Ubisoft announced some remarkable results today.
Assassin's Creed is now officially the fastest-selling new video game IP in the US, ever. Ubisoft have already shifted over 2.5 million units worldwide on both the PS3 and the Xbox 360.
More facts and figures after the jump, including what the results mean to Ubisoft's financial projections...
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AC3 was released during a turbulent transition period for Ubisoft and the Assassin's Creed series. It ventured into uncharted territory, narratively and mechanically, which caused it to receive mixed reviews. At its core, though, it's a damn good stealth game.
Nope, I hated 3, connar was bland, literally the most flat character in the entire game. Not to mention to myriad of bugs, camera issues, and that annoying thing where he automatically ditches his weapon you payed for for the sake of a cool finishing move forcing you to trek back to your base after almost every encounter just to re-equip your own weapon. It just didn't work as fluidly as the others like 2 and 4
The series peaked at AC3 for me. It’s been my favourite in the series. Connor will always be one of my favourite video game protagonists.
No. Game was BORING. Connor was really dull. Environments, while impressive, because of the geographic location and time period were not really exciting to be in. I would love some kind of game set in there colonial American time period, but a game like AC that back then centered around parkour and vertical traversal really didn't fit those environments.
Nope
There was a lot of issues but mine is how they handled the war
They told us Connor was not going to get involved, that the war was more of a background setting for the real story and it wasn’t going to be one sided
They lied, even the cinematic E3 trailer showed Connor emerge from the Colonist side and slaughter the red coats to get to his target, inspiring the Colonists to fight back
I just thought it would have made more sense lore wise that the red coats were mostly compiled of Assassins fighting the Colonist templars who wanted to take the new world for themselves.
Since the Red coats lost the war, it would then explain how the Templars started to gain the upper hand and how on the future the assassins were mostly killed off and the Templar’s had pretty much taken over everything.
Instead it just felt like they didn’t want to p*** off the American audience
Even Haytham was cool, he should have been an Assassin through and through and should have been the main lead.
I’m one one of those weird people that liked Ass Creed 3, but to be fair I never got around to finishing it.
There are good video game protagonists, and there are bad video game protagonists.
I disagree that max is unlikable. Chloe is infinitely more unlikable in my opinion.
Most of these aren't even that bad. Especially comparing to others like Squall "Whatever" Leonhart, Forspoken's Frey, and the guy from Atomic Heart.
i had to stop reading after the "blatant misogyny" in the Dantes inferno section.
i actually liked Max haha.
the forspoken chick is missing tho
Gamesblow is not going to be stoked :P
Nice to know that for all their bs and bribes reviewers mean jack. AC is an great game. Works flawlessly on the ps3 since the patch and can even be played on the 360. If you got the means pick it up even if only for a rental.... While yoru there maybe pick up Lair if you havnt given it a go yet another way underated game.
Awesome find and incredible news. Glad to see people going and buying this gem instead of listen to some idiot critics.
A lot of people say AC is buggy and repetitive. Aren't all open world games? Wasn't GTA buggy as heck and repetitive? It was but it was also a sandbox and open world game in which the fun is in the immersive experience of living in the city not the conventional mission designs and such.
AC FTW!
.... *sigh* To my fellow PS3 owners. I hate you, stop being stupid >:0 you DO know uncharted and ratchet are out right? Just pointing that out just incase you were unaware.
I didn't expect Assassin's Creed to sell this much in it's entire lifetime, let alone so fast.