Ass Creed 3 poster leaked.

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AC is all about flailing, clunky facsimiles of parkour videos. I doubt they'll change that without pressure from ubishit to make it more "accessible".

Best viewed on mute due to terrible nu metal

Some sceenies

http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2012/03/assassins-creed-iii_02.html

damn you Hoaxmetal

Second shot sul posted: guerilla warfare in the frozen wilderness? White robe would almost make sense, then.

Hehe. Just noticed it now. The traditional red details are now blue. I wonder why...

I want to make sure people undestand something about AC: People like to dump on AC:Revelations. But the truth is, AC2, the installment of this series that has probably the best critical reception on the Interwebs, is every bit as shitty as what we see in this video. Enemies simply cannot swim, and when you go into the water, they clusterfuck each other on whatever solid surface is nearby and run around like morons. If they somehow fall into the water, they die. SOmeone basically said, "Aw fuck it, dev. deadline is coming up, let's just kludge this water shit, fucking 12 year olds won't notice anyway." And they were right.

And regardless of the water, the AI is still shit. I don't mean that they didn't code it well, rather that they made it retarded on purpose. You can be surrounded literally by 12 people, and they will stand in a circle around you, one will occasionally attack you, then you can count slowly to 8 or so, and another one will attack you. One at a time. ALl you have to do is hold down the run key and zig-zag about, and you are immortal. If you climb a wall, then fall down on the ground, they wait for you to slowly stand up, then once again do their one-at-a-time winning attack strategy. The AI was obviously made to suck BY DESIGN, which is why I despise the people who publish this game. It could have been a decent game, goddammit.

Apparently people dislike AC:R, and they think AC:2 is better than the first, so I guess that this is literally as good as AC gets.

Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself here but if you have to hunt to survive that would be a huge incline for the series if they could avoid making it super tedious.

They'll cut it after playtesting reveals it to be "Too hard :'("

Take away the relatively well realized medieval and renaissance cities and you are left with awful combat, a retarded plot, moronic renditions of historical figures and events and climbing trees.

I liked how they integrated fairly minor Renaissance figures into the main plot in AC2. In any case, I found Ezio surprisingly likeable, with a reasonably competent character arc. Stripped of this, all that remains is their shitty Templar-Assassin-conspiracy meta-narrative penned by a fucking Daily Show writer, which was the focus of Bruddahud/Revelations

Having thoroughly enjoyed AC2 but found Brotherhood disappointing, is Revelations worth a play?

Only if there's snow.

For you? No. Revelations is pretty much the same shit as Brotherhood.

Goddamn that looks retarded. Why don't they just put the Master Chief into the 18th century and call it "Halo: America Fuck Yeah!"?

Well, I think the jump to this AMERICA FUCK YEAH! setting was a little bit too fast, they could save it for AC4 or AC3+. I would appreciate one more game in a predominantly European setting, between Renaissance and this. On the other hand, this setting is very underused so whatever.

Anyway, these two in particular caught my attention. Pay attention to the feet and the terrain, it looks very circumstantial, in "sync with the moment":




Deformable snow surfaces? It looks very peculiar in those screens.

Technically, if the terrain matrix is treated like that of a water surface, except with (probably) temporary deformation -which would actually be less taxing than a water surface with waves because the game wouldn't need to run the additional calculations to stabilise the surface back to the flat default values but could be incremented towards default values progressively or instantly if the player is gone for too long- this is completely viable and could be visually satisfying with the right art assets as procedural debris to cover the sharp edges. And correct me if I'm wrong but it would likely be a first in games (not terrain deformation/destruction but particular rendition of "interactive" snow in a 3D game).

Very curious to see how this will turn out.

edit: Just remembered there were no matrix/polygonal waves in the series before.

Templars = freemasons, genius.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/28/to-the-axed-cave-lost-batman-game-gotham-by-gaslight/

Interactive snow has been done back as far as Dead or Alive 3 on the Xbox if I recall, and has been seen in several other games, like the Uncharted series. Snow just isn't too common a setting for detailed action games and it's rarely deemed a big priority if your game is going to have just one "snow level."

Those screens give me a lot of Snake Eater vibes and I loved MGS3. I hope they don't go too far with glorifying AMERICA but looking at the gameinformer scans it looks like the American Revolution is more like a background setting to the actual story (the usual Assassins vs Templars stuff) and that there will be good and bad people on both sides. I don't know I actually think this game will be pretty good

Revelations is pretty similar to Brotherhood but has a better story. That's about it really.

Good thing they're offering more than just climbing every available surface in Boston while baffled authorities helplessly yell.

I mean, St Paddy's is right around the corner!