Assassin's Creed 3 on Wii U

Assassin's Creed is my favorite series. Period. It's got everything you want from a good game and then some. Its story is spectacular and has great twists, you find yourself really caring about all the characters, who are written very realistically, and the art direction is spectacular. I once brought Assassin's Creed 2 into an art history class so I could walk Ezio around and the professor describe Venice and Florence how they would have looked like back in the day. This series really is that realistic and accurate.

I've been psyched for this series since the very beginning. Before the beginning in fact. I fell in love with the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time trilogy because of the great music and clever acrobatics and climbing based puzzles. When I heard that Ubisoft was going to incorporate that into a new game for the PS3 era that was not only more realistic but was also set during the Crusades. THE CRUSADES! A real world historical event that was not only during a point in history that rarely gets reinterpreted in the modern world, but is, and was, very controversial and ties in to the social and military unrest of the current times. It also had a lot to say about religion, politics, and how history is recorded. Wow, Ubisoft is showing the world that they have balls! It's still my opinion that the game only got an M rating because of all the religious themes, not because of the blood and violence. This first one has as much as the Uncharted series.

I am of course talking about the first Assassin's Creed, where you play as Altair. A lot of people say this game is boring, and it is in a way, that nothing really happens and it's repetetive. I take it more like its subtle, because the events of this game take place over a couple weeks, so the difficulty setting gets harder because the cities keep getting more and more on edge. And you meet King Richard the Lionheart! This was the first of many cool historical figures you meet in the series.

In the next couple, which I like to think of as the Assassin's Creed 2 trilogy, you play as Ezio Auditore da Firenze throughout the majority of his life. I'm not going to go into detail about why these games are awesome. Read the chapter in your European History book about the Italian Renaissance and you'll know why these games are so awesome.

So, of course, I, and pretty much anyone who's into video games, are super stoked for Assassin's Creed 3. And this game looks like it more than deserves the hype. In 3 you play as Connor, a half English, half Native man who is battling the Templars during the American Revolutionary War. In the initial videos we see him fighting the red coats, aka the British, which I find funny because Assassin's Creed 3 is being developed primarily Ubisoft Montreal. This is because Canada became a different country than the United States specifically because of this war and us Canadians, or Loyalists at the time, wanted to remain part of the British Empire. I do realize that these are the demos shown for the American media, so I'm not really upset we haven't seen Connor fight any blue coats yet. But I do hope before it comes out there's a British/ Canadian video that shows him combating the blue coats.

Anyways, that's all very cool and I can't wait, but the big news of E3 is that not only will Assassin's Creed 3 be available for the Wii U, but it looks just as good as the PS3 or Xbox 360 versions. This is amazingly good news for Nintendo's launch of the Wii U. Basically what this means is that Ubisoft believes this new system to be good enough for their premiere title. It also means that Nintendo, which has had issues with 3rd party developers in the past, is going to make its new system available for the big titles without them having to be substandard to the PS3 or XBox 360 versions. This makes me really excited for the potential of Nintendo first party titles like Zelda or Metroid.

All I know is that I'm going crazy with excitement for Assassin's Creed 3 and I'm counting down the days to when it's released.

Added July 11, 2012: Also, it’s just been announced that Michael Fassbender will not only star in the Assassin’s Creed movie, but he will be producing it as well!!!  My head exploded when I saw that.  My favorite actor in a movie based on my favorite video game, holy crap that’s amazing.  And not only that, it’s going to be independently produced my Fassbender in conjunction with Ubisoft so it’s not going to have some retarded thing in there because of studio mandate!  This just sounds like it’s going to be crazy awesome!

Original story posted by GamingUnion.net