It’ll take you a few hours to unlock hunting, but you can expect to spend a fair amount of time running around killing animals with Connor. Lions, and tigers, and bears…well, bears, at any rate. Guns and rifles here take a substantial amount of time to reload, but they’re often going to be the deadliest weapons available to you.

Guns, guns, guns! The 18th century features far more firepower than did Ezio’s Italy, and as such you’re going to have to deal with quite a few more enemies who’ll be lining up shots on Connor, but Connor can use a variety of firearms himself.

Handy if you find yourself without time to reload your pistol just run over a musket, grab it, and keep moving. Likewise, you can now pick weapons up off the ground in the middle of running.

You’re now able to perform stealth assassinations without slowing down to play through the whole animation.

It won’t matter too much, as you’ll spend very little of your time fighting on rooftops this time around, but it’s still sad to see it go. In previous games, it was a simple matter to grab hold of your enemy and throw them off rooftops, but ACIII largely does away with the physical wrestling aspects of the combat system. This will take a bit of time to get used to, but should become second nature as you play. In previous games, you’d have to target an opponent and click your left trigger to lock onto them here you simply get close and wait for them to become highlighted, then start swinging away.

Combat no longer requires you to manually lock onto opponents.

Here are some basic tips to help you navigate some of ACIII’s new features.Īssassin’s Creed III sets itself apart in a number of ways from the previous games. So, without further ado, let’s start the process of kicking the Redcoats straight off the continent, shall we? We’ll offer up tips and tricks as to how to get through the toughest missions in the game, and there’ll be plenty of video for you to watch when you need help the most. There are a lot of side tasks and collectibles to find, but our goal here is to guide you through the game’s main missions while preferably completing all of their optional objectives, as well. GameSpot’s Game Guide to Assassin’s Creed III is intended to help you complete Connor’s journey. It’s an epic trip to an era that’s not often visited in big-budget gaming, and seems sure stand alongside Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood as a fan-favorite entry into the franchise.

His journey will see him travel up and down the East Coast, fighting the British, rubbing up against various Founding Fathers, and killing a whole lot of people as he attempts to fend off the plots of the Templars and save his people from their predations. Now that the stories of Altair Ibn-La’Ahad and Ezio Auditore seem to have come to an end, Assassin’s Creed III sees you picking up the mantle of Connor Kenway, a young Native American Assassin who sees himself swept up in the events of the American Revolutionary War.

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