I was expecting feudal Japan, honestly. The ninja connotations are simply too easy to make for marketing executives.

Oh, my, World War II. How original. I'm all a twitter. Couldn't they go to Greece or Rome or Japan or the FSCKING MOON instead?!

Not sure if I'd want a WWII setting, the FPS genre has already murdered that one way too many times for me.

Dude with AC they could seriously take the game into all kinds of great unexplored eras. Why WWII...again?

A female assassin would be cool. I'm always for more interesting female heroes.

God I hope not. There are so many interesting time periods that haven’t been done to death. What about Victorian England or the start of the industrial revolution.

Wouldn’t mind a female assassin but you know half the missions would revolve around seducing men then killing them.

Good to know that developers are having different points of view of WW2, you know, points of view that aren't in first person.

You know what would be amazing, if it took place in ancient Rome. Although, you wouldn't have massive structures to jump off. What would also be kool if it was in the not-to-distant future. No space marines, something similar to Mirrors edge really. I think that would be kool too.

I was always intrigued by the rumor that the second game was going to take place during the French Revolution. I'd rather see that. The setting would lend itself well to political shenanigans and Paris would be a great setting.

Feudal Japan PLEASE! No more WW2.

Velvet Assassin was a pretty decent game, sure it had major flaws, but the story was excellent and Violette was a great heroine. If the gameplay was better, the greatness of VelVet Assasin would have shown better. VA probably had the best narrative for a WWII game, and broke many of its cliches.

I think AC3 should take place during the French Revolution.

If they follow the proper pattern:

First one in medieval times

Second one during the Rennaissance

So Assassin's Creed the 3rd will be set in Georgian England/Napoleonic Wars

And Assassin's Creed Goes Forth will be set in a trench in WWI

After that they'll talk about doing a 5th one but won't be able to get the cast together.

I would love to assassinate allied generals and stuff. Mix it up a little. Assassinating Hitler? Come on, think outside of the box for once.

Hmmm...yeah, I'd really prefer they do something original. Or at least more original than this. It could still be good, and it obviously wouldn't be a first person shooter...hopefully...but goddamn this conflict is played out.

How about during the French Revolution? It sounds weird, but that would be some new territory, and they could probably make it work. Yeah, I think I'd like to infiltrate a crowded public beheading. I think I'd like that a lot. You'd be taking out members of the Committee of Public Safety or something like that. I don't know, I'm brain storming.

I'm with bluemeep! I was thinking feudal Japan.

How about Ancient Egypt, the Dark Ages, the American Civil War, or the American Revolution? French Revolution, even? Feudal Japan is cool too, but that wouldn't make any sense for why the ancestry goes back to Japan.

Playing as a Gestapo or any kind of historical secret police would be a sort of cool idea actually.

Time period: the French revolution

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Ancient Egypt would be badass.

Personally I'd like to see sone Industrial Revolution type stuff. A lot of interesting weapon possibilities what with all the new technologies at the time.

I'm with Handy on this one - Victorian England or the Industrial Revolution would be amazing. Maybe it's just because I want to use a monocle and cane to assassinate people, but still, the setting and gameplay potential would be brilliant.

UBISOFT are probably just testing the water with this comment, to gauge people reactions. They did listen to the critisms from the first game and have ditched all the repetetiveness, or so they say. It's obvious that the reaction from this is going to be a resounding 'NO', 'NOT ANTOHER WWII GAME, KTHNX'. So listen to people UBISOFT, we have spoken.

I'm only for it if you play as a Nazi assassin. If it's an American, British, French, or even a Russian assassin, then no. Just no. Not enough Nazi protagonists. Why not set it during WWI? If they set it during WWI, everyone would be giving it praise for being original because not many games outside flight simulators are set during WWI. I mean WWI was an important war too! Where's the love for WWI?

WWII would definitely work, especially when we're talking about third-person view and a woman protagonist. The very first comment mentioned Feudal Japan. So why not take a bit from these two concepts and make it on after-WWII Japan? That would be good, I think.

I entirely agree Oncomouse,

Assassin's creed during the french revolution in Paris could be tons of fun. I'm not against a central/north Europe focus, but I'm so tired of playing fictions in the World War II era, it might be enough to turn me away. An American Revolution setting could be cool too. Just, not World War II please.

Female Assassin? Kristen Bell, perhaps? Very yes!

WWII? Very no.

you know what all your problems are... your not thinking dark enough so far we've had an semi gloomy time period then we had the exuberant renaissance... we need to take it up a notch and go back to the Spanish Inquisition. It's really dark and easily linkable to the Templars... i do strongly agree that anything is better than WWII and that the French revolution is a fresh and creative idea I just feel it needs to be darker. As it goes for feudal Japan I think it's not that original and we need something unexpected and a time period that has never been used before for example: the 3rd crusades, the renaissance, Spanish Inquisition, the French revolution, Napoleonic wars, The Trojan war (ancient Greece), or the converting of the Scandinavian pagan's (Viking or Norse time.) The basic fact that Assassin's creed 3 need's to avoid is using automatic fire arms or any extent of a gun (wasn't to fond of it in the 2nd one) lastly the assassin's creed franchise shouldn't be limited to the amount of installments it has. If they can keep a new and fresh story line each game I'll buy all of them. Why must it only be a trilogy? Spanish Inquisition all the way!