Poll: In what time period should Assassin's Creed 3 be set in?

[IamGamer41]

Anywhere as long as I don't have to play a Ezo again.

 

[Ursus Buckler]

Victorian England FTW. He could keep his sword inside his walking cane like Watson from Sherlock Holmes...

 

[mrF00bar]

Assassins creed: Ankh Morpork, would not fit in with the storyline whatsoever, but it would be pretty damn cool.

I totally agree.

 

[SckizoBoy]

The Thirty Year's War. This period was was a time of a true arms race between the countries of Europe. Cannons and firearms were becoming more streamlined for practical battlefield use.
AKA The Holy Roman Empire's Really Bad Day. The bulk of the war took place within the lands that would one day become known as Germany. The populace dealt with soldiers raiding their towns and villages for no other reason than to pillage or find supplies for their own sake.

This could also become a time when the middle-eastern and european bloodlines of Desmond's ancestry could converge, featuring two assassins in the storyline working to the same ends.

And we have a winner. Because, there are loads of potential assassination targets, and plenty of killing that can be done (on both sides):

Albrecht von Wallenstein
Johan tserClaes von Tilly
Gustav Adolf
Franz von Mercy
Marquis de Feuquieres
even HRE Ferdinand II

are the first big names that come to mind (that die within a sensible period of time, that is). Swordplay is still important, but, hell, give the player a musket to go with his sharp pointy death-bringers.

 

[Mike Richards]

Colonial America, during the Revolution

They could have the Free Masons show up as another order separate from the Assassin/Templar war who is now getting drawn into things.

And then of course, you'd also have Ben Franklin building you new equipment. I don't think you can beat that

 

[RedDeadFred]

They present. I don't see how they can end the series unless they set a rather large chunk of the game in the present.

 

[bootz]

i would like to see the fall of constantinople
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople

or troy

 

[Ursus Buckler]

i would like to see the fall of constantinople
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople

That could probably be referenced in AC: Revelations? It's set in Constantinople, after all.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I've always thought that these would be pretty cool:

1. Spain during the Spanish Inquisition
2. Egypt at the end of the Roman Empire (this one ties into Assassin's Creed 2, since one of the assassin statues in the Altair Armor room killed Cleopatra)
3. France during the French Revolution
4. France and England at the end of the Hundred Years war (going back and forth between the 2 countries)

I think the first one would actually make the most sense though, and be the most interesting.

 

[Avayu]

1789-1815. Start with the French Revolution and run all the way through the Napoleonic Wars. It has everything: Ubisoft could take in Paris, London, Vienna and Moscow; famous historical figures are there in abundance (from military leaders like Wellington and Napoleon, to poets such as Byron or Wordsworth, to politicians like Robespierre or Pitt, to Kings and Emperors and Tsars...); it has a unique style all of its own (some of the battle bling from back then is amazing) which could take in clothing, buildings, anything.

Most importantly, it deals with the themes that AC likes: freedom and liberty against despotism and tyranny, with enough murk thrown in to make for a really interesting story.

That's pretty close to my idea, but it may work even better. And seeing how AC2 already told a story spanning a relatively long period, that's no real problem.

 

[Bleedingskye]

It should be in the 80's with new spy/assassin tech coming into play

Either that or the stone age with the very first assassin...thatd be kinda funny...your only weapon is a club

 

[Caulk]

I say the French Revolution.

 

[loadingmikke]

what about a dystopian future/ cyberpunk style future like Transmetropolitan. And let spider jerusalem be the sidekick of a assasin. eer, wait, the other way around.

 

[Maxtro]

Feudal Japan.

I want to be a Ninja.

It can take place right after Revalations or whatever.

Have some Portuguese templars go to Japan and you got yourself a game.

 

[Rex Fallout]

World War 2.

 

[MisterShine]

What I really NEED the series to do is stop using Ezio. For the love of god stop. I was done with that guy about halfway through AssCreed 2. I ploughed through Brotherhood only because I needed to figure out what the hell was going on storywise and I enjoy the gameplay.

If I can get that and any setting that isn't set in Europe or America (USA only, but I am very tired of them) I'm good. The S'Creed series is about taking gamers to places they've never been before, and setting it in Europe is getting off on a technicality because it's a different time period. There are several other continents filled with people who need assassinated!!

 

[samsonguy920]

The Thirty Year's War. This period was was a time of a true arms race between the countries of Europe. Cannons and firearms were becoming more streamlined for practical battlefield use.
AKA The Holy Roman Empire's Really Bad Day. The bulk of the war took place within the lands that would one day become known as Germany. The populace dealt with soldiers raiding their towns and villages for no other reason than to pillage or find supplies for their own sake.

This could also become a time when the middle-eastern and european bloodlines of Desmond's ancestry could converge, featuring two assassins in the storyline working to the same ends.

And we have a winner. Because, there are loads of potential assassination targets, and plenty of killing that can be done (on both sides):

Albrecht von Wallenstein
Johan tserClaes von Tilly
Gustav Adolf
Franz von Mercy
Marquis de Feuquieres
even HRE Ferdinand II

are the first big names that come to mind (that die within a sensible period of time, that is). Swordplay is still important, but, hell, give the player a musket to go with his sharp pointy death-bringers.

Just remember a musket is not a sniper's tool. No rifling along with using lead balls for bullets makes for crappy accuracy. But assassins are more for upclose and personal, anyway. I wouldn't mind seeing longbows incorporated, all the same. If the assassin doesn't want to be encumbered, can always take an archer's during the mission. Would like to see that kind of resourcefulness included.

 

[samsonguy920]

i would like to see the fall of constantinople
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople

That could probably be referenced in AC: Revelations? It's set in Constantinople, after all.

1451 is the year you want to watch for, then. That is the year the Ottoman Empire began its siege that ended with Constantinople's and the Byzantine Empire's end in 1453.