I gotta say, the way they've woven the AC storyline into the beginning of the American Revolution is....kinda hilariously bad. The body count at the Boston Tea Party was not ~70 Redcoats, viciously murdered by a Tomahawk to the face. Pretty sure you can't hand wave that bit of Assassin handiwork. The need to be Tom Hanks-like in his involvement in pretty much everything, while entertaining, does it make pretty absurd to have Connor murder-machineing his way to the birth of a new nation. AC has never really tried to stay truthful to history in any way, but they've always tried to weave it in so it's at least possibly? explicable. Maybe because this is my own history that I find it more absurd than Ezio and the Renaissance history.
That said, I think there's something subversive going on. Maybe it's just buggy/strange cut scenes. But in the closing cutscene of the Boston Tea Party mission, off to the side, I saw a lot of citizens down in the fetal position, whimpering and cowering and begging not to be killed. They were still there after the end of the mission and I could walk around again. I can't really blame them. They just came for a good riot and a harbor-sized cup of tea. Instead they got Connor doing things with a Tomahawk that...well....let's just say someone watched a lot of Last of the Mohicans and took notes on axe-murder.
Another note on this game. It's got kinda sloppy audio too. It seems like you can only really hear one conversation at a time. Which might sound good, until you're standing around town cryers doing their animations and hearing nothing. It's not that the audio cuts out or anything. It's just only plays sounds on a couple channels it seems. Which while the game looks like, as far as walking around and enjoying things, it's not quite as atmospheric as other games. There's less babble and general city noise.
Author
Topic: Assassin's Creed 3 (Read 6170 times)