Assassin's Creed 3 takes place in...

[Mazakiel]

I'd call AC 1 worth playing, but keep in mind that the later entries improved a lot of the suckier aspects of AC 1, so if you find yourself bogged down and about to give up altogether, read the plot online or watch some Youtube videos, and jump into AC 2.  The gameplay was much more fun from AC 2 forward. 

As to the bombs, yeah, after I got the tutorials done, I didn't use but one or two varieties.  They were neat, but not as neat as they obviously thought they were.  They had to have been someone's pet project for awhile, because they were asking about the bombs in surveys to people I think after the original AC2. 

[Rendakor]

I'd say skip AC1 and start with 2. I hated the first one for how repetitive it was and had written the series off entirely until a friend all but forced me to play AC2. It's head and shoulders better, imo.

[Azazel]

America

http://tubedubber.com/#amAVgQ8ef3g:IhnUgAaea4M:0:100:0:0:1

Awesome!

edit -

I played and enjoyed Assassins Creed 1 when it came out. Finished it, even. Worth giving it a shot for sure.

[Hawkbit]

I just saw an ad for this during March Madness basketball games.  It was at least 20 seconds... for a game that comes out in October, it seems a bit early.  They must be sure they have a real gem on their hands.

[Samwise]

I played and enjoyed Assassins Creed 1 when it came out. Finished it, even. Worth giving it a shot for sure.

Let the record reflect that you also really liked Borderlands.   

[K9]

stolen from Reddit

[Azazel]

I played and enjoyed Assassins Creed 1 when it came out. Finished it, even. Worth giving it a shot for sure.

Let the record reflect that you also really liked Borderlands.   

So did lots of us. Though in the end, I played Borderlands on it's native format: XBox 360.   

[Tebonas]

Humanity had more gruesome wars than the American revolution before lunch. That statement is retarded beyond comprehension.

[Maledict]

Humanity had more gruesome wars than the American revolution before lunch. That statement is retarded beyond comprehension.

I think once we saw the front cover was him tomahawking a redcoat you could pretty much bet this entire game was going to be retarded beyond comprehension.

As hokey and silly as it was I quite liked the AC universe and storyline, but this game just seems dreadful. The Patriot was a shit enough film as it was without being turned into a game.

[Chimpy]

The American Revolution wasn't even more gruesome than the Civil War. Much less the crazy wars in the rest of the world.

[tmp]

Assassin's Creed, now with Kinect

second half kinda makes me wish it was real

[Azazel]

Second half made me twig to the fact that it was a gag. It was well done, though...

[Venkman]

The American Revolution wasn't even more gruesome than the Civil War. Much less the crazy wars in the rest of the world.

That's the part that bothers me too. They just blew their chance to use that line for the inevitable Civil War setting.

They had a 15 minute walkthrough video of the game at Pax East. I barely played AC1, but have played all the others since and really enjoyed them. The changes coming in 3 though look as good as advertised. Even just watching the video, it "felt" different enough to refine some of the dumber stand around and watch/limited NPC count/limited cover issues.

[jakonovski]

The latest Mel Gibson's Creed trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EiVJG_mrtFo

[HaemishM]

That setting really really clashes with the whole Assassin's Creed vibe.

[KallDrexx]

The parts with the solders looked cool, the parts with the main character looked cool, but when they were intermixed in the same scene everything just felt off.  Running through buildings looked awesome though.

[Minvaren]

Agreed, climbing then running through a building looked  .

...though the wanton slaughter of redcoats in the middle of a lush green field with -0- cover would be more plausible if every single one of them didn't have a gun...

[NiX]

The latest Mel Gibson's Creed trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EiVJG_mrtFo

I'm a little confused. How can they have that much "gameplay" and it still be pre-alpha?

[Samwise]

That video was slightly over 2 minutes long and most of it wasn't gameplay.  They usually aim to make these things what, six hours at least?  They could be a very long way from a fully functional "alpha" version of the game.

[tmp]

A better question could be how they're planning to release it in November when it's supposedly in pre-alpha less than six months from that date... but maybe that's old footage by now and they're already in "alpha for real" or whatever.

[UnSub]

Call the footage "pre-alpha", use it to deflect any criticism of how things look.

[Tebonas]

Sorry, all I could think during this video was "Way to blend in there, dumbass". Assassin school standards have gone down since the old days obviously.

[Samwise]

The assassins didn't blend in very well in earlier versions of the game earlier, that I recall.

[Tebonas]

But the people certainly had a way to ignore that hooded stranger in their midst, while this video made a point how out of place the character looks to the others.

Its easier to ignore this disconnect if the NPCs do as well is all I'm saying.

[Murgos]

The whole thing would have made about 10x more sense and been about 50x cooler and still used 99% of the same art assets to put it in London & Paris during the Napoleonic wars.

[Goumindong]

The assassins didn't blend in very well in earlier versions of the game earlier, that I recall.

It wasn't as bad in the first one since a white hooded robe wouldn't be too out of place. But in the second [and on] no one dresses at all like he does. Its a big fat "Me, i am the assassin, its me" sign.

They modified the garb to look better for the time but didn't remove the hood. If Ezio Gibson was wearing a tricorne that was curved downward and pointed in the front like the hood is. Then i could see it working, but it just becomes even more garish each time I see it.

[UnSub]

I always dye my outfit ASAP in AC games. The Assassin outfit just doesn't blend with the crowds and it breaks my immersion that the guards don't just stab anyone wearing white head to foot on sight.

And then there was the Romulus armour. Jesus, it's like they started out designing the ugliest armour they could, then added fur accessories. And again, very conspicuous.

[calapine]

Michael Fassbender To Star In ASSASSIN’S CREED, The Movie

Oh my. I like him...really hope he isn't going the Liam-Neeson-sellout-for-money-route.

[Lakov_Sanite]

So he won't be stabbing them with a wrist-mounted blade anymore? 

[Maledict]

Just watched the new trailer for this and impressed by how the developers have gone completely against the lore of the first two games - its absolutely being advertised as 'slaughter the British for FREEDOM! With George Washington extra' despite the fact the earlier games had Washington as a Templar and the entire American revolution being a Templar project to give them a more direct control over a country.

I dunno, I guess it's to be expected from a game series that had you punch the pope, but on one level I was hoping it would challenge some of the myths the USA has about the war of independence. The main character is a Mohawk and they fought on the side of the British for goodness sakes!

[Hawkbit]

iirc the newest trailer was created to air during football games.  Aiming to sell as many copies to the meathead crowds as possible.  I can't say for sure, but I don't think it was meant to fly in the face of the lore.

This is still day one purchase for me.  I can't wait to see what they've done with this era.

[CmdrSlack]

This is still day one purchase for me.  I can't wait to see what they've done with this era.

This.

[Minvaren]

This is still day one purchase for me.  I can't wait to see what they've done with this era.

This.

Since the (full) ending of AC1, I've been itching to see how the story ends.  Day 1 for me as well, especially given the deprecated DRM.

[Kail]

I'ma wait for the reviews.  I liked AC2, but I'm not entirely convinced yet that this isn't going to be free of Team America: World Police wankery, or at least low enough that I can stomach it.  The story has already been one long tease/cliffhanger after another, and assuming they don't Bioware the ending, I can wait for a GOTY edition or something if there's too many "we must save America... FOR FREEEEEEDOOOOOOM" bugle solos in it.

Nothing against Ubisoft or the series, really, this just seems too politically charged for them to have their usual brand of "George Washington got his magic powers from a set of enchanted dentures once worn by alien Jesus" fun with it.  But we'll see.

[Ingmar]

I'm not especially worried about that, given the game is being made by a studio in Montreal, owned by a company in France. But I guess they were on our side during the Revolution.