Revelations about Revelations

Got my new Game Informer yesterday and the AC: Revelations article definitely has me excited. Here is my quick recap of the article. I’ll Try and get Scans up later



- This will be the biggest AC yet! If you thought Rome was huge in Brotherhood, this is supposed to slightly dwarf that.

- Besides Ubi Montreal who has handled all the entire series they had to enlist the help of Ubi France, Ubi Quebec, Ubi Sweden, Ubi Singapore, and Ubi Bucharest in Romania. Hopefully a big team means big things

- Constantinople is the setting during the Ottoman Empire

- Constantinople is split into a few districts: Constantin, Beyazid, Imperial, Galata, Cappadocia, and Masyaf returns! (AC: 1)

- Important characters you will meet: Suleiman (in history becomes Suleiman the Magnificent), Ahmet, Sofia Sorto, Manuel Palaeologos

- You will play as Ezio who has gotta be in his 50’s at this point, Altier, and Desmond

- New weapons, most notiably the hook blade will which allow for new ways to free run, climb, and engage in combat

- Small scale crafting system to be introduced, for those of you familiar with collecting the random items that came out of chest with the money in Brotherhood, you will now be able to use those items to craft bombs

- According to Ubi there will be +/- 300 types of bombs you can create using different items, each bomb will have a unique effect, and you can create the ones you like that best fit your play style

- There are now ziplines around the world that you can latch onto with the hook blade to help you traverse roof tops.

- The battle system has been adjusted again, now during combat your bombs, and secondary weapon (gun, throwing knives) will be mapped to their own buttons allowing for interesting combos

- The hook blade can be used to grab enemies when in a fight to start a combo instead of having to wait for them to attack and counter

- You’re assassin’s guild will return! This time you can rank them up to level 15 Master Assassin instead of level 10 Assassin

- There are Dens similar to the Borgia Towers that will need to be over taken in order to upgrade areas and establish hideouts for you and your assassin’s

- Different from the Borgia towers, once you capture a den at any given time the templars may try to take it back, you will have to defend it to keep your strong hold on the area.

- Side missions will occur within the world and flow more fluidly, you may be attacked while roaming, someone may scream for help when you walk by etc. You can choose to ignore and continue on or engage and do the side mission

- Multiplayer will be adjusted and made more robust, new modes, character models, faster match making, more customization. More of a storyline given to the multiplayer. They made it sound like there may be a mode based around missions like the single player so it sounds like co-op to me which would be a WIN!

- This will be the end of Ezio’s journey. Ubi promises to answer lingering questions i.e. closing out Altiers story, bringing Ezio’z journey to an end, explaining the ending of Brotherhood etc.



- Basic Plot revolves around Ezio taking a journey back to Masyaf to study more on Altier and decide if he made the right choices in life, he is basically soul searching, upon his return he finds Masyaf over run by templars. He finds out there is something hidden in Masyaf that the templars are trying to obtain. This object will give the templars the power to defeat the assassins so of course he goes on a journey to get to it first. There are 6 keys to open the secret location, 5 of which are hidden in Constantinople, and one the templars have already secured. Ezio has to find the 5 and of course learn who is keeping the 6th and obtain it as well. Interesting enough these keys will kind of act as an animus inside the animus. This will lead to the Altier parts of the game which will bring more answers to the cliffhangers we were left with in AC:1, and also help Ezio understand more about himself.



- *SPOILER ALERT* If you have not finished Brotherhood STOP!!! I will be vague as possible here…..



- Playing as Desmond will be based upon the state he ended the last game in. His levels you will traverse his subconscious and also explore what is being called the “ black room”, its similar to the all white room you are placed in during loading screens. Its said to think of this as him going into safe mode after the way Brotherhood ended. Going through his subconscious and solving puzzle will be key to bringing him up to speed from where he left off in Brotherhood lol



I am sure there are a few details I missed as it was big article but these are the key points. I will read again and update with any information I feel fans of the series will be interested in that I may have by passed. Assassin’s Creed Revelations is due out this November.

Source: http://www.thegamerstudio.com/upload/entry.php?43-Revelations-about-Revelations