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Assassin’s Creed 3 on Playstation Vita will be out same day as console version

In addition to some details on the next Gears of War game, the latest edition of Game Informer also has some details on what to expect in the Playstation Vita version of Assassin’s Creed 3.  According to this NeoGaf forum, the Vita version will be set in New Orleans and be shipping on the same date as its console brethren.  More details on the game are below.

  • A female assassin named Aveline will be the main character
  • Its set in the same time period as AC3
  • Ubisoft Sofia is developing
  • Takes place during 1765-1780 in the period between the end of the French and Indian war
  • One of the bullet points is that it’s “true AC gameplay”
  • Will not connect to Desmond
  • Will have “multiplayer specifically tailored to the Vita experience”
  • “The game has been released as a propaganda tool by Abstergo, who want players to experience a gray area of the Assassin/Templar conflict as an assassin rather than a templar”
  • Aveline’s mentor is an escaped slave named Agate, leader of the assassins in New Orleans
  • Wildlife like alligators “wait on the banks of the swamp or hide beneath murky waters”
  • Liberation will also take players across the Gulf into Mexico
  • Large gameplay areas. You can run, climb, fight and explore the entirety of New Orleans without loading a new area.
  • Aveline and Connor will meet in Liberation
  • Use front and rear touch controls to pick-pocket
  • Someone else is using the Animus
  • New weapons include a sugarcane machete, pistols, muskets, grenades