Played the first one and enjoyed it for what it was. I own the second thanks to the Steam Christmas stocking giveaway but haven't gotten around to opening it because of Ubisoft's PC DRM policies and a general lack of interest in the series.
I do have to say, the protagonist looks absolutely ridiculous in this setting. They were pushing the cowl in the previous games but now it's full out incongruity here.
I'll help you figure it out.
What is more marketable and just overall more interesting? The French and Indian Wars? Or the war that made America?
More interesting? French and Indian wars. I have to say, for me, the American Revolution is just about as drab a setting as you can get. But, then again, I have no patriotic feelings towards the event and it's less interesting than other conflicts because of its saturation in other media.
wow! hated AC1, never bothered with any of the others, despite hearing they were much improved, but i WILL get this. that forest looks incredible and the setting is fantastic and rarely used in gaming. hot damn.
The idea of the gameplay from the first being applied to a wilderness setting does interest me. However, I felt part of the whole Assassin's Creed shtick was the 'social stealth' mechanic (at least that's what they were pushing really hard in the first game, don't know if it carried into the later ones). This guy looks like he belongs as much as a pink elephant at a horse racing convention.
Since when are people complaining about asscreed hoods? nobody said a thing about Altair or Ezio's hood. It doesn't look that much different to me.
That's the problem.
Can't speak for Ezio, but at least Altair's costume fit more with the representation of the clothes in that game. It was a sort of mesh between the Templar invaders and Arabic inhabitants of the region that at least gave the impression Altair could pass as one or the other irregardless of the city he prowled.
This? It looks like someone is trying desperately to transplant that iconic image amongst the blues and reds of colonial and British militants. And there is zero elements of it blending in with any native imagery to even try and compensate for the rumours of his mixed heritage.