Assassin's Creed III
Assassin's Creed III is an open-world action-adventure game set primarily in 18th-century Colonial America during the American Revolution. Players control two characters across the story: Haytham Kenway, a…
Assassin's Creed III is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 30 October 2012 on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 22 hrs to finish.
What Assassin's Creed III is
Assassin's Creed III is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2012. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on AnvilNext. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In 1754, British Templar Haytham Kenway travels to the American colonies to locate an ancient temple for his Order. He recruits allies and falls in love with a Mohawk woman named Kaniehti:io while eliminating a rogue associate. Years later, their son Ratonhnhaké:ton witnesses his mother's death during an attack on their village and grows up to become the Assassin known as Connor, trained by the retired Assassin Achilles Davenport. Connor is drawn into the American Revolution as he hunts down the Colonial Templars, who include his own father. Over the course of two decades, Connor eliminates Haytham's allies, uncovers that his mother's death was ordered by George Washington rather than the…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 44 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series
Assassin's Creed III is the 39th of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed III: Liberation in 2012. Its critic score of 81 is 6 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe Edition at 96.
How it was received
Assassin's Creed III holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 1,518 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 22 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 67.7 hrs, roughly 3.1 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.60 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo E8200 or 2.60 GHz AMD Athlon™ II X4 620, 2 GB of RAM and 512 MB DirectX® 10—compliant with Shader Model 4.0 or higher (see supported list)*. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 17GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Assassin's Creed III launched on 30 October 2012, within three weeks of Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Halo 4. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Halo 4.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Assassin's Creed III yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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