It’s been an exciting week for fans of the Assassin’s Creed series – with numerous Assassin’s Creed 3 details and screenshots leaking out ahead of more official pieces of marketing.
However, while screenshots, gameplay details, and story spoilers have all slipped out from under Ubisoft‘s cloud of secrecy (largely due to forum-postings with scans of an upcoming Game Informer feature), the game publisher has successfully withheld one especially exciting tease – the first official Assassin’s Creed 3 trailer.
Despite all of the Assassin’s Creed 3 information that has leaked, aside from box art and an official release date, the trailer is only the third official AC3 reveal from Ubisoft itself. Teased only a few short days ago as a nondescript countdown, we now have our first look at Connor from Assassin’s Creed 3 in motion – of course we’ll still have to wait for a gameplay trailer to see how the installment’s various combat updates actually work in-game.
Check out the first Assassin’s Creed 3 trailer below:
Unsurprisingly, the trailer focuses heavily on the new American Revolution time period – as well as what the setting can mean for the actual gameplay experience (tree traversal, for example). Cinematic trailers may not contain actual gameplay – but, even if they are designed to rouse player interest (without giving away the actual mechanics), teasers like this one do tend to set the stage for what players can expect from the core experience. Earlier Assassin’s Creed series trailers focused heavily on “blending” and stealth killing (a major focus in Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed 2), where as trailers for Brotherhood and Revelations were much more action-oriented – a tonal shift that was representative of the larger set-pieces in those respective games. Considering Assassin’s Creed 3 still features a white hooded assassin, walking amongst men wearing red coats and tricorn hats, it’s somewhat unclear at this point how important “blending” will be this round (when in town) – since Ezio and Altair’s iconic outfits were more time-period appropriate.
That said, if there’s one thing players can count on, as evidenced by the trailer, it’s that Assassin’s Creed 3 will deliver some pretty epic battle sequences – set in historical events that should be much more familiar for North American gamers than say the rise of Pope Alexander VI. Whether or not this familiarity will ultimately enhance, or detract, from the experience (given the fictionalization of the events) will certainly depend on how well the writing team implements protagonist Connor into American history. They’ve established a solid pedigree of success so far in the series – hopefully the move to the American Revolution is a step (in time and space) in the right direction.
Check out this week’s Game Ranter Banter for a point-counter-point reaction to the Assassin’s Creed 3 reveal.
Assassin’s Creed 3 will be released on October 30, 2012 for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
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soo did they get ridd of the hidden wrist blade or what?
IGN confirms the Hidden Blade is still used. I no know why it no on trailer, though.
its called a hidden blade for a reason.
+1 haha
no oh my god no stop asking about the hidden blade its still in there wow…people do your research!
Damn. American Revolution? – I would have gone with an Asian (Samurai or ninja) setting instead…
Still, the AC games haven’t disappointed so far, so I’m gonna give them the benefit of the doubt. I’m holding thumbs.
@TheAvenger
Well, the reason is it based in America is because Ubisoft needed a way to get Desmond’s ancestors into the United States. Also, seeing as that this Revolutionary War is one of the most important wars in history, as it was the start of one of the world’s great superpowers. Asia did not have much going on that affected the entire world like this did.
I see your point, but ive had enough samurai ninja games to hold me over until I die, and ive certainly had enough of the renascence. the american revolution is a largely unexplored time for games. I think it was the perfect move.
Victorian London would have been a good choice, lots of tall buildings and famous landmarks to jump from. In this the tallest thing Connor has to jump from is… a tree.
That would have been a better option…
@ThatGuy & MikePitcher: I see your points, but I was speaking from the player’s/gamer’s standpoint – jumping off of trees is fun and all, but when you’re used to famous cities, large buildings and butt loads of (climbable) historical moments, then you can’t really settle for anything less IMO.
Now, if I were basing my statement on the plot/story of the AC games… then that’s a completely different ball game…
This trailer just didn’t do it for me.
Not really meant to be a trailer. It’s supposed to be a teaser. And those cities weren’t exactly to scale, and some weren’t even in the correct time period. So they’ll probably tweak the cities to be epic, and they are upgrading the basic parkour abilities of the assassins without using gadgets to do it.
we didn’t see him in any Of the big cities in this trailer, like New York and Philedelphia, which Were large cities with big structures and buildings at this time period… Do you think American cities in the main colonies are po-dunk little one street towns with one-story buildings like the frontier towns of the Wild West? Go re-study your Early American history, buddy
Thats exactly what I think they were like.
well, then you’d be wrong
Here’s a link to a pic which gives you and idea of what Revolutionary War era Boston was like
http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/armydiversity/4248762829/
here’s a view of the whole of Philadelphia frOm the era
http://www.archives.gov/research/military/american-revolution/pictures/images/revolutionary-war-026.jpg
Next time think about actually doing some research
Nice trailer
Anyone notice that the Animus lines on the hat and cloth that rolled around on the snow in the beginning of the video. Could be a signal that whatever state that the Animus is in, it ain’t good.
Confirmation of a Hidden Blade. Just not in the trailer.
Well, that was hugely disappointing…
I get that it’s just a teaser. But remember how amazing the teaser for Revelations was? It was legendary.
DSB – I had the same thought. I like this trailer but… it definitely didn’t have the style of the Revelations trailer.
Revelations just had such a great trailer, so stylish, I suppose anything would seem a disappointment after that. And to be fair, fans were emotionally invested because it was Ezio.
I still think has the potential to be amazing, and I understand that lots of people think the AC franchise was becoming stale and needed a swift boot up the backside.
Which this clearly is. I just hope it doesn’t lose what made it such an amazing franchise in the first place.
I love that teaser! But I hated the actual trailer. Music was good though.
I agree.
IMO this wasn’t a bad trailer, but it really didn’t meet my expectations.
Like I said, so far, AC hasn’t disappointed, so I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt – at least until a full trailer and some game play footage arrives…
Lol, the hood has always been a problem. And Ezio’s has never been grounded in the time period, he looks like no other npc or the others he hangs around with.
I guess the Americans will simply chalk it up to his Native american background as displayed by the animal skins and leather integrated into his outfit.
I’m all for the new environment, more or less buildings. New combat, etc. I think this game will be very interesting. I was completing Revelations at a snails pace but after hearing of AC3, I’ve been playing as often as I can.
I don’t really know what to say… I was getting way to excited for this game from all the infos and whatnot. And I mean REALLY excited. But after watching this trailer…or teaser I should say, I didn’t really get something as epic as I was expecting. I mean all the footage was epic CGI, but..there was something missing, something ACish..like most people have mentioned above, the previous AC’s CGI teasers and trailers were too epic, SPECIALLY Revelation’s one which REALLY got us pumped. I’m still freaking excited for this game, but this reveal wasn’t as ULTRA epic as I expected it to be, maybe it was just cause of all the pics and info I already learned, idk.
Oh and one other thing, this whole game better not be a whole patriotic speech about praising America or Britain or whatnot, cause that’ll really piss me off. Thing I LOVED about the previous AC games was how we can go to all these places with different races and whatnot, but even when the baddies were from specific nationalities, the games never promoted a certain country and all and kept it pretty neutural, which is something I really liked. If this game, last one in this trilogy, turns out to be praising America or England or something, I’d really get mad, really.
Yeah America!