Time Period ideas for AC3


How about Victorian London? To raise the scale even more for the AC games then the first contract should be Jack the Ripper. Or maybe we might not get a time period during AC3. Maybe we'll play as Desmond throughout the whole thing
List your ideas.


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I think they are heading somewhere around 1776 in North America. With all that Illuminati and freemason conspiracy theories it's predestined, I think.

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Even though they have been introduced in a very limited way, I still feel the hallmark of the AC games is the absence of guns. If you start to get to modern times of even the 18th century, the lack of guns really doesn't make much sense. But when you think of the series's gameplay, it would get totally mucked up with the liberal use of guns. It already seemed silly in AC2 when Vidic's men went after Desmond with stun batons in modern times,granted, they wanted him alive for his dna/memories, but they didn't have any nonlethal firearms? in 2012?

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I think if they do eventually make a game where you play as Desmond the whole game it will have guns but level design will have to be very good to make the flow still work. It would never work in the levels that are in the recent games, you're out in the open way too much. As far as the next time period goes the, American Revolution could be very interesting. Hard to say where everyone would stand though. The subject sixteen pieces seem to indicate that the Templars created and used capitalism to control people in America, which looks like a liberal developers cheap shot to capitalism to me. The whole reason the Assassin's are fighting the Templars is because they want to control everyone to give them a better life while the Assassin's think people should be able to choose whatever life they want. That is basically socialism/communism vs. capitalism. Of course, hopefully they will hit the real problem with capitalism which is not actually capitalism, but crony capitalism. (Businesses paying lobbyist to influence legislation) In which case Abstergo would be basically running a shadow gov't and influencing everything in the gov't. I don't know though I might have interpretted the puzzles wrong, but I sure don't seem to be the only one that caught onto that on the internet. We'll see though.

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I think it would be difficult for the series to go back in time (before the Crusades period of Assassin's Creed) considering the series story is headed in chronological order. Therefore I can't see anything before 1191, so the next game has to be set after 1507 (where Brotherhood ends).

The French Revolution (1789-1799) would make for a great time period, complete with some great buildings and architecture (Bastille, Versailles Palace, Notre dame cathedral) as well as some famous historical figures like King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Robespierre, Danton, Napoleon etc. It's an important, exciting, and an epoch making event just like the Italian Renaissance.

The only problem with this era is that firearms and cannons play a prominent part in warfare and fighting, something which the melee centric Assassin's Creed series might struggle to cope with.

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I'm from the future. It looks like your comment was read by developers because they made it come true in one of the worse AC yet... With Arno Dorian being the lead Assassin during the sh*tty French Revolution.

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I think they are heading somewhere around 1776 in North America. With all that Illuminati and freemason conspiracy theories it's predestined, I think.


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I've been stuck on French Revolution for a while...really want to see that

I do want however part of the game to be with Desmond in the modern day infiltrating temples (thinking of really badass platforming)I don't want it to turn into an Uncharted game though, just a bunch of temples out in the jungle and mountains and stuff...(not bashing uncharted i LOVE it)

I do NOT want WWII! and i think the designers recently stated somewhere that it wont be, thank god

I think as far as setting goes ACII wins all. But I happen to be a huge fan of Renaissance Italy much of my life. For me it'll be hard to beat ACII

but yeah to answer your question...French Revolution

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Desmond and modern times, I am thinking.

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Some people have suggested feudal Japan.

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Apparently it's Constantinople this time around. I still have bad associations with Constantinople having been stuck on it for too long in another game (not connected to Assassin's Creed).
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angelexposed, I'm curious what is this game? The only game I can thnink of that has Constantinople in it is some of the Total War games (RTW: Barbarian Invasion, Medieval Total War & Empire Total War).

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re: soue37-1, sorry I took so long to respond ( I could have sworn I had). The game I'm speaking of is Atlantica Online lol. It's a quest area you hit I think about level 85 or the likes and it was VERY difficult at the time, lol.



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Constantinople is the setting for Assassins Creed: Revelations. So far as I know, there's no known date or place for Assassins Creed 3.

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Copied and pasted from a thread I made on the AC2 boards...

I think the past plot could take place in colonial Mexico, after the Spanish arrive, in the early 1500s. Desmond's ancestor could be a Spaniard. It could incorporate the fall of the Mayan civilization and thus directly tie into the 2012 plot and the Mayan prophecy.

Also the present plot should involve a LOT more gameplay of a combat-based sort; shooting, fighting, etc. Probably in a major city that you could also free roam sandbox-style. Maybe Mexico City to depict the past-and-present of the same place. Modern Mexico City would be good because it has a lot of shantytowns like the ones in Rio which would make for good environments to jump and climb all over. It could include the siege of Tenochtitlan and the transition into it becoming Mexico City, the downfall of the remaining Mayan cities, etc. Your character could "switch sides" (yeah, yeah, I know, it's been done so many times....Pocahontas, Avatar etc....but sometimes invoking an old trope isn't always a bad thing if it's in a multi-faceted plot and isn't the entire focus of the story) and fight alongside the Mayans against Templars who are part of the Spanish colonialists. Perhaps there could be some sort of Mayan-Assassin alliance.

This seems like of all the possibilities it might conclude the game most fittingly. Also it would capitalize upon 2012 mania the most, and thus would probably sell most copies (since by then, when the game will be released, it seems obvious that 2012 mania will be in full swing). Of course I could be wrong and maybe Ubisoft have a better idea up their sleeves, but to me it seems like the obvious way to conclude the series. The imagery of the ending of AC2 also seems to highly allude to this with the Mayan temple shown during Minerva's monologue.

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That sounds pretty interesting.

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I don't think so. The previous two have ties to Christian history. I imagine the third will as well.

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did the trailer remind anyone else of "the patriot"? especially the scene with the hatchet?

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