Ubisoft wants all of the game's characters to be as realistic as possible

Apr 2, 2012 19:31 GMT  ·  By

More details about Assassin’s Creed III have appeared from Ubisoft, as the developer now highlights the benefits of having a new historical setting, that of the American Revolution, which allows the writers to share more information with players.

The Assassin’s Creed games have delighted fans with lots of historical facts, featuring conflicts like the Crusades as well as other moments like the Italian Renaissance.

Now, with Assassin’s Creed III, Ubisoft wants to share even more information with players who experience the game, largely because there are already lots of details known about the American Revolution.

“One of the cool things about Assassin’s Creed III is that we have so much information this time. In previous games, we were filling in gaps — we knew approximately what happened, or an opinion of what happened, so we had a lot of room to move. But now, we pretty much know where all the Founding Fathers were every day of the Revolution and what they were thinking. They were copious letter writers, so we have all kinds of crazy information to build on,” said Alex Hutchinson, creative director of Assassin’s Creed III.

Ubisoft wants to portray the characters in the most accurate way possible, not only famous ones but also people who played less glamorous roles during the conflict.

“It’s more about finding different angles on these people, things that maybe aren’t in the populist history, things that we can defend. It’s a lot of fun, there are some juicy characters…Pretty much 80 percent of the speaking characters are real people. You’ve heard of Paul Revere and George Washington, but a lot of the secondary characters here you won’t have heard of. If you sit there with Wikipedia open, though, you can look them up,” he added.

Assassin’s Creed games have already portrayed history in an accurate way, while introducing their own Assassins versus Templars conflict, and it seems that the new title will treat the American Revolution in the same way.

Assassin’s Creed III is out at the end of October for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360, while a version for the Nintendo Wii U is also in development.