Jump around on rooftops and slaughter your foes on the go in Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, coming to the PS Vita.
Most fans of the Assassin’s Creed franchise speculated that there might have been female assassin’s to play as. It would make sense, considering the setup of the franchise: We’re exploring the ancestors of main character Desmond Miles in the previous Assassin’s Creed games, so one of them must have two X chromosomes. Ubisoft seems interested in exploring this idea with the African/French assassin ‘Aveline’ in Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation, though there is no word yet on how she is connected to Miles.
Aveline’s story in Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation takes place in the 18th century, but further south where slavery is the norm. Her father was a French that participated in a relationship with her African mother called a ‘plaçage.’ When the colonization of North America and Canada began in the 18th century, getting brides over to marry the more wealthy nobles were difficult. So they would form temporary relationships with Chinese, Native American, or African slaves to form a family. Sometimes the children from the relationship are loved by the father and raised in the noble lifestyle, and Aveline was one of the lucky ones.
Aveline is capable of seeing New Orleans from both her slavery ancestry and French nobility. She’s a strong and confidant woman, who opposes what slavery does and fights against it. Thanks to her father, she is often shielded from the repercussions that might befall someone of her birth in this time. However, she only learns the ways of an assassin through Agate, and escaped slave and outcast that teaches her the of running from rooftops and using hidden blades.
Unlike the previous games, Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation will let players dress up Aveline in different clothes that can help with the challenges in the game. Being a black woman in New Orleans with blades and the ability to kill white people is a shocking image for the folk, so her ‘assassin’ attire would draw too much attention to her. However if Aveline dressed herself in her servant garb, with torn rags and dirty boots, she can blend in with the slave workers and avoid the guard’s attention. Or Aveline can switch to her Aristocrat dress to signify her wealth, charm and beauty. Here Aveline could charm her way past guards or guarded areas, but she is also vulnerable to the scum residing in the alley ways.
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation will be available exclusively on the PlayStation Vita this October, 2012.
