The Hidden Blade Assassin's Creed in Depth

That looks quite cool actually but not very believable

Completely fake, yet, thumbs up for great artwork!

Thumbs up indeed. It is a very nice piece of work

Hopefully we'll know more about the real ACIII in May when Ubisoft release their full-year earnings report. That's according to Corey May anyway

Or E3 in like two months, also that's when the next GTA trailer drops...

I'm seriously hoping its China. What a beautiful setting for an Assassin's Creed game. Not France, there would be too many guns.

True, true. We'll definitely know more in the next 1-3 months!

And GTA...

Yeah, I hate the French. I joke, I joke! But I do agree that China would be way cooler. Although it's obviously a very different time period, the French Revolution setting of Europe (obviously) would seem to similar to Renaissance Italy, IMO. I'm still holding out for Egypt but it's looking unikely

Another thing - I know there has been lots of discussion about this already but do you think ACIII be completely/mostly set in the modern day with Desmond?

Jean-Francois Boivin of Ubisoft stated that each numbered title in the franchise will introduce a new lead character and a new setting, suggesting that ACIII will have a new ancestor, but he also said that it will focus on the Assassins' quest to prevent the end of the world in 2012 and their race against time to find temples built by "those who came before". This makes me think that there'll be a new ancestor but with lots more from Desmond. I prefer playing as an ancestor but if they develop Desmond a bit more, that'll be cool

Ancient China would be fantastic, but I'm hoping that since we're expecting to have to find the multiple hidden temples that the game will travel over multiple regions and continents. This could mean that they'll introduce multiple ancestors instead of focusing on just one. If they're planning on this being the series finale, then that would definitely be the way to go, in my opinion.

Rio de Janiero! Rio de Janiero! Please! They use ski gondolas as public transport.

You mean delta wings right? And yes. Rio de Janeiro would just be awesome. Although I would have a minor issue with how Desmond is safely hoping around the favela's roofs without any mobster trying to shoot him down.

Slums would be excellent for free-running. If navigating rooftops in Brazil was easy in Modern Warfare 2 imagine how fun it would be in AC3.

Don't want to see it in this title though. Maybe AC4 if it exists, but right now, I want China, and all signs point towards there.

South America could be entertaining. If they incorporated the South American drug cartels of the past century, with notable drug kingpins being the main villains. This could be realistic given that the crystal skulls and other pieces of eden are believed to be located in South America.

Kind of ironic now uh?.

If you like irony then you should avoid these comments by JoeyFogey:
December 21, 2010
December 29, 2011
February 16, 2012

You should also stay away from my comment of April 7, 2010.

Omigawd I'm psychic...

I like the idea of china, but if I had to pick a place (hypothetically if AC:4 was already in the making) then I'd choose some part of northern canada, but I could see them just as easily using the colder parts of europe (revelations?) so, I don't know. Maybe Vietnam. I'd love to see 1970's Assassins, sneaking through jungle terrain but there's probably not enough well-known or historic figures there...but I could be wrong.