June 14th, 2012

Ubisoft explains why Assassin’s Creed 3 will be better on the Wii U

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Assassin’s Creed 3 is a multi-platform title, but the Wii U version has the exclusive features of the GamePad and Ubisoft feels these are significant additions, sharing that the game is:

…by far the biggest Assassin’s Creed we’ve built to date so having a map – a larger map – at your disposal at all times is a big win. It allows you to plan your navigation, see when enemies are nearby so the bigger the map, the better in our universe.

Then, when it comes to combat:

…you have always have access to all your other tools and weapons on the controller itself. So at any point you can very easily switch between your tomahawk and knife or hidden blades and sword without going into a menu.

And there’s also the new “running assassination” move, which is enhanced on the Wii U because of the easier weapon-switching of the GamePad:

You can imagine charging into combat, taking out your first enemy, immediately killing a second with your tomahawk and knife, using a pistol to shoot a third and then switching using the controller to a smoke bomb to affect your escape.

At the very least, it makes me all the more excited for the game. Only time will tell if the implementation of the GamePad makes that much of a difference though.

  • corrently studying 3D programming of engineering cutting machines a fact 2d controls in 3D space is WRONG

    if it doesn’t support wii remote and nunchuck i aint interested,, what stuck out like a sore thumb at e3 was the terrible camera movement and aiming it was so d-pad-ish,, it looked totally out of date, why anyone would want to SCROLL AIM OR SCROLL CAMERA CONTROL IN THIS DAY AND AGE IS BEYOND ME it was like watching the old fashioned camera movement from mario 64 clunk clunk clunk as you move about the level and at the end of the demo as the assassin guy sits in the ships sails the guy playing moves the camera again it was robotic and scroll-y

    if that was mapped and polished to a wii remote there would be zero scrolling and all movement would be natural LIKE THE HUMAN EYE MOVES then ad in combat un armed and weapons again the wm+ or even non wm+ motion and the mouse pointing would bring the game to life and remove that JERKY CAMERA i thought of scrolling the camera or aim after 6 years of wii remote is an insult to real gamers

    its like epic micky everyone expected a natural camera via a wii remote that aids and helps and doesnt mess up instead we got a ps2/3 like camera and it totally ruined epic micky as a wi game and resulted in DUMB CAMERA that ps fans seem to worship that is not core gaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Lucie

    This game looks good.

  • Luciano Fran

    Im definitely picking this one up

  • The_Beeshnu

    2 of my fav video game franchises finally together….
    Assassins Creed and Nintendo