punchdrunkbrian

I thought he was? Didn't Altair and that Maria chick get funky with one another, leading to a child, leading eventually to Ezio?

@Fuzunga
Not really if you think about it. Your family tree grows exponentially as you track it back, so diversity is going to happen. Odds are if you look back far enough, you can find a common relative with just about anyone.

@(Unverified)

I'd be surprised, and thrilled, if it was an actual Native American character. What I expect is that it will be a white American "influenced" by NA culture. Something along the lines of Dances with Wolves.

@Courtney

nah, he really doesn't look white. his skin obviously has a darker hue. it wouldn't be the first time a native has starred in a videogame.

@Liquidfingers

but a first time they haven't hunted dinosaurs

@Fuzunga Technically most people do. Humans have some serious issues with genetic diversity due to being wiped out twice while still in Africa. At one point we were down to 10,000 or so humans due to what was believed to be a volcanic event in Northern Africa.

At another it's thought humans may have even been wiped out down to around 1-3 thousand people.

Not to mention, all Europeans, Asians, and other non African people's all are actually descended from the same small group that left Africa in one isolated event. A group so small it was as few as 300-600 people.

Possibly one tribe, only hundreds led to the population of Asia, which then split off and migrated into Europe and the pacific islands and Americas.

And if you're from the Americas or Canada, there's no telling what sort of ancestry your parents are combining going back only 150 years. A large percentage of North America colonists has at least one indigenous ancestor.

Humans get around.

@Liquidfingers
Wrong. Ever play Prey? Tommy, the main character is a native American

@Soldier4Hire
I must apologize for not fully reading your comment, lol

Well, this will be different. I thought their other idea of a female assassin during WWII sounded cool.
Anyways...

GUESS WHO'S WALMART STOCKED MASS EFFECT 3 EARLY? MINE. GUESS WHO'S HOLDING THE CE AS HE TYPES THIS? ME. ME ME ME ME ME.

@King Johngie the Fourth

What?! You...you jive turkey, you...

I...I may have to slap you across the jaw for your luckiness.

On AC, one writer at Ubisoft said he would never be on board with a WWII idea at all due to its frequency in games as it is.

@King Johngie the Fourth
That Walmart is going to have a lot of Street Date break fees, 10K a pop

@Nolan North

Good. I hate them.

On AC, that's disappointing, seeing as there are hardly any "brand name" WWII shooters nowadays.

@King Johngie the Fourth

Not giving money to Wal-Mart > Having ME3 early.

Can't wait to see the controversy around who you have to assassinate

@Ryujin

Maybe they'll avoid that with some made-up "bad guy" soldiers murdering native Americans. Raping the land as it were.

@Ryujin : I humbly predict: http://www.google.ca/imgres?q=Ratcliffe&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&biw=784&bih=771&tbm=isch&tbnid=ezvSm-6xRyYBNM:&imgrefurl=http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/File:Governor_Ratcliffe_1.jpg&docid=9MX8YxTr14jKxM&imgurl=http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110422163004/disney/images/archive/3/38/20120110053115!Governor_Ratcliffe_1.jpg&w=400&h=299&ei=GtpOT9asFuLW0QGLgs2vBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=241&vpy=174&dur=2454&hovh=194&hovw=260&tx=145&ty=114&sig=117487800677529675226&page=1&tbnh=111&tbnw=142&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0

@Ryujin
If there was ever a final boss it would be Jeffrey Amherst. Homeboy led crushing military victories against France and their friends the Indians in the French-Indian War, slaughtered thousands of Indians in Pontiac's Rebellion, and arranged for smallpox infected blankets be traded to the natives. If the Native Americans wanted to kill anybody it'd be this asshole.

Plus he was commander-in-chief of Britain's military, so you don't have to worry about pissing off Americans by killing Benjamin Franklin or something.

Every time I did an Eagle Dive into a pile of hay, I would yell "Geronimo!"

@Butmac thats a pretty good one lol

Anyone else hope this is just a rumor? Colonial America just doesn't seem exotic or fun to me for an AC game (and before you flame, I'm American).

@FlashJS
It actually sounds like a nice change of atmosphere to me.

@FlashJS I agree, Victorian London would of been more interesting, or any of the other rumoured ideas.

@FlashJS sounds like a boring setting to me too. Changing setting is ok and all, but not sure about THIS particular one.

@FlashJS You may have a point. AC games are about urban stealth craziness, and the colonies at that point didn't really have much in the way of bustling cities and impressive architecture.

@FlashJS

No offense, but I couldn't disagree more. Colonial America is a setting that's barely been touched in video games, and I'm eager to see how they tackle it.

@FlashJS

I'm just concerned about the lack of tall structures to climb in colonial America, mostly.

@FlashJS

Colonial America is relatively unexplored on consoles, save for that time-travelling FPS game that came out a year or two ago.

@Barron
what about newly built towns and villages around ports and dock yards, nestled in the midst of extremely large and dense forests and mountainous areas?

I see a vast area to be climbed and jumped from to be honest =]

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