Assassin’s Creed III won’t go Team America on you

Just because Assassin’s Creed III is set in America doesn’t mean it’s set in America America. In fact, America wasn’t even America until 1783, and the events of Assassin’s Creed III precede that, and back then, America was basically England.

So we’ll have none of that go-go-Team-America stuff in the game like the end of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Ubisoft has assured everybody. Okay, they didn’t specifically mention that game but I bet they were thinking it.

“At that point it’s not about American or English; it’s about English and English and that’s something we want to be very clear on. It’s not about America Ra Ra it’s about freedom and community and about how people are treated in that kind of a situation. And how they want to find their own identity. I think that’s something that’s universal to anybody,” lead writer Matt Turner told OXM.

That also means not pretending that things like slavery didn’t happen.

“It’s something we’ve been very aware of. Everybody had slaves at that point; the first groups who rallied around emancipation didn’t come around until 1787 – largely driven by Benjamin Franklin funnily enough. That was very much after our game and slavery was maintained in culture,” Turner explained.

“We feel that kind of a subject deserves a certain amount attention because it’s so serious and it needs to be treated with utmost respect. We’re definitely not going to shy away from it in terms of not showing it.”

Assassin’s Creed III is due out in October 2012.