Daveman said:
It's making it damn hard for me to like this game as a Brit. I mean it's saying we're the bad guys pretty damn clearly despite that being less than true ( http://www.cracked.com/article_18442_5-reasons-founding-fathers-were-kind-dicks.html ).
There's definitely some preposterous notion of black and white that's being enforced by this game. The past two Assassins Creed games weren't even remotely based on the conflict of the time and it had you assassinating people on both sides of the war.
I mean I know it's only a game but for a series that accurately represented the cities of the time to the point that it's instantly recognisable to people who've been there, it doesn't seem to care even remotely for an accurate portrayal of the war.
If I may bring my own preposterous notions of black and white to this debate.
Americans make up the majority of the market. Americans cannot handle being told they weren't exactly nice guys and the constant saviours of the world and all its people. Thus, now the game is focusing on American history instead of anything else significant that happened in that period of time (hello French Revolution! Whatup Russo-Turkish War? Oh look it's France versus the entire world!) there won't be a single thing that challenges the idea of the brown haired white middle class American valiantly retaking his homeland from the evil of the British Empire.
It's alright America, we get that there was something interesting happening to you, but the rest of us were dealing with our own stuff, and given the effect that the late 1700s had on you even today, it'd just be nice if you could pay some attention to it, even in a videogame.