Leaked Assassin’s Creed III artwork reveals the game’s setting

Looks like internet-based speculation might’ve been onto something this time – following last week’s rumours that Assassin’s Creed III would be set in the American Revolution, leaked artwork from two different sources now looks to confirm all of that.

The first is a promo image obtained by Kotaku from a Best Buy employee, showing what looks like a Native American kitted out in a pimpin’ white version of 18th century military gear, and brandishing a tomahawk and a flintlock pistol with the original American Revolution’s “Betsy Ross” flag in the background. It really couldn’t be much more specific.

The other image, mistakenly published on Game Informer’s website and later yanked, is an, uh, “enhanced” version of Emanual Leutze’s 1851 painting “Washington Crosses the Delaware” (depicting an event from – yes, you guessed it! – the American Revolutionary war), now also featuring the same Native American standing behind Washington and pointing ahead to whatever is on the other side of the river.

All we’re waiting on now is Ubisoft’s official “Oh, you guys” announcement.

Sources: Kotaku, and Kotaku again