Assassin's Creed 3: Where/when should it take place?

[UglyShirts]

After the end off ACII, I'm surprised more people didn't come to the conclusion that I did. I think that you're going to take full control of Desmond in the "present" and take part in his fight against the templars. I mean, they basically handed you all the abilities of Ezio in that warehouse tutorial level thing right in the middle of the game, and why give Desmond the abilities if he isn't going to use them?

I'd be disappointed if there wasn't SOME of that, but toward the end of the game. Finish it off in the here and now, yes.

But...At the end of AC2 [SPOILERS, OF COURSE], they did take the Animus with them when they left the warehouse. Clearly, Lucy and the others still feel like they have some DNA regression to do. So, while it seems like the END of the series would have to take place in the present, with Desmond using all of the skills he picked up form Altaïr and Ezio to lay down the smack on the Templars, there are still a few puzzle pieces that need to be found before that can happen.

 

[The Eggplant]

I'm fairly sure that ACIII is going to be the logical conclusion of the series, putting Desmond himself through the wringer against the Knights Templar.

That said, if the series continues the regression mechanic, I'd be all for Victorian England. Guns might make life a little difficult, sure, but conversely it might just mean that Ubisoft amps up the stealth aspect of the gameplay a little more, since Random-Ancestor-Number-3 would now have to factor in his marks' increased defensive capabilities. Not like 19th century firearms were incredibly reliable anyway...

Also, @UglyShirts: if you want to spoiler something,

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is like this.

 

[krader2012]

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[UglyShirts]

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Interesting. Clearly, I'm not the only one thinking about this. Seems pretty obvious that there are certain elements that everyone's thought about (political/historical context, time prgression, the gun problem, etc.), and there are a lot of schools of thought regarding times and places that would work given the established template.

Of course, this is a series that lends itself well to a deeper thought process, so it's really not surprising.

 

[DannibalG36]

I really hope that Screed III will take place... IN RUSSIA. DURING THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

After all, several of the glyph puzzles in Screed II note that Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar, had some sort of special staff, which was taken by Rasputin to Siberia. Also, according to Screed I, the Tunguska event is somehow connected with the Pieces of Eden. A great many of the tsar's treasures could be "recast" as Pieces of Eden as well. Finally, a lot of the buildings in Moscow and St. Petersburg look as if they were made just for an Assassin to climb (I just came back from Russia).

Also, the Russian Revolution has a great story arc. You could go from killing revolutionaries to killing Communist officials, all of which were disappearing in great numbers over the course of thirty years (the game time of Screed II).

 

[DannibalG36]

After the end off ACII, I'm surprised more people didn't come to the conclusion that I did. I think that you're going to take full control of Desmond in the "present" and take part in his fight against the templars. I mean, they basically handed you all the abilities of Ezio in that warehouse tutorial level thing right in the middle of the game, and why give Desmond the abilities if he isn't going to use them?

I'm kinda looking forward to it. Assassin's Creed gameplay in a near-future setting could be incredibly fun.

That gameplay would probably be very fun indeed. Mirror's Edge in third person, anyone?

However, I think that Ubisoft just has too much great historical material they could work with. Jumping right into Desmond's story would be a radical departure from the steady development of gameplay we have seen so far. Besides, the end cinematics to Screed II hint that Desmond will be spending more time in the Animus, both in the van mentioned (how does that work?) and in a "place up north." Perhaps we'll have Desmond digging through more memories and simply practicing in his own time?

 

[UglyShirts]

I really hope that Screed III will take place... IN RUSSIA. DURING THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.

Wow. That's also a really viable possibility. Imagine swan-diving off of the minarets at St. Basil's, or creeping along the battlements of the Kremlin.

Great idea.

 

[UglyShirts]

Jumping right into Desmond's story would be a radical departure from the steady development of gameplay we have seen so far. Besides, the end cinematics to Screed II hint that Desmond will be spending more time in the Animus, both in the van mentioned (how does that work?) and in a "place up north." Perhaps we'll have Desmond digging through more memories and simply practicing in his own time?

That was more or less what it seemed to ME they were leading up to: Hoping to be able to get away just long enough to let Desmond finish up his regression in the Animus, find the artifact, and then use it to squash Abstergo and the Templars for good. So, more or less a game structured with the bulk of the gameplay in a final round of historical context before bringing it back to the present for the denouement.

As for the van, it must have a HELL of an auxiliary power supply.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I think the Cold War could work if they did it right.

 

[Dys]

3000 years into the future, in what used to be the altantic ocean


ww2 would suck (we've all had enough of killing nazi's)... medieval japan might be nice, but then you'd basically be playing tenchu. if the problem with the future is too much gunpowder, they could just have it be a DYSTOPIAN future where there is no gunpowder, though it would be difficult to tackle the science and we've probably been there only slightly less than ww2 to be honest...

But wouldn't it be interesting to have WW2 from a non american perspective. Playing as someone involved in the spanish civil war (not strictly ww2, but similar time period), or how about during Mussolinis reign of italy? There's a fuckload more to WW2 than the exaggerated American involvement the mainstream media is in love with. If it was done right, the game could be amazing if it was set in the late 1930s.

That said, I'd also be happy with Victorian era England or sometime during the Russian revolution. I think they're probably going to revisit ezio though, I seem to recall hearing that somewhere.

 

[Shock and Awe]

You freaking took my idea! The second I saw this thread I thought Victorian England, and bahm, there it is in the OP. =D

 

[Torodugoru]

If we go with the Desmond theory I'm guessing it's going to take place, at least in part, in Canada. Near the end of the game they mention heading to a cabin 'up north' and Ubisoft Montreal is, obviously, Canadian.

 

[Seth Smith]

Okay, how about present day? Then it could be like a more acrobatic version of Hitman. We could incorporate the story and everything; just change all the names and presto! you've got a new Assassin's Creed game!

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I want to see it take place in the Garden of Eden, thousands of years before recorded history, and play as Adam as he works with Eve and the very first Assassins to steal the Apple of Eden.

 

[nothingdeletemeplease]

It needs to take place in Egypt or Japan...so you can climb the pyramids and what not or you can be a ninja.

 

[technoted]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm well the Christian religion has been a main point of the game so far, so possibly something like Scandanavia around 800-1000 AD, then again Vikings were not really known for being that stealthy so maybe Roman empire during the religious revolt? And if they do do it in WW2, I think it would be more interesting if you were a bad guy, perhaps an SS officer, that way it would at leats be different and not another kill every Nazi game.

(I'm not a Nazi, I just think it would be different)

 

[H-a-v-o-k]

Being a huge english lit fan the whole concept of H.G Wells/Jules Verne sold me on the victorian era. But I had a thought with Jack the Ripper, what if he were an assassin too? Just destroyed in the eyes of the media by the templars? The same nod was givin to John Wilkes Booth in AC2.

 

[Ashhearth]

A Victorian England AC game would be pretty cool but maybe a colonial times one might work to. The only problem would be the gunpowder again.