Thu, Dec 13, 2012 | 14:26 GMT
Assassin’s Creed 3 moves 7 million worldwide
Ubisoft has announced that Assassin’s Creed 3 is the “fastest-selling game in the company’s history,” with total sell-through topping the 7 million mark worldwide in one month of release.
“We are delighted with the performance of Assassin’s Creed III this Christmas,” said Rob Cooper, Ubisoft UK’s managing director. “This is a beautiful and epic game of exceptional quality and we’re pleased that our fans have responded so well to the brand new universe, storyline and game experience.”
Ubisoft also drops a few gameplay statistics for the title: in solo missions players have accumulated over 82 centuries of game time and committed more than 3 billion assassinations.
In multiplayer, twice as many players have played the mode compared to Assassin’s Creed Revelations. To date, over 250 million assassinations have been performed in over 5 billion multiplayer sessions.
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Posted in: Action, Adventure, PC, PS3, Ubisoft, Xbox 360
Tags: AC3, assassin's creed 3, assassin's creed III
28 comments
#1
loveaya
12/12/12, 5:19 pm
Ubisoft has almost ignored Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell since years just for Assassin’s Creed.
#2
Ireland Michael
12/12/12, 5:22 pm
They stopped making Prince of Persia because Prince of Persia stopped making money.
#3
OlderGamer
12/12/12, 5:24 pm
I can’t wait to rip into my WiiU copy…have to wait for Xmass day tho. *grumble grumble
#4
manamana
12/12/12, 5:24 pm
Praise yourself kids, you are getting AC on a yearly basis for the next ten years to come …
#5
YoungZer0
12/12/12, 5:40 pm
Funny, because Assassins Creed 3 was also shipped with 7 Million bugs.
#6
AHA-Lambda
12/12/12, 6:04 pm
unfortunately it’s the worst one >_>
#7
rapsound
12/12/12, 6:16 pm
DAMN. I’ve never bought any AC since they abandoned PoP series. And I’ll never buy one. Could be 7 mln and one. Ubi, you’ve had your chance :/
#8
YoungZer0
12/12/12, 6:34 pm
@6: That would be Brotherhood.
#9
Sadismek
12/12/12, 6:45 pm
@8 Agreed.
I really liked Assassin’s Creed III, though it seems I’m the only one. Meh…
#10
Maximum Payne
12/12/12, 6:48 pm
@8 You want to say Revelations was better then Brotherhood :O
#11
Sadismek
12/12/12, 6:58 pm
@10 It was. At least Revelations knew what it wanted to be, and had a scope. Brotherhood was a mess which noone fully understood. Not wanted and not needed.
#12
Ireland Michael
12/12/12, 7:01 pm
@9 No, whiney gamers are just a vocal minority. Everyone else is too busy enjoying the game.
#13
YoungZer0
12/12/12, 7:05 pm
@12: That’s possible?
#14
Sadismek
12/12/12, 7:08 pm
@12 Hah, good to know
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#15
Ireland Michael
12/12/12, 7:14 pm
@13 Personally it’s one of favourite games of the year, and I think it’s the best title in the series to date.
#16
YoungZer0
12/12/12, 7:51 pm
@15: Really? I thought it was pretty bad. It didn’t do too many new things, the trading was bad, the full synch is bad, the bugs made me redo every mission at least twice because i couldn’t accept playing the game without full synch completion. The story missions felt extremely restricted, especially if you consider the games theme about freedom. It wasn’t critical enough to make any impact. The main character Connor is a bore-fast without a personality.
Loved the boats missions though, really intense, actually yelled out in joy, instead of frustration.
#17
DSB
12/12/12, 7:51 pm
I came across this:
http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/12/07/seven-ways-assassins-creed-is-better-on-the-vita/
It sounds to me like the AC team is holding out on us by constantly taking the safest possible route.
If Assassins Creed actually dared to add some interesting characters and dared to make you feel like a badass assassin (ie one that doesn’t hate what he/she does) instead of just a naive timetravelling bartender from the midwest, it could be an amazing series.
#18
Stephany Nunneley
12/12/12, 8:05 pm
“a naive timetravelling bartender from the midwest…” –
#19
YoungZer0
12/12/12, 8:46 pm
@17: Yeah, that’s bothers me about the series, it’s so vanilla that i get bored. I couldn’t have cared any less about both stories of the game. Oh Connor gets betrayed, guess you kind of deserve that. Oh he kind of gets betrayed again, hm guess you kind of deserve that. Oh Desmond- ah, who cares about Desmond and the actual story of Assassin’s Creed?
They never go anywhere, so afraid of offending people.
#20
Cobra951
12/12/12, 8:46 pm
@9:
Not by me. I like Brotherhood. It doesn’t screw up the formula with idiotic tower defense or go completely off the old-world medieval vibe into the American revolution.
Prince of Persia didn’t die. It evolved into AC. Read up on that history a bit. I think IGN did a piece on it, somewhere.
#21
YoungZer0
12/12/12, 9:04 pm
@20: But brotherhood had a storyline that dragged on forever and probably the shittiest art-direction of the whole series. It also introduced us to Full-Synchronization.
#22
Erthazus
12/12/12, 9:26 pm
Assassins Creed 3 is fucking horrible.
Start of the game: Linear bullshit.
2 hours later:
Boring and the same shitty platforming mechanics with Auto-attack and stupid AI. Also, American setting does not work with this game compared to the previous games.
In my opinion this game could be good if it had 1 year of polish. Game is pretty much not done to be honest. It’s full of bugs, glitches and gameplay issues.
But one thing that is better then in other games: Better script, writing and fantastic director for this game. Everything else is horrible as F. Someone who designed this thing hate his own life.
*Back to world Of warcraft raiding*
#23
YoungZer0
12/12/12, 9:51 pm
Fantastic director? What’s that supposed to mean? You do know that the game wouldn’t be in the shape it is if it was a fantastic director, right?
#24
Erthazus
12/12/12, 10:13 pm
@23, I’m talking about cut-scenes, scripts in the game and cinematic stuff. I thought Ubisoft did a good job with it.
#25
YoungZer0
12/12/12, 10:29 pm
That’s the cinematic director, or something like that.
And i really think the the script was bad. The dialogs were boring to say the least.
“Oh, thank god you helped us out Connor.”
“EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE A FREE LIVE.”
“Man this chicken is awesome, what do you think, Connor?”
“EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO A GOOD MEAL.”
Just the flattest personality they could have come up with, little to no character development. The most exciting thing were the arguments between Connor and his Mentor, some actual personality accidently flowed through there.
And the only scene i remember is Connor sitting on a cliff and telling Washington “You reap what you sow.” that was good.
#26
Cobra951
12/12/12, 11:09 pm
@21:
I’m not sure what you mean by art direction. Do you mean the look of Brotherhood? It’s consistent with the other entries in the series, which is to say it looks spectacular most of the time. Everyone takes it for granted now, but what goes on in AC games would have been considered miraculous a few years ago. And it’s Rome, a huge lot of it. I love the sandbox, and that’s why I love these games, along with my abilities within it. The story is secondary, not that I have a problem with it either.
Full synchronization–how’s that an issue? I like being able to progress without having one little thing stop my progress dead and make me repeat the same sequence of events until I do everything just right. I can always go back later and try to do better. What’s wrong with that? Is there something else I’m missing here?
#27
YoungZer0
12/12/12, 11:27 pm
@28: Example Ezios clothes, they just threw in more shit on him, instead of less. It looks ridiculous, he wearing way too much, his agility should suffer from it. And Full Synch is problematic, because it TELLS YOU how to play the game. That’s completely counter productive.
The game is basically saying: “I’m really happy for ya and Imma let you finish, but that’s not the way i want you to play.”
The gameplay and the level layouts are limited enough, they shouldn’t enforce it even more.
#28
rapsound
13/12/12, 3:24 pm
@20 OH COME ON
It’s like Pikachu envolving into Raichu
EVERYONE LOVES PIKACHU