At E3 this year Ubisoft showed a lot of AC3 gameplay, and as everyone is probably well aware it’s set during the American Revolution. There has been a lot of questions, and speculation about who the enemy would be, but as the Americans won the war, it was pretty obvious that they would likely be your allies. However when asked at E3 if the whole game was about killing the british one of the designers firmly stood his ground, stating that Conner would have targets on both sides of the war, and that the enemy is the Templar order and not the British.
However! They then proceeded to show multitudes of gameplay, with Conner doing nothing but killing the British. In recent interviews they have stated that they understand that what they said was not what they showed, and that they showed all they could. That we would have to trust them, but they understand that we are skeptical. That they don’t want to ruin a major plot twist for us. They are a canadian company. They have showed the bad side of civilizations before. Conner is Native American and British. The colonials are going to betray him. Ubisoft is going to show us just how racist America was back then. They might have something where a subset of them are Templars, and they’ll say that things like the trail of tears in the later years were the Colonial Templars trying to wipe out the rest of the Assassins.
I’m about 75% sure of this theory. It would be epic if I was right.
The alternative is them taking the "safe" route, where the paint the Americans as "I can do no wrong!" Which would make me very unhappy because that would so historically inaccurate. The colonists were sneaky, two faced miscreants. It's part of what makes that time period so interesting to me. They rebelled against the British, like a teenager rebelling against there parents. They proceeded to kick the Native Americans off of there land, and slaughter them. If they don't show this, I don't know if I can still like the game. If there aren't shades of gray all over the battlefield, with no clear right and wrong, I just don't know how well I can enjoy it. If they paint the colonist's as the good guys... You get the point.
