BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL
Assassins Creed 3, a game thats been nominated for a series of awards including its win for having a Character Of The Year, is one of the coolest action-adventure games of all time.
The series name has appeared on a number of platforms, including PS3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Nintendo DS, PSP, PS Vita, iOS, HP webOS, smartphones, and even the Wii U. Thats a serious spread, which isnt surprising as its a serious game.The main Assassins Creed games were developed by Ubisoft, and the handheld titles were developed by Gameloft and Gryptonite Studios. Ubisoft is the third largest game publisher in the US, as it has created games like Far Cry, Petz, Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Just Dance, Rabbids, Rayman, Watch Dogs, and other big name titles.
Assassins Creed 3's story takes place in both the 21st century and 18th century colonial America, where youre in a huge wilderness known as the Frontier (which is 1.5 times bigger than rome in assassins creed: brotherhood, btw) the cities of Boston and New York, as well as portions of the Caribbean Sea. The game is based around Desmond Miles, a young man whose heritage comes with the responsibility to save lives by using a machine that allows him to travel back in time and re-live history's moments first-person through his ancestors eyes. His ancestor in AC3 is Ratonhnhaketon, aka Connor, a native-American tribal boy whose goal is to protect his natural land and home from the Templars and save it from being destroyed, before 21 December 2012, a day prophesied to hold the apocalypse, in the real world.
The graphics were pretty good. If youve been following me for a while, youd know by now that Im really cruicial on visual work, being that I want to get into game animation myself. I pay a lot of attention to little things, and in AC3 I have nothing to complain about. Theyre nice. Especially the cut scenes, (which my oh my theres a lot of, the writers had their hands full with this one), those look great and have digitally smooth aesthetics. The clothes, earth, scenery, materials, objects, and weapons look like how they should look. The only small thing that got a bit under my skin was that the speech doesnt match up perfectly with the mouth movements. Every syllable spoken looks the same as the next one. The game goes on though, and although a perfect game wouldnt have this problem, it really isnt that big of a deal. Graphic-freaks like me have to learn to suck it up and take it upon ourselves to make things look as best as they can when its our turn.
I really like Assassins Creed 3, I pay a lot more attention in my world history class now as it struck a new interest in me, and going over the American Revolution chapter, I felt like I had lived in that moment and I can tell the class more about it than the book could. I recommend AC3 not only to the obvious Assassins Creed series fans but also to the new ones just bearly jumping in, as well as to people who enjoy video games with big plots, to people who can envision themselves as a badass assassin, to people who love the sound of European accents, and to people who hope to have a newfound interest in social studies.
