I think this will go beyond a trilogy with ideas like this.

Please god make it in the Edo period that would be so awesome.

If this happens to AC3 then I'll deviantly have it on my buy list.

That header is hilarious, omg

That'd be cool, but keeping in line with the canon of the game, it'd be hard to have Desmond's ancestry go from the Mideast to Japan.

So, AC3 will be the last Tenchu game?
Not great. As "cool" as some people would think Japan is, the idea of a sneaky ninja has been done so many times it is hardly inventive. Also, I thought the idea of the story was that all the assasins were ancestors of the same person, which would not make any sense in Sakoku times Japan.

Everybody shouldn't take the setting ideas for ACIII seriously until Patrice Desilets says so.

Also a Japanese setting would suck due to them being well ninja and had the shittiest architecture in any civilization.

So... are we ever going to play in the futuristic present timeline as the original AC was kinda leading us towards?

Everybody knows Ancient China was run by the Wu-Tang Clan

Ninjas = sales up by 50% and awesomeness factor up tenfold. The only thing that could make Assasin's Creed sell even more are zombies.

I wanna see it set in WW1, it would be a bit like Velvet Assassin. But good.

Feudal Japan, medieval, WWII, female assassin, rumor, rumor, rumor.

I still want to know if AC2 is any good.

Am I the only one who misses the game being set in the Middle East? I mean, tooling around Jerusalem was one of the coolest things about the first game. It was such a different environment than what we usually see. I've preordered AC2, but the Italy setting doesn't do much for me. Neither does the prospect of feudal Japan for that matter, even though it was expected. I mean, I've seen those places in games before. There's a wealth of titles that take place in Europe and Asia. I wish they had fleshed out the original setting a little further.

I almost sort of wished they never did the Animus thing, and rather had you progressively follow Altair's descendants in following game.

French Revolution! That¡¯s the perfect setting, I¡¯m frustrated that no one from Ubi ever mentioned it. Is French Revolution still a sensitive topic in France?

Feudal Japan would be cool, but that concept about the World War 2 Spy/Assassin would be a million times better.

I think a japanese setting would look interesting and help sell the game in Japan, sinc ethey sometimes dodge western games. The other thing is that it might be interesting to see how it goes up against japanese develop made games in the same setting. Only downside is that japan and ninjas has been done to death in games. I rather see them consider more european settings.

I think better settings would be France during the Hundred Year War (this would be perfect for mercenary stuff between England and France), or Portugal during the age of discovery. If they want to take it back to the middle east, setting it during the last days of Constantinople (what's now known as Turkey) would be rather awesome. Not sure what happened? Use wikipedia.

@Gatsby, whatever you're smoking, you gotta share it.

if the game is set in japan, i think the protagonist must not be japanese. we need to think about Desmond, he doesnt look asian at all and this game is all about his descendents. anyways, the WWII theme would be really amazing, It would be nice if the player was on the neutral side (switzerland style) and fight both sides like the first game.

I understand why Ubisoft would do AC3 in japan, and it kind of relates to history.

There were no foreigners in japan up, until their isolation was broken by traders from the west. To have a western character in japan and make it interesting, I'd expect they'd use the 16th century japan, where foreigners were becoming more regular visitors, due to trading ore metals, which were plentiful because of the volcanic nature of Japan.

On top of that, Rennaisance Europeans admired Japan, due to Marco Polo's reports from there of metals above, so that would all play out nicely in the game, following on from renaissance period AC2.

I also mentioned Constantinople earlier, and its fall in 1453. Its said that its fall in turn helped fuel the rennaisance, with artists, scientist etc who fled the city. I hope Ubisoft add some of this into the game.

Guess I'll add AC2 to my buy list, as I love a bit of history and action.

do you really think the american government and the esrb government lap dogs would allow a game that centers around any american revolution? short and long answer, NO.

nixon instituted the war on drugs because the hippies were having new ideas, protesting wars and pushing a new american revolution, so nixon targeted the american people's constitutional rights and labeled them as criminals.

i would like a fuedal setting but there ain't many tall buildings in that time. the tallest buildings were temples and may have been 3 stories at the most. they do have trees though.

name one then. convince me its been done.

the hippies were a new american revolution. nixon put stop to that. it was a bit off topic i admit.

even so, where are the historically accurate revolution games? or any games that promote revolution against US or US interests? there are games like just cause that do it against what we consider a facist/communist/social state but where are the anti US government games? even dues ex wasn't against a government but against a corporation. it was almost there but not quite.

Badass, I want Japanese setting. I'll take China as a runner up though.

I would love to see one with ninjas. Problem is, ninjas are never seen. The "blending in with the crowd" would have to be cut, or thrown in there with little regard for factual tactics. I'm all for it if I get to use ninja weapons, though. I also hope they look at the possibility of a modern day ex US special special forces or British SAS soldier. And have him rouge and for hire, so the soldier does not have all the weapons of the military so it makes it just another splinter cell. Ultimately, I don't care, as I'm still looking forward to #2.