Assassin’s Creed III game director Alex Hutchinson has been rather outspoken in the last week. This time, his remarks aren’t controversial. Talking about the upcoming game’s newly-announced naval battles, he suggests the team underestimated how important sea combat could be for the franchise.
directly to the surrender of the British in the American Revolution,”
explains Hutchinson.”So it was part of the history of the time and the history of the Revolution. And once we got that we thought, well it’s really something we should do. And when we looked into it we realised too that no one had done third-person action-adventure sailing, you know in this period.
“So we’re like, great, it’s brand new; it’s probably too risky to do as it’s own game. Although now I think it’s been successful enough that we probably underestimated it. But it felt like an appropriate and exciting risk to take.”
Assassin’s Creed III is set to release on the Xbox 360 and PS3 on October 30th in North America, followed on October 31st in Europe. The PC version will also arrive a day early in America, and is set to land on November 20th, closely-followed by a November 31st release in Europe.
