Ubisoft Unveil New Assassin’s Creed 3 Details

Further to GameInformer’s April 2012 Assassin’s Creed 3 cover reveal at the beginning of March, the full details of which can be found on NeoGaf, GamingBolt have a sumptuous platter of fresh AC3 info for your consumption:

• Around 30% of missions will take place in the Frontier.
• Frotiner is 4km² – 1.5 x size of Rome in Assassin’s Creed 2.
• The game has ‘double’ the production capacity of the ‘Ezio Trilogy’.
• Rope Dart weapon is confirmed, allowing for some very brutal tree-based kills.
• Game takes place over 30 year period 1753 – 1783.
• Connor joins the Brotherhood in 1770 – suggests pre-Assassin gameplay.
• Everything in the Frontier is traversable.
• Climbing system based on real-life rock climbing.
• Terrain and weather has a direct effect on Connor – the snow slows you down to no end.
• Revamped control system.
• Assassin’s Creed 3 will be about Connor seeking ‘justice’.
• Connor’s Mohawk village was razed as a child.
• Mohawk villages feature in game
• Simultaneous Motion capture, face-capture and voice over. A first for videogames.
• Vastly improved cloth textures.
• Combat ‘more brutal’ than ever before.
• Bears, wolves, deer and dogs will feature in the game.
• Moving Leaps of Faith now possible.
• Connor will have a least a: tomahawk, knife, bow, musket, hidden blade.
• Wall cover system.
• Bodies/enemies can be used as cover.
• Foliage/bushes used automatically for stealth.
• Greater Animus integration, now fully 3D within the game.
• Emphasis on gameplay being a ‘simulation’ of the past.
• Snow will feature footprints and blood trails of enemies, a core part of gameplay.
• Weather system will feature: sun, rain, fog, snow and ice. Possibly dynamic.
• Weather affects combat, muskets don’t work in rain.
• Greater NPC interaction with player/eachother.
• Revamped crowd AI – NPCs will come much closer to Connor than before.
• Waller T. Patton, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel, as NPC.
• City streets wider than before – historically accurate, creating new urban challenges.
• Building interiors – short-cuts can be taken through some buildings
• Siege of Boston, Battle of Bunker Hill both confirmed as in-game events.

Source: Ubisoft.